News & Resources
Eco Attractions Meeting - Jan 2023
Our members came together in January with site visits to Earth Trust and The Living Rainforest. We welcomed guest speakers from Zellar, an app that helps companies map their sustainable journey and Youth Environmental Service whose mission is to give every young person a year in green work. We ran an education panel with specialists working on the National Education Climate Strategy and Initial Training Educators Framework. A big thank you to Earth Trust and The Living Rainforest for hosting us. Our next meeting is at The Centre for Alternative Technology and National Botanic Garden of Wales and we will be celebrating 10 years.
Good Travel
We are delighted to have completed the first phase of our Good Travel project to research how visitors travel to our eco attractions and what incentives visitors may consider adopting if on offer. We had a staggering 3000 responses from the public and are looking forward to piloting some of the suggestions. Thank you to Foundation of Integrated Transport for funding the first phase of this project.
Good Travel
We are delighted to have completed the first phase of our Good Travel project to research how visitors travel to our eco attractions and what incentives visitors may consider adopting if on offer. We had a staggering 3000 responses from the public and are looking forward to piloting some of the suggestions. Thank you to Foundation of Integrated Transport for funding the first phase of this project.
Eco Attractions Meeting - June 2022
Delighted to be back together again for the first time since January 2022. Our meeting was hosted by Pensthorpe and Holkham in Norfolk. We ran workshops on diversity and inclusion, sustainable energy opportunities for our eco attractions. We also welcomed guest speakers from Countrystyle Recycling and Sustainable Wine Solutions. A big thank you to Pensthorpe and Holkham for hosting us. Our next meeting will be held at Earth Trust and The Living Rainforest.
Project Pollinate Competition Launched - 1st July 2019
We are delighted to launch #projectpollinate2019 a competition for children, across the UK this summer, to build fabulous #pollinatorpalaces and help spread the word about how important it is to protect our #pollinators.
Our members are working together and running some amazing events at their eco attractions to support this competition. Please follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
Eco Attractions AGM - 25th June 2019
Our members came together this month for our annual AGM/meeting and site visits to The Eden Project and The Lost Garden of Heligan. We were spoilt with a wonderful evening of food in The Eden Project Mediterranean Biome followed by 100th Eden Session celebrations and a mesmerising tour the next day. Our members were buzzing with ideas and we would like to say a big thank you to The Eden Project for hosting us and The Lost Gardens of Heligan for showing us around their magical site.
Congratulations Plan Plastic winners
Ten innovative projects, out of 150 applications, have been chosen by The Waitrose & Partners Plan Plastic: The Million Pound Challenge. This fund aims to reduce the amount of unnecessary plastic used by tackling littered plastic. Although our application for reducing plastics in gardening was not selected we wish everyone great success in developing innovative plastic reducing projects and look forward to hearing more. Details of our application can be found online.
Resources
Resources
We are here to help you raise environmental awareness, promote your attractions and increase your visitor numbers. Please find some useful links below, more coming soon.
Project Pollinate
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The Centre for Alternative Technology - Pollinators at home survey
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales - Butterfly, Bee, Hoverfly and Moth ID Sheets
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales - Gardening for Pollinators online booklet
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales - Simple butterfly feeder activity sheet
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales - Summer Plants for Pollinators booklet
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales - Build your own bee hotel
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales - pollinator friendly gardening
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales - how to make bee hotels
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South London Botanical Institute pollination and dissecting a flower learning resources
You can search on Instagram, Pinterest using tags such as #bughotel/ #beehotel/ #beehouses/ #bughouse/ #pollinatorpalace
Health & Wellbeing
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Interpretation
Outdoor Learning
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Forest School training
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Members Sustainability
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Greener Lifestyle
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