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The David Bellamy Blooming Marvellous Pledge for Nature launched back in 2021 and is a great way for holiday parks to show off their green credentials.

Last year we achieved our “Pollinator Patch” badge.  This year we have taken on the “Home Sweet Home” challenge where we plan to install throughout the park bird boxes; bat boxes; more bug and bee hotels; feeding stations for birds and squirrels; hedgehog houses; and insect stacks to help animals across our park thrive and provide an area of shelter.

So many of you, very kindly, got involved with our nature pledge last year and, if anyone would like to join in with our mission this year, there are plenty of opportunities to do so:

Build your Own Bug Hotel or Insect Stack

Attached is a handy little leaflet with information on how you can make your very own Bug Hotel and Insect Stack – it is easier than you think! For making your insect stack, all you will need is some sticks and twigs and some string! A great, fun activity for our young Sandgreener’s to get involved in!

Bird Feeding Stations

If you fancy turning your hand to make your own bird feeding station at Sandgreen, there is a leaflet attached with easy-to-follow instructions on how to make a “Bird Food Cake” or a recycled bird feeder. Another great activity for the kids!

Please do send us photographs of your masterpieces once done!

Sponsor your very own Bird or Bat Box

We have made our own bird boxes and bat boxes and will be placing these throughout the park. If you would like to sponsor a bird or bat box at Sandgreen – please let us know. You can sponsor a box for £15 and you will get your name and pitch number engraved on a plaque on the box.

We will keep you updated on our Pledge for Nature progress throughout the year.

Here at Sandgreen, we do everything we can to have as little environmental impact as possible.  It is important to us that, as a business, we help in any way we can to make the future brighter and take positive steps for the planet.  We are always trying to do more and constantly looking for new ideas.

Back in 2022, we partnered up with Play it Green who employ a 3 Step Solution to Climate Change: REDUCE carbon footprints; REPAIR the planet and rebalance carbon footprints by planting trees; and REGIVE 10% of all revenues to a good cause.

Over and above this, this year we have set a goal to plant 60 new trees at Sandgreen! 

Keep a check on our blog page for updates on our progress with this.

As you know, we have been taking part in the David Bellamy Blooming Marvellous Pledge for Nature this year and accepted the Pollinator Patch Challenge for 2022. 

We are delighted to announce, after lots of hard work throughout the season, we have completed our challenge and earned ourselves our Pollinator Patch badge!

As we continue to be as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible, we are delighted to introduce our brand new fully electric Club Car to Sandgreen Caravan Park.

This is the first in our fleet of electric site vehicles and helps our team get around the park without using diesel or petrol powered vehicles, meaning it reduces vehicle emissions on the park.

The David Bellamy Blooming Marvellous Pledge for Nature launched last year and represents an opportunity for holiday parks to show off their green credentials. It’s named after the late botanist and environmental campaigner, who worked tirelessly to get people out into the countryside and enjoy nature.

Every year, the initiative will release a series of challenges and ask the parks involved to pick one to focus their efforts on.  This year, we have chosen to accept the “Pollinator Patch” challenge where we need to create areas where bees, butterflies, and other insects can get food.  We will be working with this throughout the 2022 season.

So far this year we have: planted some beautiful hanging baskets around the front of our office with bee-friendly and pollinating plants; installed a Bug Hotel in the Buddleia bed next to the reception building; created a wildflower rockery area next to the sales showground as a place where bees, butterflies and other insects can get plenty of food; planted a lovely little Willow tree across from the office to help us with our green credentials; maintained long grassy areas to provide a food source for bees and insects and encourage pollination; maintained the Buddleia bank at the side of the office allowing it to grow and flower naturally throughout the year to allow as much time for butterflies and other insects to pollinate. 

We will be creating a "Sandgreen Nature Trail Bingo" card for the children, and adults, of Sandgreen to take part in over the summer holidays. This is a great, fun way for the children to get involved in our Pollinator Patch work and learn, recognise and appreciate the many different species and habitats we have at Sandgreen Caravan Park.

Sandgreen Sanctuaries – we would love for our customers to create their own little sanctuary for bees, butterflies, and insects to get food throughout the year. This could be done by planting up some pots on your deck with pollinating plants, or, you could buy or build your very own “Bug Hotel” to go on your decking.  We have had many customers create their own bug hotels at Sandgreen this year, which is great.

Thank you to everyone who is helping us on our Pollinator Patch mission this year!

As part of our partnership with Play it Green, we have chosen to support Sea Shepherd UK and will donate 10% of our annual Play it Green subscription fee to Sea Shepherd UK.

Sea Shepherd UK is a registered marine conservation charity whose primary mission is to end the destruction of habitats and illegal killing of wildlife around the UK's coastline and across the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect marine ecosystems and species. From Sea Shepherd UK’s foundation in 2005 the charity has supported Sea Shepherd’s fleet of conservation vessels on campaigns around the world. Since 2014 they started major campaigns around the UK and to other countries both independently and in cooperation with other Sea Shepherd entities. Sea Shepherd UK has also worked with or assisted UK based charities such as the Cornwall Wildlife Trust (Cornwall Marine and Coastal Code Group), the SSPCA, RSPB Scotland, Fathoms Free, The Seahorse Trust and supporting where they can British Divers Marine Life Rescue.  By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd UK works to ensure their survival for future generations.

You can find out more about Sea Shepherd UK by visiting their website

We have partnered with Play it Green to make our workforce Climate Positive, lower our carbon footprint, and give back to a good cause.  Play it Green is an organisation who employ a 3 Step Solution to Climate Change: REDUCE carbon footprints; REPAIR the planet and rebalance carbon footprints by planting trees; and REGIVE 10% of all revenues to a good cause.

Here at Sandgreen, we do everything we can to have as little environmental impact as possible.  It is important to us that, as a business, we help in any way we can to make the future brighter and take positive steps for the planet. We are always trying to do more and constantly looking for new ideas – signing up to the Climate Positive Workforce scheme with Play it Green was a no-brainer and an excellent, manageable way to rebalance our employee’s carbon footprints, educate our staff on sustainability and help in repairing the planet.

Through our partnership with Play it Green, we are provided with weekly tips and tools to lower our carbon footprint and accelerate our journey to net-zero, while also making an immediate environmental and social impact through the trees we plant.

Enough trees are planted every month to more than rebalance the carbon footprint of our staff’s personal lives and all their work-related travel. This helps lift vulnerable people out of poverty, as they are employed not only to plant but to care for the trees as they grow in developing areas of the world.  Everyone who signs up to Play it Green receive their own webpage called a "Forest Garden".  This shows how many trees we have planted and our resulting carbon offset.  You can track how many trees Sandgreen have planted by following the link below to the Sandgreen Caravan Park Forest Garden.

Through Play it Green’s unique three-step solution to climate change, a tenth of all revenues also go to a good cause. We have chosen to support Sea Shepherd UK; a non-profit marine wildlife conservation organisation working to protect marine life and ecosystems around the world’s coasts.

Here at Sandgreen we do everything we can to have as little environmental impact as possible. We are always trying to do more and constantly looking for new ideas - any suggestions would be welcomed.

Here are some simple steps we employ throughout our every day to help us Go Green!

• The heating is turned off in all our hire fleets units until the morning of arrival.
• The office lights are always turned off when not in use and the office thermostat is turned down.
• We are all about reusing - anything that can be reused, is!
• We print anything we can double sided.
• We use scrap paper whenever we can.
• We have recycling bins on the park for glass, general waste and dry mixed recycling.
• We use energy saving light bulbs in the hire fleet units and office.
• We use OceanHero as our main search engine. For every five searches we make, OceanHero recovers an ocean bound plastic bottle.

This year we will be introducing more areas on Sandgreen for wild flowers to grow like poppies, clamatis and clover.  We are doing this to try to encourage more bumblebees to pollinate.

Bees are some of the hardest working creatures on the plant and becuase of their labours we owe many thanks to this amazing, under appreciated insect.

Our lives and the world as a whole would be totally different if bees did not exist.  Bees are responsible for pollinating about 1/6th of the flowering plant species worldwide and approx 400 different agricultural plants.  Without pollination some plants cannot reproduce.  Without help, our everyday food supply would look much different, at least 1/3rd of our staples we have come to rely on would no longer be available.

Our team at Sandgreen think they deserve a bit of a break!

2020 will see us making a concerted effort to become more environmentally friendly.  We are learning about ways in which Sandgreen can help reduce its carbon footprint and taking small steps to run a greener organisation.   One of the first things we have done is to ensure that all our staff use the Ocean Hero web browser.  We were told about this by Harvey Sutton, Elspeth Sutton's 10 year old son who had carried out research for a school project and discovered the site.  It is really simple to set up and use .

In a nutshell, every time you carry out a search on the web browser it adds up and for every 5 searches, Ocean Hero will recover one ocean bound plastic bottle.

It is amazing to see how many actual searches you complete in a day - try it, you will be surprised.

You too can easily swap - to find out how the scheme works, follow this link
https://about.oceanhere.today/how-it-works

As we said, small steps but hopefully, all these small steps will add up to make a difference.