Caring for You, Our Community and the Environment

We are privileged in being able to operate a very successful company in such amazing surroundings. It does though place a high responsibility upon us and in particular our duty of care to

  • the environment
  • you as our customers
  • our employees and the local community

In addition to our environmental and safety polices which you can find in the menu on the left we have a new 5 year plan to be effective from 2011.

In summary the 5 year plan sets its objectives as

Environmental

  • Reducing  its environmental footprint by 5% in the first year and then 2.5% per year achieving a total of 15%
  • Increasing its current carbon offset from 100% to 120% within 5 years and to audit the offset credits.
  • Promote Ramsey Island for consideration as a statutory Marine Reserve
  • To facilitate greater sharing of specific wildlife sightings and records with approved organisations
  • To regularly audit our own operation for compliance to voluntary and statutory codes of practice.
  • To make current codes of practice written company policy.
  • To then enable those company policies to be revised and adapted on a more dynamic basis to suit changing wildlife patterns in consultation with others.
  • To invite external audit of our operations and policies

How we support others

  • Restricting its current £15,000 (year) charitable and other support to organisations that follow environmental and management best practices.
  • Increasing donations by £1,000 per year or to a minimum of 1% of turnover

Community Support & Education

  • Offer short training schemes for local youngsters
  • Increase free or subsidised local educational tickets
  • Increase allocation of subsidised tickets for locals who would not or could not normally experience Ramsey Island and the offshore waters

 Business Practice

  • To review all suppliers and to encourage them to adopt best practices. Where no effort is shown then to seek alternatives.
  • To invest in and encourage relationships with other business in the locality

Please do read our policies as we want to show that whilst not perfect we do our best !

 

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