In The Community

Born and bred we have established ourselves as a stable and respected business in the local and wider community.

• We are one of the major employers in the locality.
• We provide all year round employment for some of our staff unlike other operators.  Most of our key staff are long serving with the company and due to our policies we attract the best.
• We are a supporter of many local charities giving away thousands of pounds of tickets and direct donations each year. In 2011 these amounted to over £10,000.
• Each year we make specific and larger donations to specific causes. These amount to £5,000 a year
• We request no promotion and sometimes ask for anonymity for our donations as we believe they are for the purpose of helping others and not for our own PR.
• We support local schools and groups offering free or heavily discounted tickets.
• We financialy support initiatives such as the Pembrokshire Coast National Park park and ride schemes.

For 2011/2012 we will specifically be supporting, via the Size Of Wales, a marine conservation project in the Rebublic Congo.

Our 5 year plan includes how we will support the community.

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 !