Sustainability

Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at Holmsdale Manor. Our aim is to help grow a new generation for whom appreciating nature and reducing use of our precious natural resources is second nature. Also, as a business we are constantly striving to be as eco-friendly as possible.

 

As well as our forest-based lessons, we have an onsite wildlife pond, butterfly gardens and bug hotels, that allow children to experience nature first hand. In the classroom they are also introduced to issues like biodiversity loss and plastic pollution in a sensitive way and encouraged to explore solutions.

 

We ensure our meals are not only tasty but wherever possible seasonal, plant focused and locally sourced, and include ingredients from our onsite organic vegetable and herb gardens. Our milk is delivered in reusable glass bottles by a traditional milkman and we are working to eliminate use of single use plastics wherever we can.

 

More broadly we foster a reuse focused culture, including offering a reusable nappy service, and strive to ensure that anything that cannot be reused is recycled.  We also constantly working to limit our use of energy, water and paper and ensure our cleaning team use eco-friendly products that do not contain toxic chemicals and that our paper is either recycled or Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.