Bewl goes Green

Our Environmental policy

Our Mission Statement

Bewl Valley Sailing Club is dedicated in introducing and maintaining a programme that enables the club and its surrounding land to become a Sustainable and Eco friendly environment.

Our objectives in the office

• We will be aware of the consumption of materials within our general office operations.

• We will recycle paper, ink cartridges etc.

• We will think about the necessity of printing documents and the postage involved.

• We will become more aware of our energy consumption by regular monitoring.

Our objectives throughout the club & beach

• We will recycle everything that we are able to do including composting

• We will have separate bins well labelled to advise all of the above to our members

• We will encourage all age groups to be an advocate in promoting this lifestyle

• As old light bulbs expire we will replace them with energy efficient ones

• We will introduce “turning of lights” posters to display in prominent places throughout the club house

• The same with taps

• We will make the showers more efficient by regular cleaning.

Our objectives in the catering department

• To source local foods using our local farming and fruit community so lowering our carbon footprint

• To advertise the carbon footprint of each meal

• To advertise & label where foods have come from

• To promote a well balanced menu with a healthy and vegetarian option

• To offer seasonal produce so keeping prices down

• To advertise the above on the website, menus, blackboards on the beach

• To recycle all packaging etc in the way the club has stated above

Our objectives in the boat park

• To aim to have compost bins in all boat parks for grass clippings etc from individuals maintaining their own boat spaces

• To encourage an organic method to maintaining weeds etc in their space

The Way Forward

• To approach our waste contractor regarding recycling.

• To introduce new and well labelled bins to co-inside with the recycling we can do.

• To organise compost bins for each boat park.

• To put together a fact sheet as to how to run an organic boat space.

• To locate local fruit, vegetables and meat suppliers.

• To promote and advertise local farmers within the Beaver and Website

• To be committed in achieving 100% email addresses from our members so reducing as much printing and paper as we can

• For the website and notice boards to publicise our environmental commitment and promote sustainability.

• To publicise our energy usage in the form of displayed graphs

Critical Success Factors to be taken in 6 months time

• To look at how the bins are used throughout the summer

• To look at boat parks and compost areas, any improvement?

• To look at the numbers of email addresses gained

• How much correspondence was sent out using paper and printing

• How many light bulbs have been replaced.

• What have been the catering numbers for each meal.

• How many local farmers are now being used.

• Compare monthly energy readings