Whitehill Country Park recently received a Gold David Bellamy Conservation award recognising the effort our team has made to protect and enhance our natural environment. The holiday parks are regularly assessed and judged on the steps they are taking to manage their land as a haven for wildlife, reduce their use of energy and water, reduce, reuse and recycle waste and support their local community.

Introduced in 1996 the David Bellamy Conservation Awards is one of the longest running green tourism award schemes. After challenging campsite and holiday park owners to be part of the solution not the problem, David was amazed at the wide range of work that the forward-thinking owners were doing for the environment. David was so impressed that a partnership was formed between the Conservation Foundation (the environmental organisation that David co-founded to help businesses get involved in conservation) and the British Holiday & Home Parks Association to set up an award scheme. The idea behind the awards has also remained the same since those early days: to celebrate what the best parks are doing for the British countryside and to encourage others to follow their lead.

Since 2016, the David Bellamy Conservation Award Scheme (DBCAS) has teamed up with the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) to run the Honey Bee Friendly Park Project, which aims to get as many parks as possible working to conserve Britain’s bees. Having taken the Honey Bee Pledge we are delighted to have also been awarded ‘Honey Bee Friendly’ status as well as the New ‘5 in 5 Hedgerow’ badge.

Our Conservation leader Eddy said "We are in a beautiful location and do everything we can to maintain this for the enjoyment of our guests as well as our local wildlife. We introduced new activities this year including our Muddy Kids Forest School, where younger children can get outside and appreciate the natural enviroment, and look forward to the projects we have planned for 2018." 

So, you can pat yourself on the back, safe in the knowledge that you’ve made a greener choice – and that you’ll have a holiday full of natural enjoyment!

Further Information

David Bellamy Conservation Awards