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Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly Sustainability Awards 2024
2024 Entrants
A2B Taxis Truro Ltd
AquaCulture
Boardmasters Festival
Bosavern Community Enterprises Ltd
Brooks Estates Ltd
Budding Nature
Bull & Wolf
Caradon Stone
Celtic Sea Power Ltd
China Fleet
Country Club
Chocolarder
Clean Ocean Sailing
CNC Craft
Community Roots
Cornwall Climate Care
Cornwall Gateway CIC
Earth Blocks UK Ltd
Falmouth Harbour Commissioners
Falmouth Town Council
Goonvean Aggregates Ltd
Grove Farm
Gwealgues Farm
Hamatethy LLP
Higher Pendeen Camping
imPOSSIBLE Producing
Kernow Conservation
Landulph Orchard Green Community Group
Make A Mends
Mylor Mooring Services Ltd
Newquay Hockey Club
Pentewan Valley Parish Council – Climate Group
Philleighway Woods
Phytome Life Sciences
Plant One
Prego Services Ltd
Restord
Retrouvé Studio
Rosuick Farm
Sadie Jewellery
Smart Working Revolution
South West Peatland Partnership
Park Pit Project (SWW)
St Austell Printing Company
St Eval
St Martin’s Vineyard
St Austell Healthcare
Stratum Marquetry Ltd
The Headland Hotel
The Wave Project
The Workshed
Tregothnan
Tremap
Trenow Fields
Trewithen Dairy
Volunteer Cornwall – Health & Climate Resilience Network
Waterhaul Ltd
Watson-Marlow Ltd
Whitehead Ross Education
WI Climate Ambassadors
Wildflower Collective
Yallah Coffee
1981 Barbershop
This Years Categories
Entrants for this category will demonstrate best practice for the benefit of the environment, their employees and the wider community.
Entrants will show how they have addressed some or all of the following:
- Energy, pollution, waste and resource management
- Water
- Transport
- Purchasing and the local economy
- Buildings and land use
- Community participation
- Employment practices (including equality and diversity)
- Environmental management
This category has two separate awards (with one winner and one runner up each). One award for farmer and landholder plantings and one award for communities groups.
Award One: Farmers and Landholders
Entrants for this category will have demonstrated one or more of the following, with the proviso that new tree planting needs to have been carried out in the last year:
- New tree planting including projects such as orchards, hedgerows, in field trees, agroforestry and planting on all scales.
- Additional planting and improvement to existing woodland to include the restoration of natural habitats, natural regeneration, improving connectivity, biodiversity and wildlife benefits.
- Tree planting to protect and improve water courses to increase buffering, support flood prevention, increase amenity and wildlife benefit
Award Two: Communities and Groups
Entrants for this category will have demonstrated one or more of the following:
- New tree planting – this includes community or local group projects such as orchards, hedgerows, schools, and planting on all scales.
- Creation of a new tree nursery – and supporting local enterprise (either commercial or community based).
- Tree planting projects in urban areas – this includes street trees, parks and green open spaces.
- Additional planting and improvement to existing woodland to include the restoration of natural habitats, natural regeneration, improving connectivity, biodiversity and wildlife benefits.
- Tree planting to protect and improve water courses to increase buffering, support flood prevention, increase amenity and wildlife benefit.
Entrants for this category will have demonstrated one or more of the following:
- Circular product design and innovation
- Repair, re-manufacturing, re-purposing or re-use of products
- Innovative business management models
- Efficient supply chain and/or cross-sector collaboration
- The re-use of material waste, heat or energy
Entrants for this category will have demonstrated one or more of the following:
- Creation or restoration to wildlife habitat- e.g. orchards, ponds, wildflower meadows/verges, native hedges, street trees or woodlands
- Environmental improvements to buildings or ground- e.g. installation of bee bricks, bug hotels, swift boxes, nest boxes, tree planting etc
- Sustainable land management such as agri-food, nature recovery, tree planting, water management and nature-based solutions to climate change such as flood alleviation.
- Schemes to reduce invasive species, litter, noise or light pollution in the environment, (including marine coastal areas)
- Initiatives to help people connect with their environment, encouraging them to grow nature and increase public understanding and enjoyment of wildlife- e.g. Forest schools, ecotourism, training programmes
- New environmental products and services.
Note: Applications will be compared in terms of space (amount of land), people (number of employees) and turnover.
Entrants for this category will have demonstrated one or more of the following:
- Reducing carbon emissions from households, businesses or organisations
- Promoting sustainable choices and behaviour change
- Reducing emissions from transportation including people and goods
- Creating new opportunities for renewable energy
- Supporting climate resilient communities and spaces
- Promoting the removal of carbon from the atmosphere through nature-based solutions
- Going beyond carbon net zero and carbon neutral to becoming carbon positive.
The Awards Process 2024
- Nominate or apply via the online form by 31st October.
- Entries are judged by our expert panel by the end of November.
- Results are announced at the award ceremony on 6th December