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Meet the tlelaom to... Contents PleaseY ous may wyond erh whoe the faces are behind the scenes who look after Cornwall Wildlife Trust's Business Supporters. Investing in 3 renewable energy 1 Serena Pettigrew-Jolly , Business Support Manager Serena has been at the Trust for almost a decade, and has worked on many areas within the Marketing and Fundraising team, such as our publications, appeals, events, media and, of course, managing the Trust’s Business Building with Supporter scheme! Everyone at the Trust is so proud to work with local 4 Nature businesses that are passionate about our beautiful natural environment. To find out more about this, please contact Serena on [email protected] or 01872 302 264 . Wildlife bites – 2 Antonia Mullaly , Business Support Business Supporter Antonia would love to hear about your efforts to support our work whether it is 5 through fundraising events, staff volunteering, providing wildlife homes or any news round-up other nature related stories. Please let her know and we will share through our

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C work with your business on measures such as habitat creation and improvement, supply chain optimisation, energy generation and better waste management opportunities. Contact Catherine on [email protected] , 07811 521 484 or see back page Contact us to discover more. To discover more about 5 businesses working for wildlife in Carolyn O’Hagan , Marketing and Fundraising Administrator Cornwall, visit Carolyn has worked for the Trust for over 9 years and is the backbone of admin www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk support for the Marketing and Fundraising team. She would love to hear from /business you if you would like to stock our stunning Wild Cornwall calendar or donate a raffle prize, so please get in touch on 2 [email protected] or 01872 302 233 . Issue Six : Summer 2018

Going Green is in our Nature

Investing in renewable energy, such Following a £12,000 grant from the The solar array is likely to save the as sunlight, wind or geothermal is M&S Energy Fund and further site up to £2,000 per year in energy gaining momentum thanks to the funding from The Carbon Trust and costs. The installation will also fantastic benefits they bring for both Kenwyn Community Fund, we provide an income of around £1,400 budgets and the environment. employed local experts ZLC Energy per year from Government incentives Energy costs can be significantly to help us with the initial planning, which together means that the Trust’s reduced along with the associated approval, design and installation of income can be maximised for local carbon footprint. The Trust recently solar panels on the roof of one of our conservation work. decided to invest in this technology buildings at the Trust headquarters as it is also part of living our values – near Allet. The team carried out the demonstrating best practice to our work within a week and were all members, the local community clearly enthusiastic about their work, believing strongly in the need for and businesses. alternatives to coal, oil, gas or nuclear

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We are also working in partnership decides to do the same for gas and £100 with Ecotricity, Britain’s greenest electricity then Ecotricity will donate DONATION energy company which uses up to £60 to further our to the Trust. renewable energy sources to power conservation work. Could your its grid. The Trust switched its business go green? Find out more Or choose to donate the full supply and if you or your business at www.ecotricity.co.uk/cwt £200 Visit www.zlcenergy.co.uk for more details. Offer valid until 31st December 2018 . Y G R E N E

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Can you build with nature in mind? Yes!

that nature is at the heart of building Also speaking were Dr Gemma projects. Attendees included land Jerome Building with Nature owners, property developers, Manager, Alex King from Hall Wood architects, planning officers and Holidays, one of our Wildlife Partners Trust Business Supporters. and Phil Mason, ’s Jenny Stuart, CEC’s Principal Planning and Sustainable Ecologist, is delighted to be a Development Manager. They Building with Nature Assessor for provided inspiring talks on the Cornwall. She explains; importance of considering green infrastructure as a matter of course in “To finally have something in place to Cornwall, and how people and the recognise good quality green environment, as well as the infrastructure for the construction developments themselves, sector to strive towards is absolutely will benefit hugely. fantastic. Working in the environment, we’ve been aware for The Trust’s consultancy, CEC, has many years that there is a vital become a pioneer in Cornwall of a need for better designed new benchmark for the design and green infrastructure in maintenance of green infrastructure all developments – in housing and commercial not just for wildlife but for people too. development. The ‘Building with It’s been proven that Nature’ scheme has been established new communities to support the creation of high thrive in housing quality green infrastructure developments throughout, and beyond, the which have planning and development process. incorporated Building with Nature provides an green spaces, assessment and accreditation trees, parks, process, focusing on five core playgrounds and standards, with three key themes – even water Wellbeing, Water and Wildlife. features such as ponds or rivers. In May, CEC held a successful To have this seminar at Heartlands to introduce accreditation scheme and celebrate this exciting and in place will add value innovative scheme, which ensures for everyone.” To learn more about this accreditation, please contact Jenny Stuart on 01872 302 314 or [email protected] www.buildingwithnature.org.uk www.cecenvironment.co.uk T S U R T

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News round-up from our Business Supporters T S U R T

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N West Water and shared their stand R on BBC Springwatch ? We O near the main ring. This year also saw C featured in several programmes with us taking part in the main parade atop Gillian Burke going rockpooling with a Land Rover! It was great to have the our marine experts and an exclusive opportunity to meet so many people Excitement is mounting now that the announcement that our resident who are keen to do whatever they can Cornwall Tourism Awards beavers at Woodland Valley entries are in and assessments will Farm had given birth to two kits! to support our work and make their soon begin. Each shortlisted entry in Beaver walks can be booked online own small changes. the Trust’s best ‘Wildlife Friendly through our shop. Pop over to our Business’ category will receive a Fancy a flutter? personal visit from our conservation Local artist Kurt Jackson and his website for the opportunity to win one team who will not only look at the wife Caroline generously donated of two luxury breaks at either Hotel work that has been done to improve £530 from ticket sales from a recent Tresanton or Mullion Cove the area for wildlife, but who will also talk they held. Both continue to be Hotel . Or perhaps you would prefer be able to make further suggestions. great supporters of the Trust by not £500 in cash to spend or a top of the The award this year is being only making regular donations, but range pair of binoculars? These prizes sponsored by a new multi-million also using their influence to spread are all up for grabs in our popular pound EU project, Tevi , which will the message of the need to actively raffle, you can purchase as many help businesses to grow whilst protect and manage Cornwall’s tickets as you like so don’t forget to let enhancing their local environment. natural environment. staff and customers know too.

The Trust’s iconic calendar of Cornish wildlife is now on sale and can be easily ordered online through our website or by phone. Huge thanks are due to our amazing sponsors who ensured that all money raised can be channelled directly into our critical wildlife conservation plans. The rollcall of honour is: Aspects Holidays Classic Cottages Cornish Riviera TIC Chelonia Mullion Cove Hotel Silverlake Design St Eval Candle Company Southern Farms The Pirate Bus The Olde House PSP Insurance and Financial Solutions Watson Marlow. 5 Wildlife at Work

Cornwall Wildlife Trust Business

Wildlife Partners Wildlife Guardians Avanti Gas, Derbyshire Mother Ivey’s Bay Cher Varya Group Ltd, Jo Downs Glass Designs BBC Radio Cornwall, Caravan Park, Ltd, Launceston Truro South West Water, Cornish Horizons, Kurt and Caroline Exeter Padstow Jackson Ltd, St Just Bourne Leisure - Perran St Eval Candle Green and Blue, SEF, Sands and Riviere Perranporth Sands Holiday Parks, Company, St Eval Trago Mills Ltd, Handykam.com, Perranporth University of Exeter Chelonia Ltd, Business School, Penryn Cornish Coffee, Redruth Vine House Farm, Spalding Cornish Guardian, Truro Visit Cornwall, Truro Cornishman, Penzance Do you enjoy Wildlife at West Briton, Truro Dewsign, Penryn Work magazine? Western Morning News, Fernbank Advertising We would love to hear from you Ltd, Launceston Whistlefish, St Ives with feedback on our business publication. If you have any Frugi, Wild Studio Cornwall, Hall Wood, comments or suggestions, please let us know. See page 2 John Fowler Holidays, Woodland Valley Farm, Ilfracombe Ladock for how to contact us.

Accommodation Helman Tor Cottages, Newquay View Resort, Ta Mill Holiday Cottages, Providers Porth, Newquay Launceston Atlantic Hotel, Newquay Hendra Holiday Park, Padstow Touring Park, Tehidy Holiday Park, Newquay Padstow Redruth Ayr Holiday Park, St Ives Higher Menadew Farm Parkdean Holidays, The Cornwall Hotel, Bamham Farm Cottages, Cornwall Launceston Cottages, St Austell St Austell Piran Meadows Resort & Bedruthan Steps Hotel, Holiday Cornwall, The Nare Hotel, Veryan-in- Mawgan Porth Falmouth Spa, Newquay Roseland Bosinver Farm Cottages, St holidaycottages.co.uk, Pioneer Billys, The Old Coastguard, Austell Bideford Pitt House, Mousehole Holiday Resort, Bude Hotel Tresanton, Pollaughan Farm, The Olde House, Budock Vean Hotel, HPB Management, Duloe Portscatho Mawnan Smith Manor, Looe Railholiday Ltd, St The Park Mawgan Porth, Carbis Bay Holidays, St Ives Idle Rocks, St Mawes Germans, Newquay Retallack Holiday Lettings Clowance Estate and John Bray Cornish Trethem Mill Touring Park, Ltd,St Columb Country Club, Praze-an- Holidays, Wadebridge St Just in Roseland Beeble River Valley Country Park, Lewinnick Lodge, Newquay Trevarth Holiday Park, Coastdale Parks, Atlantic Relubbus Blackwater Coast Holiday Park, Hayle Listed Luxury, Liskeard Rose Hill Lodges, Trevella Holiday Park, Cotna Eco Retreat, Gorran, Little White Alice, Porthtowan Crantock St Austell Carmenellis Roundhouse Barn Trewan Hall Ltd, St Columb Coombe House, Liskeard Lower Marsh Holiday Holidays, St Just in Eden Valley Holiday Park, Lettings & Retreat Venue, Roseland Valley Caravan Park, Bodmin Saltash Seaview Holiday Village, Polzeath Forest Holidays Limited, Lower Polladras Touring Polperro Watergate Bay Hotel, Liskeard Park, Helston St Ives Bay Holiday Park, Newquay Globe Vale Holiday Park Lower Treave Caravan and Hayle Waterside Cornwall, Limited, Redruth Camping Park, Penzance St Moritz Hotel & Garden Bodmin Greenbank Hotel, Falmouth Mullion Cove Hotel, Villas, Wadebridge Whalesborough Cottages Gwel an Mor, Portreath Mullion St Tinney Farm Holidays, & Spa, Bude Heligan Woods Campsite, Nancarrow Farm, Otterham, Wooda Farm Holiday St Austell Marazanvose Sykes Cottages, St Austell Park, Bude 6 Issue Six : Summer 2018

Supporter scheme directory

Art and Media Farming / Industrial Food and Drink Retail ATROPOS, Brewer and Bunney, Boscastle Farm Shop & Café Andrew Butterworth Designs, Chocolate Dog Marketing Redruth Cornish Orchards, Liskeard Cheshire Services, St Tudy Carleys of Cornwall Limited, Cornwall Community Land Harbour Lights, Falmouth Fourway Print, Launceston Pandora Inn, Mylor, Falmouth Truro Jon Tremaine Wildlife Artist, Trust, Truro EKO,St Just, Penzance Hayle Pocketful of Stones Distillers Ltd, Country Conservation, Penzance Fin Lines, Falmouth Lou Jones Design, Truro Gunnislake Southwestern Distillery Limited, Hicks Carpet Cleaning, Redruth Natalie Toms, Artist, Lanlivery CPMR Ltd, St Austell Wadebridge Polstrong Feed Store, Camborne Sailflags, Goldsithney, Westcare, Plymouth Penzance Imerys, Par The Lifeboat Inn, St Ives The Old Custom House, Padstow Silverlake Design, Sandoe and Sons, Bodmin Visitor Attractions Usfor Design and Print, The Port William Inn, Tintagel Sustainable Parking Surfaces The Rashleigh Arms, Charlestown Carnglaze Caverns, Liskeard Newquay Ltd, Gunnislake Trevaskis Farm Ltd, Hayle Cornish Seal Sanctuary, Education Watson Marlow, Falmouth Trevone Beach Cafe, Trevone, Heritage Attractions Ltd., Padstow Land's End Duchy College, Camborne Financial / Professional King Edward Mine Museum, Falmouth Marine School, Recreation Troon Falmouth Furse Sanders Solicitors, Newquay Zoo, Newquay Richard Lander School, Truro St Ives Encounter Cornwall, Fowey Paradise Park Wildlife Centre, Koru Kayaking, St Agnes RCES, Helston Hayle Environment Newquay Activity Centre, Robinson Reed Layton, Truro St Austell Brewery Visitor Environment Agency Newquay Centre, St Austell Stephen Scown Solicitors, Essential Sewage Systems, Newquay Sea Safaris and St. Aubyn Estates, Bideford St Austell Fishing, Newquay The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Naked Solar (Cornwall Solar Vickery Holman, Truro Ocean Sports Centre, Carbis Bay St Austell Panels), Newquay Worldwide Financial The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Trebah Garden, Mawnan Smith ZLC Energy Ltd, Penryn Planning Ltd, Truro Society, Falmouth Tregothnan Estates, Truro

Businesses love to support the Trust! “Joining the Trust is Did you know that 100% of Business Supporters who completed a our survey would recommend joining the Trust? good for Cornwall, good for business If you run a business, you can pledge your commitment to protecting Cornwall’s wildlife and good for yourself” and wild places by joining us, helping your business stand out from the crowd. We enjoy the support of businesses of all sizes and from many sectors who all recognise the importance Mike Nash , Handykam.com of our county’s natural environment. Working together to protect it makes perfect sense. WILDLIFE GUARDIAN SINCE 2012 . For a reminder of our Business Supporter benefits, please read on… WILDLIFE GUARDIAN £500 + VAT (or £50 per month) BUSINESS MEMBERSHIP All the perks of our Business Membership package £250 + VAT (or £25 per month) with these great additional bonus features:

n Use of our exclusive Business Supporter logo n Premium listings in our publications n Framed certificate to display to the public n Your company's logo added to our website with a n Acknowledgement in Wild Cornwall magazine and direct link to yours introduction in the Wildlife at Work publication n Framed Wildlife Guardian certificate. n Listing & link on our website and through social media n Multiple copies of our popular magazines and leaflets n Business name listed in our annual review WILDLIFE PARTNER n Invitations to networking and wildlife events £1000 + VAT (or £100 per month) n Access to special wildlife services including 'Wildlife and Habitat Enjoy the same fantastic benefits as a Wildlife surveys' from CEC plus exclusive Guardian, plus additional premium benefits: 'Wildlife Education sessions' for children n Exclusive guided walk on a nature reserve for up to 20 people n Staff engagement pack with tips and tools for employee fundraising n Framed Wildlife Partner certificate presented by Trust President Jan Pentreath n Special benefits on also joining Cornwall Good Seafood Guide Supporter scheme n A dedicated press release, focusing on your company’s partnership with the Trust. n Free wildlife gift.

To discover more about supporting Cornwall's wildlife through your business, please visit www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/business 7 Wildlife at Work

Growing your business, growing our environment

In Cornwall, we have our own ‘Tevi, Cornish for growth', is an Tevi is designed to be a time-saving official long-term strategy to grow exciting new ERDF funded project bolt-on resource and consultancy business and the environment in aiming to help Cornwall make the service, helping enterprises make tandem – known as the most of nature, its prized asset. money, reduce waste and enhance Environmental Growth Strategy. Coordinated by the University of the environment. We are unique in Europe for putting Exeter, Cornwall Wildlife Trust, The project can offer up to £1,000 the environment at the forefront of Cornwall Council and the Cornwall worth of support to help your business development, which is Development Company, the scheme business grow whilst also fantastic news for the county’s helps enterprises to grow in ways contributing to nature. To discover wildlife and wild places, as well as that add value to the county’s unique more about this ground-breaking the business community. natural environment and reduce opportunity, please contact the environmental impacts of Catherine Pinney, TEVI Business production and consumption Advisor on catherine.pinney@ across the county. cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk . or 07811 302 233 . www.tevi.co.uk

Cornwall Wildlife Trust in partnership with Tevi Wild Business event Wednesday • Cornwall Wildlife Trust's annual • Speakers including Manda Brookman, save business networking event Cornwall Wildlife Trust experts and 3rd October • This year in partnership with Tevi local business case studies 2018 • Theme of Environmental Growth • Opportunity to start your Tevi the date journey with specialist Business FREE event. Includes; inspiring talks, St Austell • Advisors Conference breakfast, networking and workshops Centre www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/businessevent Visit to discover more, including how to book

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