Winter 2010...

Wow. Our efforts on the environmental stuff have finally received their first official recognition. To cut a long story short Suffolk County Council support a scheme called the Suffolk Carbon Charter, which businesses can apply for and receive accreditation from. We applied and got a Silver Award, and the original of the certificate below is now proudly adorning our dining room.

It was way more than we expected, as although we do a lot of things, we don't document them very well. Fortunately, and by complete coincidence, some of the people running the scheme happened to stay with us when in the area, so they could see that we're the real thing, and don't do greenwash. That doesn't mean we didn't get a whole host of suggestions as to how to achieve Gold next year though.

We were also probably a little fortunate that our Ecotricity supply started just in time for us to submit their contract to the awarding panel as evidence of our commitment.