What is Eco about Eco Retreats?

 At Eco Retreats we are passionate about the environment and feel very privileged to be able to operate our business in this stunning part of the landscape.  We feel we have a responsibility to take care of it and as such feel the landowners hand over guardianship of it for the length of the season.  Therefore we have to be of integrity with all things to do with it and that is more than using green products and recycling. This applies to us at home, in our office as well as at the site.

We carefully research each product we use and pay attention to the ethiscore rating and listing.  We  ensure that we are not using products that have been subjected to greenwash or that is owned by a parent company that is responsible for either dodgy ethics or disregard for the environment in other ways.

Whatever we do here at the site will directly affect it so all of our cleaning products, washing up liquid, hand soap and shampoo etc. adhere to strict biodegradable and ecological criteria and all food products we provide for you are certified organic and fair-trade. 

When we are sourcing our products we will endeavour to use independant companies and shops local to us, if we cannot source from our area we will look first to products made in the UK.  When looking for soft furnishings we will only use companies that have strict fair trade principles and research their supply chain to ensure that this is not being abused. Our soft furnishings need to be to the highest standards - we have phased in organic, fair trade, unbleached cotton sheets and towels, organic sheepskins, fair trade rugs and cushion covers (either that, or we have fun making the cushion covers).

We really consider where we spend our money and regularly contribute to Water Aid, The Voice of the Children Project, The White Buffalo Fund, Coed Heddwch (Trees of Peace) as well as other good causes such as The Center for Biological Diversity,  Action Aid



We pride ourselves on being fairtrade, and this has to be reflected in the pay we give the team of people who work for us, they are a fantastic bunch of individuals and we thank them by paying a decent, living wage.

In order to ensure that we are doing all we can, we work with Green Dragon and we have been certified to Level 2.