Green Awards

Killhope has had the honour of winning several awards for our green work. Everybody in the Killhope team is immensely proud of receiving recognition for all of their hard work.

In 2007 Killhope received with great delight a gold award in the North East Tourism Awards. We attended an awards ceremony at the National Glass Centre discovered that we'd received a gold award in the Sustainable Tourism category.

Killhope is a member of the Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS) and were awarded a gold award for green tourism in 2007.

The GTBS is an accreditation scheme for tourism businesses relating to environmental good practise.

A GTBS advisor came to Killhope and looked at many different aspects of the site including energy efficiency, water usage, wildlife and our purchasing policies. We were initially given a silver award in November 2006 and after working hard over the winter on the list of recommendations we were assessed again in March 2007. After this assessment we were found to have improved so much we were granted the Gold Award. All the Killhope staff worked very hard for this award and everybody was delighted that we had made such a difference.