Our Initiatives for sustainability accreditation

We are proud to announce the Last Drop Village Hotel & Spa has been awarded the Green Key (International Environmental) Award for year 3.

Green Key is an eco-label for tourism and leisure establishments and is awarded to establishments that fulfil a list of environmental requirements. Obtaining the awards demonstrates the hotel’s efforts to develop an environmentally friendly, sustainable and responsible business. We have also achieved Gold standard for Eco-smart Greengage, an industry-leading sustainability certification that evaluates and validates business’s commitment to being sustainable and maximises green potential.

The Last Drop Village Hotel & Spa recognise the need to adopt sustainable practices across our hotel operations to help protect the planet and meet our social commitments.

We understand our responsibility to mitigate our negative impacts on both the environment and our local community and the need to maximise and improve our positive impacts in both these areas.

With this in mind, we have implemented many changes across the hotel including:

• Installed 4 EV car charging ports available for all to use, read more HERE
• Reducing our waste streams and increasing our recycling.
• Preference for local suppliers and Fairtrade goods.
• Developed a new biodiversity habitat where insects and birds can flourish. 
• Strengthening our partnerships and support for local charities and schools.

Below we have listed a few of our new policies, improvements, and successes.

We have created a large meadowland on our grounds, to allow nature to flourish. Our team has also built bug hotels by reusing wood pallets and local stones.

To help reduce detergent, energy and water use, we have decided not to change the linen for our guests staying less than 3 nights, unless requested. The linen is changed upon departure. 

We have implemented new heating timetables to reflect seasons for Bedrooms and Event Suites to reduce energy use and lower our carbon emission.

We have reviewed our Green Action plan as we look ahead to the new year and continue the actions above but implement new procedures and overall reduce our carbon footprint.

We have upgraded our ovens to be more energy efficient.

We have created 3 local walks for our guests to enjoy and discover the natural beauty around the Hotel.

We are promoting our local walks and cycling routes on our website to encourage our guests and visitors to bring their bikes, or take a walk during their stay with us HERE

We have upgraded exterior lights to LED and installed light sensors to ensure they only use energy when needed. 

We encourage sustainable transportation to the Hotel. Read more about the local trains & buses HERE

We encourage staff and guests to actively recycle more items and have not sent anything to landfill. We have reduced our single-use packaged items in our Restaurants and offer fresh tap water as an alternative to plastic bottled water in our Restaurant, Bars and Conferencing.

Staff participate in monthly No Meat Monday for staff dining.

We have partnered with a local taxi firm that uses Hybrid cars reducing our carbon footprint.

Our Sustainability Policy has been created to help guide our employees, guests and the wider community, which can be found HERE

If you have any questions, want to get involved or have ideas the Hotel could implement please E-Mail our Green Team, we will be happy for your feedback. 

For further information about Green Key, please visit their website HERE

Runners-up in the Bolton News Sustainable Awards 2023, Won the award for International Sustainable Award for 2023 and won the Mission Net Zero awards for best Bug Hotel 2023.