Our ethos is to…

• Always give something back to the local area
• Stay, eat and drink locally
• Work closely with local businesses
• Promote public transport
• Tread carefully and lightly
• Inform, educate and inspire
• Reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible.

Sustainable Travel

• Plan our courses and walks so that we reduce down travel time as much as possible throughout the year;
  plan walks in similar locations on consecutive days to reduce travel
• Use locations with good public transport links as much as possible
• Promote public transport in all correspondence
• Promote car sharing for groups and corporate bookings
• Offer a pick up and drop off service to the nearest railway station
• Choose locations that do not require the use of a car once the group has arrived.

Spend locally

• Plan our courses and walks so that we always use villages with a good variety of accommodation and
  public transport links
• Use local pubs and cafes to base our walks from
• Promote accommodation options for all of our courses, to encourage people to stay overnight.

‘Payback’ schemes

• Plant one deciduous tree in the Yorkshire Dales for every corporate booking
• Donate to the Yorkshire Three Peaks project
• Encourage Green Transport to courses and walks by promoting car sharing and public transport.

Working with the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, we plant a tree in the Yorkshire Dales for every corporate ‘team walking’ day. During December 2019 and 2021 we also donated 5% of our sales towards this tree planting project, and planted an additional 30 trees.

Trees planted so far: 203

Tread lightly

• Tread lightly and carefully as the moors and mountains are fragile landscapes that support rare wildlife.
• Keep to paths to avoid expanding erosion to the side of the paths
• Pick up ALL litter that we see. Carry EVERYTHING out with us that we brought in
• Carry out all biodegradable waste, including apple cores and banana skins
• Take people to quieter areas and onto Access Land to reduce our impact on busier routes
• Use a variety of venues and locations to avoid over use
• Educate, discuss and inform people about our environmental impact, natural environment and rare habitats
• Educate, discuss and inform people about how we can all reduce our impact on the environment
• Keep group sizes to within reasonable ratios to reduce our impact with regards to noise, erosion and detrimental effects to the environment.

Kit, Clothing and Equipment

• Maintain and repair our outdoor clothing and kit to make it last longer
• Recycle as much as possible
• Educate our clients about using re-usable plastic water bottles, rather than single-use water bottles.

Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories, kill nothing but time