Shortlist

Green spotlight shines on parks with winning wild ideas

More than 560 holiday parks where wild ideas flourish and take root are celebrated in the latest round of the David Bellamy Conservation Awards. The recently announced 2019 winners...

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Cornish holiday parks family and staff toast two top green awards

Two holiday parks in southern Cornwall, owned by an 85-year-old family business, are celebrating after being named as winners of a top environmental award. Stonerush Lakes park near Looe,...

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Ashes to ashes – but Lakeland Holiday park has a phoenix plan

Ash trees went up in smoke on an Ambleside holiday park’s fireworks night (Nov 02) after autumn revealed the alarming number of trees stricken with a fatal fungal disease....

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Devon holiday park to harvest sunbeams in £300k green energy drive

Ladram Bay Holiday Park is set to sink around £300,000 into an ambitious new green energy project – with the benefits being felt by both guests and the environment....

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Cheers as Wales holiday park is declared a green champion

Staff and the family owners of Plassey, a Holiday Park in Wrexham are celebrating after learning that their wildlife-friendly business has scooped a major green accolade. This month, the...

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Winter is open season for training as Lakes park recruits

Two keen walkers have taken a step forward in their tourism careers after joining the Lake District’s  multi-award winning caravan park. Sophy Nelson and Lauren Thompson are the latest...

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Cornwall holiday parks celebrate green awards success

Botanist David Bellamy has named four Holiday Parks, Caravan Parks, and Campsites in Cornwall as being among the greenest places in Britain for families to enjoy a holiday. All...

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Highlands End is the Dorset Holiday Park of the Year!

Highlands End Holiday Park won gold in the Holiday Park of the Year category at the Dorset Tourism Awards on Thursday 17th October 2019. The awards were held at...

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Park Holidays UK to host hundreds of free holidays for Thomas Cook staff

Park Holidays UK has invited more than 600 Thomas Cook staff and their families to enjoy a weekend by the seaside so that they can say “a proper goodbye”....

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Cornwall holiday park creates a real buzz in green awards

Honey bees and butterflies have helped a family’s Cornish holiday park to wing its way to victory in a national environmental awards scheme. Tehidy Holiday Park near Redruth has...

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Devon holiday park’s bakers rise to charity challenge

Staff at Paignton Holiday Park put the icing on the cake for Macmillan Cancer Support during its World’s Biggest Coffee Morning event this autumn. Receptionists, entertainers and other members...

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New claim to fame for Cumbria Tourism’s holiday park of the year

Lakeland’s newly-crowned holiday park of the year in the Cumbria Tourism Awards 2019 can also claim a more historic title, according to recently discovered documents and publications. They reveal...

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Nostalgia games were winners at holiday park’s day of old fashioned fun

Snakes alive: youngsters enjoy a close encounter with a rescued adder at the fun day’s popular petting zoo Giant snails, sack races and ceramics helped pack a Lancashire holiday...

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Adding zip to staycations wins praise for Cumbria holiday park

Families have given the thumbs-up to a Lake District holiday park which took a £150,000 gamble on creating a series of high-octane experiences for children. Skelwith Fold in Ambleside...

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Why Dorset holiday park was twinkling with stars this summer

There was a triple taste of stardom this summer for a Dorset holiday park which found itself to be glittering with its guests in three very different ways. Family-owned...

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Double first for Wales holiday parks family toasting two decades

Staff and the family owners of a Pembrokeshire holiday parks group are celebrating after scooping two top honours in two prestigious award schemes. Celtic Holiday Parks, which this year...

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Holiday park lands a charity windfall for Air Ambulance

Generous visitors to a fundraising party at Drovers Way Holiday Park in Elton, Stockton-on-Tees, have provided a £2,200 lift for the Great North Air Ambulance Service. Almost 200 guests,...

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Families rally to help Devon holiday park take out a ton of plastic

The family owners of a Devon holiday park are involving guests in their bid to turn the tide on the scourge of plastic which is polluting West Country beaches....

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Wales holiday park makes cup finals in cafe awards!

Staff and the family owners of a Clwyd holiday park, Ty Gwyn, are celebrating after being named as one of the top spots in Wales for a perfect cuppa....

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Drivers put on bay watch as Devon holiday park goes mobile

Stunning views of a beachside holiday park in Devon can now being glimpsed from highways and by-ways across Britain, thanks to an unusual publicity drive which has just got...

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