Holiday resort Unity in Brean celebrates after winning prestigious award

Holiday Resort Unity in Brean Sands won a gold award in the British Holiday & Parks Association's David Bellamy Awards for the fourth time.

The award recognises conservation work done by holiday parks across the UK and their efforts to help Britain's bees and wildflowers.

Alan House, director of Brean Holiday Park, said: “We are really thrilled to receive this award again.

"We have worked hard this year to try and enhance our commitment to our environment, which isn’t always an easy task when we have so many visitors on site every day.

"This year we have introduced new signage around the park so people staying with us know what wildlife to look out for both here on site and when exploring our local area.

"We also started doing wildlife walks over the school summer holidays, which were very popular and look to add these into our regular programme of activities for families going forward.

"We are very fortunate to have Mick, our head gardener, and a very dedicated team behind him that work hard throughout the year to create and maintain our green spaces and who are all very committed and take pride in our grounds and the environment in which they work”

In Spring the park appeared on Hugh’s Wild West which praised its achievement in balancing a busy tourism operation whilst maintaining the protection of its local environment.

They also opened the Secret Wood in partnership with Secret World Wildlife Rescue in September and they are working with Litter Free Coasts Somerset to reduce the use of single-use plastics and protect the coastline.

The park is one of a number of parks which take part in the scheme and is regularly assessed by a team of local wildlife experts.

The assessors look at the measures parks are taking to manage their land as a haven for wildlife; reduce their use of energy, water and other resources; reduce, reuse and recycle the waste they produce and also support their local communities.