Eco Centre Award and Oaklands
The Oaklands Centre
Capel Garmon Road
Betws-y-Coed
Conwy, NORTH WALES
LL26 0RB
T: 01690 710500
F: 01690 710420
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We are working towards attaining an Eco Centre Award at Oaklands and ask all our visitors to participate in this with us.
Building our Willow Arch (Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy)
Eco Centre status is designed to make environmental awareness and action an intrinsic part of the life and ethos of a centre for all staff and visitors.
Eco-Code
- Turn off lights when leaving rooms
- Shut doors when leaving a room
- Turn down heating rather than opening window
- Leave no evidence of your visit to activity sites
- Recycle your waste
- Don’t litter
- Take the chance to make a difference yourself
- Turn off taps to save water
Whilst working towards Eco Centre status at Oaklands we have
- Built a willow classroom
- Placed bird boxes around the centre grounds( made by a local school)
- Re instated two new pond areas
- Sympathetically planted the bank area behind the house to encourage butterflies and insects
- Reduced lunchtime plastic waste by using shared lunch boxes instead of plastic bags
- Reduced the amount of waste we produce by removing cans from our tuck shop and recycling glass, plastic and paper. We have reduced the number of waste bins we use each week by one
- We have started to monitor our electricity use with a view to reducing our consumption
- Young people are encouraged to take part in environmentally friendly actions both on activity and at the centre. They are awarded points on how well they do and are able to self score their actions in a Record of Achievement booklet
- Many of our staff are taking part in a cycle to work scheme
- The on going refurbishments at Oaklands will reflect our efforts in this area and make improvements at the centre