Down Hall Country House Hotel

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Down Hall Country House Hotel
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Down Hall

• Unique country house hotel and conference venue
• Independently owned
• 99 bedrooms
• 26 meeting and event rooms
• Grill room 2 AA Rosette Fine Dining Restaurant
• 110 acres of grassland and woodland
• Premier wedding venue in Herts Essex

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Why Go Green Carbon Neutral?????

• Because we care about environment impact we
  have on it
• To take advantage of our unique site
• Clients want a green venue
• Be ahead of legislation on carbon management
• Lead the way in our local wider market place
• Develop a stronger, more ethical business
• Save energy, reduce waste, create awareness
• Because we felt it was the right thing to do!!

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Some Key Initiatives

• Setting up of staff working groups
• Launching to team, clients and suppliers
• Reduce, re use and recycle project
• Bulb replacement
• Eco Audit
• Energy reduction

• Purchase of Green car
• Vegetable garden set up
• Switch to renewable electricity
• Power Perfector Installation
• Working with Essex Wildlife Trust
• Customer off setting

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Some of our successes to date

• Customer buy in
• Team buy in
• New Business
• Home grown produce
• Going Green part of our everyday business
  activities
• All paper products changed

• Reduction in CO2 of over 60
• Reduction in landfill waste of over 20
• 20 reduction in energy usage
• Increase in business profile

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Going forward.

• Green conference offering
• Customer off setting
• Increase size of vegetable garden

• Replace plant with greener options
• Decrease what we send to landfill
• Guest recycling
• Go carbon neutral