Railholiday have always been committed to being as sustainable as we possibly can be. Here are a few things that we do:

We are currently working towards achieving net zero, with regular carbon audits to monitor our progress

We offer a local carbon savers discount of £50 off for all guests arriving by train, or who live locally in Cornwall or Devon.

All our energy is sourced from renewables, and has been since green tariffs were first introduced in the late 1990s. (We use Good Energy and Octopus Energy). We also have solar panels that part-power the office and Old Luggage Van.

Mevy and Millpool are centrally heated by a biomass boiler, fuelled from wood from our own woodland. The Luggage Van and Travelling Post Office have wood-burning stoves (again fuelled by our own wood) and the Travelling Post Office has an air-source heat pump.

We recycle on a grand scale! All our carriages are derelict wrecks that are bought back to life using secondhand materials wherever possible. Every purchase is carefully considered for its sustainability value, from fabrics to white goods. Reuse is very important to us.

We produce our own home grown apple juice, for our welcome packs, reusing our bottles and tops so there is no waste.

Our gardens and woods are managed for optimum wildlife benefit. We make sure pollinators have flowers all year round. We never buy in flowers, but use fresh flowers from our gardens for our vases.

We plant trees! Over the years we have planted thousands of trees and hedges in our own woodland and a small holding near Landrake that we have access to. In addition we have a guest plant-a-tree scheme of £25 a tree. This is used for special trees and community planting. We double the value of the fund at the end of the year. So far the fund has paid for a community orchard at St Germans and Loveland in Penryn, and for trees for a re-wilding project on Dartmoor, as well as several specimen memorial trees.

We compost and recycle. We chose our waste contractors because they had the greenest credentials.

We support our local community, setting up a community shop and now volunteering in it, restoring a traditional May festival that we now fund the toilet hire for, involvement in the local Public Transport Users Group (six years as chair and seventeen years on the committee and counting). We have also bought a community defibrillator for use at the station and future plans include installing a community use drinking water tap.

All white goods, lights etc are low energy wherever possible. We work on the basis that all new items have a high carbon cost, so buy second hand whenever possible, and keep things going for as long as we can.

We save water; we have water buts, water storage tanks, a grey water system and a policy of not watering the garden (with the exception of targeted watering in times of extreme drought).

We write a fortnightly article in the local paper on environment issues and ways people can help, and a monthly article for our parish newsletter.

We take part in campaigns, fighting global warming and campaigning for social justice. We do this in many ways, from taking part in processions and banner making to letter writing.

We have a Green Acorn for Sustainability. This is a local and good value scheme, which is why chose it. In the past we have scored Gold for Green Tourism, and also score very highly in the BCorp self assessment

We are business members of Cornwall Wildlife Trust and support many other local and national charities, including the local youth group, the Railway Children, and Livewire Youth Music (where Lizzy volunteers each week as a music teacher).