Better Recycling Facilities

Following the overwhelming positive response from our customers to the introduction of recycling facilities at Mother Ivey’s in 2007, recycling facilities at the holiday park have been further improved and extended for 2009.

Mother Ivey's Bay has recently taken delivery of a complete range of recycling bins, allowing customers to recycle their glass, tins, paper, cardboard, plastic and garden waste at any of our ten waste collection areas around the Park. Additionally, there is a a battery recycling point in reception for old torch batteries.

Park owner Patrick Langmaid said: "our customers encouraged us to introduce recycling and having now converted every waste collection area on Park into a recycling facility we have succeeded in reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill by around one-third, which is a great start. Our target now is to send one-half of all our waste for recycling and we are sure we will achieve this by the end of 2010 given all the goodwill from customers."

The improved recycle bin facilities mark a further step in what is an ongoing process at Mother Ivey's Bay to continually reduce the environmental impact of the park to create an environmentally sustainable business.

2009 Bellamy Award Inspection

Recently Mother Ivey's Bay was pleased to welcome Pat and David Pearce to our park for our annual "Bellamy" Inspection and annual audit report. This inspection results in our David Bellamy Award grading. Our focus this year was on recycling which is an area in which Mother Ivey's Bay is performing strongly thanks to a programme of changes that we have implemented.

Customer feedback is a critical part of our audit process and David is particularly keen that as many customers as possible complete a "Bellamy Postcard". These "Bellamy Postcards" are available free at Reception or you can ask a member of the gardening team.

The David Bellamy Award is given to holiday parks that take a pro active approach to minimise the environmental impact of their work on the surrounding environment. In addition parks, which are often located in privileged and stunning natural locations, are encouraged to be good custodians of the land and to support bio diversity and wildlife habitat alongside the operation of the business.

Mother Ivey's Bay holds a David Bellamy Gold Award.

Young arrivals at MIB!

We are celebrating here with the latest crop of young Swallows to call MIB home! Their parents return to Mother Ivey's Bay every year and build their nests in our undercover store area next to the Housekeeping shed. The undercover store is used to keep most of the weather off our Grass cutting machine, which is used every day. Having said this the Swallows are not put off by the comings and going during the day.

They seem to be growing rapidly, which is just as well as these migratory youngsters have quite a flight ahead of them!

Stunning Sunset at Mother Ivey's Bay

Guests at the park are often treated to some stunning sunsets, along with impressive sea conditions and a variety of local wildlife. This picture of a particularly stunning sunset over the park was taken this month.

There are a selection of photos of life at the park, regularly updated in the photo gallery of the main Mother Ivey's Bay website. A selection can also be found on their facebook page along with details of upcoming local events.

Smokers lose their ashtray!

Life for the smoking regulars at the Cornish Arms pub just got a little bit tougher! One of their wall-mounted ashtrays has been commandeered by a family of Blue Tits, leaving them to stub their cigarettes out in a temporary facility.

The cheeky Blue Tit family decided that the ashtray was just what they were looking for for their new family and promptly moved in, much to the amusement of the management and many of the pub's human clientele.

The new residents between them have created a comfortable nest and laid four eggs which have now hatched. Pub manager Colin Hart said the feathered "squatters" were discovered nesting two weeks ago.

He said: "One morning we noticed something going in and out of the cigarette box. We investigated and discovered a blue tit was nesting in there.

"There were some eggs which have now hatched into chicks, and their mother is busy feeding them. All the staff and regulars want to keep them protected."

Recycling at Mother Ivey's Bay

The amount of rubbish that is generated is staggering. Glass bottles, Plastic bottles, Paper, Card and Tins are all things that can be recycled. Everything else, at the moment, has to go to landfill.

Here at Mother Ivey’s we have been keen to attack this problem and have introduced, over the last few years, Recycling Bins within our waste collection areas around the Caravan Park. Last year we tried to encourage all of our guests to recycle as much as possible. The good news is that we have really got into recycling and the proof for us is in how many times we have had to exchange the large recycling skips.

2008 we exchanged one 8 yard skip of each type of waste (Plastic bottles and Tins, Cardboard, and paper) In the first 2 months of 2009 season (April and May) we have exchanged 1 skip of each type with the second skips to be exchanged by the end of June.

This must be great news for Mother Ivey’s and of course for Cornwall and our Children. We must keep this up and improve on other waste streams.

Marine Conservation at MIB

Mother Ivey’s Bay has just completed its Beach survey for the Marine Conservation society. The results are then sent to them for analysis. We try to complete 4 a year with the results being used to assess the impact of waste that ends up in the seas around our coast.

The team at Mother Ivey’s takes pride in the quality of our beach and this survey helps us to make sure that the beach is clean and safe. We have team members that clean the beach every day.

The amount of waste that is in our seas needs to be controlled as we all enjoy going to clean beaches and seeing lots of different creatures in and around the coasts and coast lines.