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.
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.
Here at Mother Ivey's Bay Holiday Park, we welcome guests of all ages, most of whom make good use of the local beaches in the area. The north coast of Cornwall is blessed with a winning combination of golden sandy beaches and exhilarating surf which makes for exciting swimming and watersports.
We would urge all of our guests, though, to bear in mind that the sea and tides require respect from visitors at all times of the year.
If in any doubt at all about tide times and local currents, or if your surfing/swimming skills haven't been used in a while you should consider visiting one of the many local beaches with a lifeguard patrol. On any of these beaches you have the benefit of local experts to keep an eye on conditions and the safest areas to swim or surf will be clearly marked out.
It is helpful to familiarise yourself with the flag markers and what they mean when you arrive at the beach.
In addition to providing a very valuable beach lifeguard service, the RNLI also operate an all weather lifeboat station on Trevose Head which is clearly visible from Mother Ivey's Bay. The Padstow lifeboat is a relatively new Tamar Class (appropriately enough!) "Spirit of Padstow" which has been in service since 2006. You can visit the RNLI station dfuring your stay and and any contribution you can make to the invaluable work of the RNLI will, we are sure, be most appreciated.
Mother Ivey's Bay are pleased to announce a rare opportunity to buy a caravan on the park. This 4 birth caravan (year of manufacture 2007) is licensed until December 2016.
Caravan dimensions are 32 ft by 12 ft. Caravan is sited with steps, storage box, TV aerial and outside tap. Purchase price is £27,500. Details of additional annual fees can be found HERE.
Our special thanks to Richard Vinall who has sent us this awesome photo taken on Mother Ivey’s beach during his holiday last summer. It comes with a Health Warning… always best just to admire the sea when it is as wild as this, and never go in! Thanks for sharing the photo with us Richard. If anyone else would like to share their Mother Ivey’s holiday photos and memories, we would love to hear from you.
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!
We are planning a major overhaul of our touring facilities, replacing the existing ‘Palace’ and ‘Field’ toilet blocks with completely new facilities that will incorporate the latest ‘green’ technology without compromising customer comfort. This is in keeping with Mother Ivey's policy to have as little harmful impact on the environment as possible.
Regular updates will appear on our website and this blog as the project progresses.
FEEDBACK & IDEAS REQUESTED
Customers are invited to email info@motheriveysbay.com with any suggestions for the new facilities or you can leave a comment here on our blog. Please also tell us if you already know of excellent touring facilities on other Parks because as they say ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’, and if someone else is already doing it well then we would like to know.
Our photo shows architects Claire Newman and Roger Green from PDP Green Consulting Ltd making a preliminary survey on Monday 8th June 2009.
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