Green Awards

Hunting Hall

North Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership Award for Excellence 2011:
We are very proud to have recently won two categories:
Sustainable Tourism
Farming and Land Management

“A green ethos runs through the whole business, but for the visiting guest, it isn’t ‘in-your-face’, it’s more a way of life – truly inspirational!”
“Insects were buzzing, birds were singing and blooming flowers created colourful swaths across the rolling grassland during the site visit and all the while crops were growing. All these factors contributed to integrated farm management. The passion and commitment of Tom and Karen was plain to see by their positive impact on the land.”

Green Tourism Business Scheme Gold Award "An exemplary business” Jonathan Proctor, Green Tourism Business Scheme Auditor

Newt Cottage Farm Holiday Project won the Volvo Young Environmentalists of the Year Award 2005

Meg Burn was National Young Environment Champion of the Year 2001 for her project “Bats, Badgers and Otters on my Footpath”. In 2005 Meg was the UK representative at a UNEP Youth Conference in Bangalore. Here she gave a presentation including the work we have done at Newt Cottage.

Tom Burn’s Farmland Conservation Work won the Northumberland Wildlife Trust Individual Conservation Award 2003

Belford Wildlife Watch Group’s ‘Great House Sparrow Rescue Project’ was Highly Commended in the British Naturalists’ Association Blake Shield 2003 and won the Northumberland Wildlife Trust Conservation Awards 2003 1st Prize Community Category

Belford Wildlife Watch Group was awarded a Certificate of Merit in the British Naturalists’ Association Blake Shield Ward Cup 2000 for their Hunting Hall ‘Pond Quandary’ Project.