I'm Sarah Melhuish. I'm Marketing Manager here at the world of Beatrix Potter Attraction and the Old Laundry Theatre.
The World of Beatrix Potter is a beautiful, enchanting walk through exhibition of Beatrix Potter's 23 tales.
So you really feel like you're walking through the pages of her books
with sights, sounds, and even some smells of the farmyard or Mrs Tiggywinkles washing.
Sustainability is a really key part of our ethos here at the attraction and the Old Laundry Theatre.
It's the strand that goes through everything we do here,
and it's also carrying on the legacy of Beatrix Potter, who wanted to protect the Lake District and the environment.
We wanted to find a much more sustainable solution to our theatre lighting
so this year we've changed all our theatre lighting to LED lights, which are much more energy efficient.
My name is Andrew and I am the in-house technician for the Old Laundry Theatre.
We swapped over to LED lighting because we were on Tungsten Halogen,
which is quite an old technology and it's quite wasteful in terms of energy.
With our old setup, we were burning the equivalent of 25 electric kettles.
With this one, we are actually down to three. So we have reduced our energy footprint by 88%.
I'm Tim Wright. I work in the garden.
So I've been here now for 13 years, and in all that time,
we've been as sustainable and environmentally friendly as we can.
Six years ago, we bought an electric van.
We charge it from photovoltaic cells that we have on the roof.
We have organic seed that we grow. We cut it, we take it down,
it can be used within the hour from being cut here to being on somebody's plate at the attraction.
Small steps, but something that we can all do.
Our relationship manager at Barclays really does get our business
and so it's been a great part of our sustainability journey.
We're really happy with our sustainable solutions here.
I think it's everyone's social responsibility to do as much as we can to try and protect our planet as we go forward,
so we would really encourage other businesses to try and do as much as they can too.