As outdoor enthusiasts we are perhaps more conscious than many businesses of the impact that we have, as individuals and companies, on our environment. We see at first hand changes in landscape, weather, flora and fauna as a result of environmental factors. Our responsibility is to look after all that we live for and influence those that are unaware of risk or change. In business too, Freetime is concerned about environmental issues.

Our policy is as follows:

We identify any effect of Freetime's activities on the environment.

We develop suitable objectives and targets in a management programme and apply appropriate procedures to minimise impacts in everyday conditions.

We comply with the relevant environmental legislation and regulations.

We minimise the inputs of utilities and resources and the outputs of emissions to the atmosphere, and we endeavour to re-use, recover or recycle materials where possible.

We ensure that environmental responsibilities are defined, communicated and understood at all levels within the organisation and provide appropriate opportunity to accept those responsibilities.

We ask our suppliers to declare their environmental goals and encourage them to adopt best practise.

We strive for continual improvement in environmental performance.

Cumbria Business Environment Network Award

For four consecutive years, Freetime has been involved in the above local business environmental awards scheme. This scheme involves annual assessment of a range of criteria and subsequent target setting for the following year.

In early September 2005 Freetime was awarded a Gold award for the second year running having previously attained Silver and Bronze

The gold award goes to companies who have reached a level of excellence in identifying risks, putting into place procedures to manage potential impacts and have planned for continued improvement in performance.