Lake District Conservation

David Bellamy Conservation Award

Castlerigg Hall received a David Bellamy Gold Award for the 20th consecutive year for various conservation measures implemented on and around the park over the last year. Creating and managing habitats – the places where animals and plants live – is one of the most important things a park can do for the environment. When you think about it, few other businesses can give wildlife a home in the way a park can. With this is mind, the David Bellamy Conservation Awards scheme has asked us to give extra attention to five specific habitats over five years.

Starting in 2017, we focused on hedgerows.
In 2018, we looked at wildflower meadows and other wildflower areas and in 2022 we were busy planting trees for the Tree-mendous Challenge. We now have Red Squirrel feeding boxes, 120 new trees and shrubs planted that encourage wildlife, butterfly bushes and areas of grass left unmown that provide a habitat for Owl food.

2023
We accepted the ‘David Bellamy Home Sweet Home Challenge’ and this autumn were recognised as fulfilling this wildlife project. Our eco bee hive was a huge success from the previous year, with a colony of honey bees taking residence. We now have a bug hotel and a variety of bird-boxes and log pile habitats.

2024

We achieve the Bellamy Pollinator Patch accreditation, this challenge has been chosen to compliment the Home Sweet Home challenge completed last year.

2025

Ourselves and our team are thrilled to achieve the Bellamy Super Signage accreditation providing wildlife interpretation around the park for young and old. Watch this space for our 2026 challenge!

We are delighted with the results and now have Red Deer, Red Squirrels, Badgers and an Owl living on and around the park. Have you seen our wildlife interpretation panels around the park and conservation newsletter?
Please pick one up in the reception.

Rewilding our honey bees.

In 2020 we signed up to the Honey Bee pledge and in 2023 we installed an eco beehive.

The honey bee population has been struggling, loss of habitat and human impact on the planet have all taken their toll.
The idea of this Tree Hive is to provide a much needed habitat for a colony of bees to inhabit and exist undisturbed just as nature intended.

It will enable bees to adapt to their local environment, improve their health and vitality and benefit the local bee population and surrounding countryside.

www.justecobeehives.com

Butterfly Trust

We are also a corporate sponsor of the Butterfly Trust.

For more info visit: butterfly-conservation.org