A GREEN organisation is turning gold after it bagged a top Tourism award.
The Chilterns Conservation Board has become one of three businesses in Oxfordshire to win a Gold Award from the Green Tourism Business Scheme which accredits firms operating in an eco-friendly way.
It joins self-catering holiday cottage The Chestnuts, in Shilton, near Carterton, and the Henley Business School.
The board has installed solar panels to generate electricity and low energy lighting, and is working to cut staff travel miles.
It also planted trees and distributed low energy lightbulbs to parishes to offset carbon emissions.
Conservation board information officer Claire Forrest said: “We are thrilled to have this seal of approval on all our work.
We are always trying to make improvements, wheth-er it is replacing an old boiler with an efficient condensing one or reducing the miles that staff travel.
“We also encourage other businesses to join the Green Tourism Business Scheme – many of us are already operating in a green way so why not get some credit for it?”
Based in Chinnor, the board is a public body which looks after and promotes the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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