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January 2010 Over the last 3 years, CoaST in partnership with Cornwall Energy Partnership (CEP ) has worked with and provided free support to businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. In Cornwall we have helped 154 businesses to gain GTBS certification with an impressive spread of awards; Gold (46) Silver (85) Bronze (19) With a further 4 businesses at the Going Green stage. In addition to this total, support was provided to a further 70 businesses. Cornwall also has an additional 15 businesses currently Awaiting Grading so these totals are set to rise further. Other Headline figures -
Our free help included the opportunity to hook into a bespoke site visit, Btec in Sustainable Tourism, attending workshops and events, email and phone support and general gophering as well as a wide range of free resources. Oliver Gibson Assistant Restaurant Manager - Fifteen Cornwall Without Jacqui and CoaST’s advice and assistance, we would have been much more in the dark with regards to our grading. The target now is for Gold when we are re-audited in 2010. Leza Wilson – Helsbury Park On gaining their Gold award… ... I’m still a bit shell shocked to be honest – in a very, very happy kind of way. You were invaluable, I’d been looking at the form and putting it away again for two years but your visit was so reassuring, not to mention good fun, it gave me the boost I needed to crack on. And what a result a huge thank you to CoaST for your help and support. Chris Jones – Woodland Valley Farm “We have been awarded our GTBS Gold, which gives us great satisfaction for the recognition given the amount of work that we have done here. Clearly we have a great deal more work to do, and indeed our standard response to the question ‘When will you finish your project?’ is ‘Never: we expect it to be case of continuous evolution, change and growth.’ The bottom line though is that without Coast we would never have done the BTEC in sustainable tourism. Without Coast we would never have done joined the GTBS scheme, or completed the process successfully. The Coast team h Links
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