Henley Conferences: the perfect ‘green’ venue for any event!

Henley Conferences at Greenlands is committed to achieving the highest standards of environmental performance, preventing pollution and minimising the impact of its operations. In the past year, the venue has achieved the extensive recognition for all the work undertaken to protect and sustain the environment. This includes:

• BS ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems, demonstrating commitment to the environment.

• BS ISO 9001Quality Management Systems demonstrating commitment to service quality.

• Platinum Tier International Association of Conference Centres Green Star accreditation.

• Green Tourism Gold Award for Sustainability.

Not content with resting on our laurels, Henley has continued to implement numerous systems to improve the sustainability of the business and whilst segregating waste for recycling has been common practice for several years, its team have now gone one step further to divert many tonnes of waste away from landfill, by harnessing the power of the mighty worm! Working alongside Kompost, Henley Conferences at Greenlands have introduced several specially created composting bins to their waste and recycling collection point. These bins are filled with food waste, tea leaves, coffee grounds and other vegetable matter and then play host to a colony of busy earthworms, who munch their way through this wonderful banquet and in their wake leave a superb organic compost, that then goes back onto the gardens of the estate to bolster productivity.

Greenlands is also fortunate to be situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, with a unique riverside environment and it is our policy to work to conserve these natural habitats and create additional areas of wildlife value wherever possible. River banks have been reinforced with an environmental solution to river bank engineering and allowed the creation of wetland scrapes to encourage wildlife habitat and there is also a wild meadow area containing many specimens of local flora and encouraging insect and mammal activity.

The venue has an ongoing programme of tree planting to add to our arboretum, using planting, felling and conservation methods to create additional wildlife habitats where possible.