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Become a member

Help us look after the landscape & wildlife that makes Cumbria unique

 

  • We can help you add even more value to you guests experience, letting them know that by choosing your business they are protecting our environment and local communities.
  • We can help you position your company as an ethical and environmentally aware business.
  • Benefit from extra promotion for your business, including a free advertising entry on our website and free listing in our ABC Green Guide to Cumbria (pdf doc 1.8Mb)
  • Support a conservation project and promote projects your business and customers have helped to complete.

To join our organisation all we ask for is an annual membership fee from your businesses together with your commitment to support one of our projects/themes. Our annual membership fee relates to the size of your business and is split into six levels of membership, these are:

 

Associate
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Diamond
Platinum

Each membership level comes with membership benefits. We will also automatically increase your level of membership depending on the amount of fundraising you send us every year.

 

Please select the following for more information about membership:

Supporting a conservation project is designed to be as easy as possible, we can help you find an individual project or you can support one of our themes. By supporting a theme you can help a number of different projects in this category. You can then choose one of our fundraising methods or if you feel these are not right for you we can help design one that is - it's our speciality.

 

Here are a few easy ways that you and your guests/customers can really make a big difference to conservation in Cumbria:

Opt Out A voluntary donation for conservation is added to the bill (guests/customers should always be given the option not to pay it or 'opt out'). This method can be used on any type of bill, whether for accommodation, a walking holiday or a food bill. £1 per person is a good starting point for this method. However, of our existing members have added different sums of money, depending on the business that they operate.
   
Donation Boxes We supply you with a locally produced handmade wooden donation box. You can then encourage your guests/customers to place a donation in the box when they visit you business.
   
Percentage Donation Some of our current members have chosen to donate a percentage of their business profits to conservation. This is an easy way of fundraising for businesses who are unable to implement an 'Opt Out' scheme. For example, a shop might choose a particular product. When this product is bought they will donate 1% of the profits to conservation.
   
Sponsored Products Other members have developed products that they sell and then donate a percentage of the profits to conservation. For example, out door equipment retailer George Fisher of Keswick sells a re useable jute carrier bag. In addition, money will come to the Partnership from sales of the Lake District edition of the popular Inn Way guide.
   
Donation Envelopes This is a new fundraising method which we have recently taken on board. The donation envelopes allow visitors to make any size donation they wish and at the same time make a declaration which will enable us to collect gift aid for their donation. They can be presented to your visitors in the roombrowser or be placed in a prominent place, such as the reception area, of your business.
   
If you would like to join today, all you need to do is complete the Membership Application Form and send it back to us. We will then get in touch before we send out your new membership pack.

If you would like more information on membership & fundraising please contact us.