Plastic Recycling

Here at Skiddaw View Holiday Home Park we encourage our customers to use the new plastic recycling facilities; as a result of local council's lack of plastic recycling facilities we have now established a relationship with Solway Recycling Ltd.

Solway Recycling Ltd turn the plastic into a range of products such as garden furniture and equipment, bins, sheep pens, dog houses and much more.

Red Squirrel Conservation

Skiddaw View Holiday Home Park is proud to announce that after a number of rumoured sightings of red squirrels on the park we now have photographic evidence as seen below. Skiddaw View has also consulted with the Red Squirrel Conservation Partnership and after which we have installed a number of nesting boxes and feeding stations in various locations around the park, to encourage the squirrels stay.

David Bellamy Gold Award

Skiddaw View was awarded the prestigious David Bellamy Gold Award in 2006 and we are working hard to retain this award in future years.
Over the past few years we have planted over four thousand trees and shrubs around the park, planting new trees and shrubs is an ongoing program, we have various types of planting all to encourage wildlife. Buddleias to attract the butterfly Holly to encourage small birds like Wrens and Robins. We have various types of hedgerows Beech, hawthorn, conifer which make homes for all kinds of wild life.

We have installed various types of bird boxes around the park also we have installed bat and owl boxes. We do have a barn owl that lives close to the park.

We have areas of un-mown grass around the park where you will find lots of wildlife, other frequent visitors to the park are Rabbit’s, hare, frogs, toads, small garden birds like sparrow & chaffinch, sparrow hawk, kestrel & woodpecker.

We strongly encourage guests to recycle while staying with us, we have facilities for paper, glass, cans and a compost bin where guests can dispose of bio degradable products like teabags, fruit & veg peelings.
We are continually striving to make improvements in the operation of the park to lessen our impact on the surrounds and generally make the park a haven for wildlife.

We want future generations to enjoy the countryside as we do.

Tourism & Conservation Partnership

During the summer of 2006 we became a member of the tourism and conservation partnership.

The partnership consists of tourism and associated businesses that offer their customers the opportunity to directly support landscape conservation within Cumbria.

During 2006/7 we have raised over £1000.00 for the Dubbs Moss Nature Reserve near Cockermouth.

Dubbs Moss is a naturally damp hollow surrounded by farmland. It was purchased by Cumbria Wildlife Trust in 1972. Three main habitats are present. The western part of the reserve is covered by birch woodland. The shade cast by the trees, combined with the wet ground gives ideal conditions for mosses and ferns to flourish. Male fern, hard fern and narrow buckler fern and the mosses Thuidium tamariscinum and Polytrichum commone are amongst the commonest.

Moving east, the woodland opens out into fen grassland with taller plants such as yellow iris, meadowsweet, valerian, angelica, common spotted orchid and evil's-bit scabious.

The ground rises towards the eastern side, providing drier conditions. The grassland is quite different here with early purple orchid, cowslip, knapweed and betony. Hawthorn scrub, encrusted with many different lichens, has also become established.

This variety of habitats makes the reserve interesting for birds. Most of the common species of tit can be seen in the woods, and the rarer willow tit also breeds here. Warblers including whitethroat, blackcap, chiffchaff, willow, garden grasshopper and sedge warbler, return each year from Africa to breed. In winter, flocks of fieldfares and redwings feed on the hawthorn berries. Roe deer are seen on the reserve quite frequently. On sunny days in summer ringlet and small pearl-bordered fritillary butterflies are abundant on the wet grassland. The reserve is also important for other invertebrates such as beetles, spiders and moths.