A HEREFORDSHIRE wedding venue has been nominated for a series of awards for driving for a greener future.

Herefordshire events venue Crumplebury's focus on sustainability and responsible estate management has been recognised.

It has been shortlisted for January's 2023 Greengage Insights and Sustainability Awards, in the sustainability initiative of the year accommodation and meetings venues category.

It is also in the running for best business and conferencing venue in the 2022 and 2023 Visit Worcestershire Tourism Awards, due to be announced in March.

Ledbury Reporter: Four EV charging points have been installed in the car park and state-of-the-art devices Four EV charging points have been installed in the car park and state-of-the-art devices

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The venue is also a finalist in the 2022 Travel and Hospitality Awards.

The 11-bedroom events and wedding venue in Whitbourne, with its own farm-to-fork fine dining restaurant, organic farm, forestry operation and game shoot, opened in 2019.

The build, by Worcester architects Glazzards, was designed to carefully sit within the historic landscape of the Whitbourne Estate, which provided timber for the well-insulated spaces.

Biomass boilers – fed by waste timber from the Whitbourne Estate forestry operation – heat the buildings and a borehole drilled last spring supplies all water for the site.

Four EV charging points have been installed in the car park and state-of-the-art devices limit light and noise pollution from the buildings.

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The new Crumplebury Canopy Project encourages guests to offset the carbon emissions created as they travel to the venue by planting trees in the managed woodland, and a fresh initiative to create an outdoor boardroom is under way.

"We're absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for these awards, which recognise our commitment to the environment," said managing director Joe Evans, who returned to Whitbourne with his wife and children to reimagine the estate following a career in finance in the far east.

"When we built Crumplebury, it was our aim to create spaces which offer a refreshing break from the norm, whether you're here for a corporate event, dinner, weekend away or a wedding.

"Our private estate, surrounded by 1,500 acres of woodland, green fields and the animals on our home farm, makes for indoor and outdoor spaces which create a working environment with a difference."