Browse through our blog posts to find out what life is like at Hoe Grange Holidays along with some great ideas for days out in the Peak District.
This week we teamed up with a fellow Peak District Environmental Quality Mark member, (like-minded sustainable businesses with a passion for The Peak District) Cath Lee from Peak Walking Adventures, to offer a back to nature, Bear Grylls type, wild camping experience. Cath offers a wide range of guided walks, trek training walks and wild camping for all abilities and her knowledge really brings the experience to life, so we were delighted to be able to offer one of our walled, wooded copses for her semi-wild camping two day walk. [caption i...
Exciting news! We are proud to announce that Hoe Grange Holidays was awarded a prestigious GoldStar Award for the 'best Self Catering Accommodation’ at the Green Tourism conference 2014. [caption id="attachment_4062" align="aligncenter" width="629"] Receiving our GoldStar Award from Satish Kumar[/caption] Finalists were selected from the highest qualifying tourism businesses assessed last year against rigourous criteria for their innovation, cost savings and green ambassadorship. The Judges then selected the most sustainable busines...
Exciting News! Shortlisted for the GTBS Goldstar Awards 2014 Hoe Grange Holidays has been shortlisted for the annual Goldstar Awards by GTBS (Green Tourism Business Scheme), the world's leading, most credible* sustainable tourism accreditation programme. Hoe Grange Holidays represents one of the highest scoring Gold Award self-catering businesses graded during 2013 throughout the UK and Ireland. We are absolutely delighted as businesses cannot enter the awards they are selected solely by GTBS on the score they attain at their grading visit. ...
With great advances in electric car technology it's now even possible to explore the hilly Peak District in Eco-friendly style. Our friend has had this BMW3i on demonstration and bought it up to show us. With a range of over 140 miles at around 1p per mile and zero road tax, it makes great sense. And by plugging it into our renewable electricity source it becomes almost free to drive! Charging the next generation of Electric cars at Hoe Grange Hoe Grange has been a listed member of the Zero Carbon World network of car charging points for two y...
David and I are feeling like celebrities as we have been featured in The Derbyshire magazine as part of their "At home with" series - two double page spreads with glossy photos explaining how the decision to diversify our original farming business with the addition of self-catering log cabins has led to the creation of one of the top 20 green tourism businesses in the UK. It was exciting being interviewed and David was able to explain that building log cabins was originally an idea his father had over 50 years ago, but he was refused planning ...