At HBT we have been working to reduce our environmental impact in the following ways

Tree Planting & Investment in Carbon Avoidance Projects

From 2023 onwards we have pledged to plant at least one tree for each member of staff we employ each year.  In 2023 alone we have planted over 1000 trees. 

We have partnered with Ecologi to plant trees on our behalf around the world, and we have also invested money into three different carbon avoidance projects, to offset some of our transport related CO2 emissions.

Our virtual forest, which provides information about the trees we have planted, and the carbon avoidance projects we have invested in, can be viewed here:  https://ecologi.com/hotelbelltent

Avoiding Landfill, & Tent Donation

At Hotel Bell Tent less than 1% of tents end up in being thrown away at the end of their life in the field housing customers, making our tents a much more ecological option to general camping at events.  This is achieved by a number of ways; selling old stock, recycling parts from old tents (making canvas bags, sewing kit bags etc), and donating tents to charity.

Our chosen charity is The Flying Seagull Project (https://www.theflyingseagullproject.com/) who redistribute our tents to refugee camps in places like Greece, where they are used to house refugees in transit. 

Offsetting Transport Related CO2 Emissions

Hotel Bell Tent will endeavour to reduce the impact on the environment wherever possible with respect to transport by eliminating unnecessary and inefficient use of vehicles. Car-Pooling is promoted to all staff members, and is also financially incentivised through a higher rate per mile payment, raising incrementally with the number of staff members in the vehicle. Wherever possible car-pooling will be implemented, and if this is not possible public transport will be used.

In 2023 we offset all full time staff travel-related CO2 (10T) and all freelance management travel-related CO2 (15T), and aim to do this and more every year from now on.

Using Less Single Use Plastics

After assessing where we used the most single use plastics within the company, in 2023 we changed the way we transport the majority of our main product – Bell Tents – to drastically reduce our environmental impact in this area.  We have also reduced our use of shrink-wrap single use plastics across other items of stock.

Hotel Bell Tent has also removed toiletries packs from tents at almost all events, as well as ear plugs and eye masks now only being available on request, to reduce the amount of event-related waste that we create at each project.