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• Climate Week 12-18th March 2012

  Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:21 am Leave a response
  

  Climate Week is Britain’s biggest climate change campaign, inspiring a new wave of action to create a sustainable future.

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• beacon donate over 275kg to The British Heart Foundation

  Posted on February 14, 2012 at 10:30 am Leave a response
  

  In July 2011 the beacon purchasing and Best Western hotels head offices decided to work more closely with the British Heart Foundation and bring a donation bin perminantly into the office…

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• Hospitality at Comet and beacon celebrate 18 year anniversary

  Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:55 pm Leave a response
  

  Hospitality at Comet, part of the well known and respected – Comet Group, are this year celebrating an amazing 18 years of partnership working with beacon purchasing.

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• Fairtrade Fortnight is almost here – get involved

  Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:48 pm Leave a response
  

  The annual Fairtrade Fortnight is due to take place in a few weeks, from 27th February – 11th March 2012. This years Take A Step campaign encourages people to take 1.5 million steps for Fairtrade by the end of 2012. Each step supports farmers and workers take their own steps towards a brighter future. A…

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• beacon join forces with Hotelympia and RHP to offer pledge campaign

  Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:52 pm Leave a response
  

  This year, beacon, Fresh Montgomery and The Responsible Hospitality Partnership are offering hospitality businesses an opportunity to reduce resource consumption and costs as they sign up to Hotelympia.

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• Green tourism organisations join forces

  Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:16 pm Leave a response
  

  Three of the leading green tourism organisations in the UK have joined forces to promote sustainable tourism and hospitality businesses.

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• beacon supplier award winners announced

  Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:54 pm Leave a response
  

  beacon are proud to announce the winners of our fourth annual beacon supplier awards at a celebratory dinner held on Sunday, 22nd January 2012 at the Lancaster London hotel.

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• Recycle your hotel soap and save lives

  Posted on January 25, 2012 at 2:40 pm Leave a response
  

  Every day, almost 3 million bars of hotel soap are thrown away. In the hands of vulnerable populations, that soap can decrease the rate of disease and death. The Global Soap Project is a nonprofit organisation that turns the discarded soap from hotels into new bars and gets them into the hands of the people…

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• How to make your restaurant more eco-friendly

  Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:41 am Leave a response
  

  Eco-friendly policies can often reduce costs as well as your carbon footprint. For example, replacing a traditional light bulb with an energy-efficient light bulb of the same brightness will save you around £3 per year, or £55 over the life of the bulb.* The more bulbs you change, the greater your saving. But there are…

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• beacon and Hospitality Action wish you a Merry Christmas!

  Posted on December 22, 2011 at 2:19 pm Leave a response
  

  Instead of sending our usual e-Christmas card this year, we’ll be making a donation to our chosen charity for 2012 – Hospitality Action.

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