Highland Carbon Win’s ‘Best UK Carbon Unit Supplier Award’ for Fourth Year in a Row!

14th October 2024

Tickhill-based Highland Carbon is the UK’s pioneer in the supply of conservation-grade carbon credits. Rather than merely carbon farming with a few varieties of trees planted on arable farmland, Highland Carbon restores nature to its former splendour.

Highland Carbon has won the award for ‘Best UK Carbon Unit Supplier’ for each year that it has applied, 2021-2024.  This award recognises its exceptional and vast forest creation and wetland restoration initiatives.  It’s nature projects focused in the Highlands of Scotland when established in 2017.  Today, it has expanded to other parts of the nation, including Yorkshire.

According to its Founder and Managing Director, Richard Clarke, “As an added bonus, we won the ‘2024 Natural Landscape Restoration Award’ on the same day.  This latter award is an acknowledgement of Highland Carbon’s voluntary activities, beyond carbon projects, such as: river bank re-wiggling, creation of river overflow areas, dry meadow restoration, wet meadow restoration and bird nesting box installation.”

Highland Carbon’s award-winning Climate Projects in the spectacular wilds of Scotland, Northern England and Wales offer public access and wellbeing opportunities for communities and tourists with rambling, horse riding and mountain biking trails.  They achieve enormous benefits for biodiversity and nature aesthetics.  They mitigate the risk of flooding and enhance drinking water quality.  They also offer amazing opportunities for ecology and climate education for schools, Scout groups, ramblers and U3A.

Highland Carbon achieves enormous socio-economic impacts.  To date, the millions of pounds of private finance raised by Highland Carbon has released more than £20m in public funding for nature restoration.  Those funds have flowed into the green economy supporting: forestry businesses, ecology assessors, tree nurseries, fencing subcontractors and earth moving equipment operators.  The projects uplift ecotourism whilst benefiting hotels, restaurants, mountain bike rental businesses and outdoor clothing retailers.  The nature projects themselves count towards the UK’s commitment to the United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Highland Carbon is in the process of selling four climate projects presently, with sales contracts in process.  One of these is located at Broughton Hall near Skipton, adjacent to the Yorkshire Dales.  In addition to planting a vast climate forest, this particular estate will be undertaking a wide programme of rewilding including introducing wild ponies, wild boars, heritage cattle and the Eurasian beaver (once their wildlife licence is approved).  The estate is home to a wide range of native wildlife already including otters, trout, deer, red kites, hen harriers, short-eared owls and many more.  It is a major hub for local tourism with many visitors each year for wellbeing and educational programmes.

Richard Clarke is a Board Member of Mind Wellbeing and Trustee of Tickhill Community Connections, both based in South Yorkshire.  Highland Carbon also supports other local causes such as: DARTs (Doncaster’s Performance Arts Charity), The Sleep Charity, Tickhill Hedgehog Rescue, Windy Ridge Bird Rescue and Nottinghamshire (Bird) Ringers.

In Scotland, Highland Carbon sponsors Highland Outdoor & Wilderness Learning and the Beyond Borders Festival.  Highland Carbon funds discrete initiatives in Scotland including habitat rewilding on the Rothiemurchus Estate in Aviemore, the Edible Forest Garden on the Traquair Estate in the Scottish Borders and Emiel’s Memorial Food Forest on the Talladh-a Bheithe Estate in Highland Perthshire.

In addition to its two nodes of local charity support, Highland Carbon donates to various national charities, most recently including The National Trust, Stand Up to Cancer, Breast Cancer Now and the Macmillan Cancer Charity.

Highland Carbon is currently shortlisted for the 2024 ‘Environmental Impact Award’ with Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, having applied for the first time.  It is currently a finalist for the 2024 ‘Green Business of the Year Award’ with Doncaster Chamber of Commerce, an honour that it had won in 2023 and for which it came second in 2022.  It Highland Carbon was a finalist for the ‘South Yorkshire Sustainability Award’ in 2023.

www.highlandcarbon.com

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