Barely a 12 months after opening its doorways, Inhabit, Queen’s Gardens in Bayswater, London, has achieved a Inexperienced Key Award, the worldwide environmental award introduced by Inexperienced Key England.
Inhabit’s imaginative and prescient is to assist and develop greatest practices in wellness, sustainability and social connectedness throughout the wider neighborhood, with the intention to encourage others and alter our world collectively.
The model’s authentic flagship lodge, Inhabit, Southwick Road, in Paddington, achieved a Inexperienced Key award shortly after opening in 2019, and has not too long ago been accredited B Corp standing, one of many first motels in London to attain this constructive marker. Inhabit, Queen’s Gardens is the second Inhabit
property to open, across the nook from its sister lodge in Bayswater, and is proud to have additionally met the stringent standards of the Inexperienced Key awards.
Inhabit, Queen’s Gardens has been created with a ardour for wellbeing and residing in a manner that helps a wholesome thoughts and physique, in addition to modelling accountable hospitality practices. The general public areas embody a plant-heavy, meat-free restaurant from retreat gurus Yeotown, comfy lounge space for visitors and the area people to socialize and work in, and a noise-free library stocked with thought-provoking reads spanning wellness, meditation, social enterprise, holistic well being, up to date artwork, philosophy, native London and nature. A subterranean wellness space supplies therapy rooms, a health suite and yoga studio.
Mindfully designed for the trendy traveller, the whole lot has been thought of with a real dedication to environmental initiatives and significant neighborhood partnerships. For instance – the terrazzo mantelpiece within the foyer has been created from rubble faraway from the positioning that the lodge sits on, by social enterprise Granby Workshop.
Nonetheless water dispensers sit on every ground, the place visitors can refill the glass bottles which might be accessible 
of their rooms. These dispensers, in addition to putting off plastic bottles, are equipped by BELU, a social enterprise that invests its revenue into saving carbon emissions from getting into the ambiance, championing a round financial system, and in ending water poverty.
Mini bars are stocked by Social Grocery store, whose snacks and drinks are all made by small social enterprises. Certainly the lodge works with social enterprises and small, socially-conscious companies wherever attainable, together with Goldfinger, Kalinko and Who Offers A Crap, with a objective to collaborate with no less than 100 social enterprises by the tip of 2023. 
Inexperienced Key units the usual for excellence within the discipline of environmental duty and sustainable operation throughout the 
tourism sector. Through the rigorous judging, every institution is assessed towards strict requirements, which
are set by the worldwide Basis for Environmental Training (FEE) and backed by the World Tourism Organisation and the UN Setting Programme. These standards embody workers involvement, visitor info and sustainable administration of vitality, waste, water, cleansing merchandise, meals and drinks. By making greener selections, every institution is ready to considerably cut back their environmental impression, lowering the consumption of vitality and water and enhance their visitors’ expertise.
Resort Supervisor Noticed Than feedback
“We’re proud to have been awarded the Inexperienced Key certification for Inhabit, Queen’s Gardens only a 12 months after opening our doorways. This award is a big achievement for our workforce and proves that stunning design and sustainability can go hand in hand. We hope we will encourage different motels internationally to share our imaginative and prescient to be a accountable hospitality model that strives for change for good.”
