Is your business Nature Friendly?
You could benefit from free enhanced promotion
We'd like to celebrate and promote businesses who meet or exceed a set of requirements based on facilities, services and information. The aim is to ensure that visitors can easily access information specifically relating to nature, highlighting businesses that offer facilities to meet the needs of nature lovers.
If you offer the right facilities, services and information, you can sign up to the Nature Friendly scheme free. Once accepted, you'll get the Nature Friendly logo to use on your website, window sticker, and be included on an interactive map on the North York Moors National Park website with a link to your website.
We've got a number of categories for Nature Friendly - cafes, tea rooms and pubs, accommodation providers and activity providers. You can apply for all of them if you wish!
The North York Moors Nature Friendly scheme is part of a wider EARFD-funded project to promote outdoor activities.
The aim is to boost tourism by working with businesses to collectively promote the area’s special character and encourage visitors to explore the area in more depth, staying longer and spending more, all year round.
If you offer the right facilities, services and information, you can sign up to the Nature Friendly scheme free. Once accepted, you'll get the Nature Friendly logo to use on your website, window sticker, and be included on an interactive map on the North York Moors National Park website with a link to your website.
We've got a number of categories for Nature Friendly - cafes, tea rooms and pubs, accommodation providers and activity providers. You can apply for all of them if you wish!
The North York Moors Nature Friendly scheme is part of a wider EARFD-funded project to promote outdoor activities.
The aim is to boost tourism by working with businesses to collectively promote the area’s special character and encourage visitors to explore the area in more depth, staying longer and spending more, all year round.
What to do next
Take a look at the relevant details for your type of business to make sure you offer suitable facilities & services.
Download details of Nature Friendly for accommodation providers
Download details of Nature Friendly for pubs, cafes, and tea rooms
Download details of Nature Friendly for activity providers
Complete the form and either email to Mike Hawtin m.hawtin@northyorkmoors.org.uk or post to Mike Hawtin, North York Moors National Park, The Old Vicarage, Bondgate, Helmsley, York YO62 5BP
Mike will double check your application. We may ask you for some supporting evidence in the form of photos.
Once your application is accepted you'll receive the logo and more information about how you'll benefit.
The logo and any copy on your website should link to https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/nature
Businesses will also work together for example to create local nature walks that link Nature Friendly accommodation providers with cafés, tea rooms and pubs. Additional resources such as business contacts (for collaboration), nature images and downloadable nature trails are also available to help you promote walking activities to existing and prospective guests or customers.
Download details of Nature Friendly for accommodation providers
Download details of Nature Friendly for pubs, cafes, and tea rooms
Download details of Nature Friendly for activity providers
Complete the form and either email to Mike Hawtin m.hawtin@northyorkmoors.org.uk or post to Mike Hawtin, North York Moors National Park, The Old Vicarage, Bondgate, Helmsley, York YO62 5BP
Mike will double check your application. We may ask you for some supporting evidence in the form of photos.
Once your application is accepted you'll receive the logo and more information about how you'll benefit.
The logo and any copy on your website should link to https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/nature
Businesses will also work together for example to create local nature walks that link Nature Friendly accommodation providers with cafés, tea rooms and pubs. Additional resources such as business contacts (for collaboration), nature images and downloadable nature trails are also available to help you promote walking activities to existing and prospective guests or customers.
Resources
As you've considered targeting wildlife visitors, or visitors who could enjoy wildlife, there are some simple things you could be doing to attract this ready-made market. The Nature Tourism Business Toolkit will give you practical advice to help you use Yorkshire's stunning range of wildlife and growing network of industry-leading facilities to attract more visitors, encourage them to come back and effectively grow your business.
Funding for this project has been secured from the Rural Development Programme for England, funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD): Europe investing in rural areas.
