Trethem Mill Touring Park is absolutely delighted to announce that it has been chosen as a finalist in the forthcoming Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2010. This means the Park will definitely walk away with either Gold or Silver in the category “Caravan/Holiday Park of the Year”.

All the national finalists announced were selected from over 100 regional winners submitted by regional tourist boards and were rigorously assessed by independent assessors and a team of judges to make it through to the final. All the winners will be unveiled at a glittering awards ceremony held in the Corn Exchange at The Brighton Dome on 23rd April in celebration of St George’s Day.

The judging panel said:

These awards really showcase the wealth of high quality and affordable holiday experiences on offer in England today.

The judges were impressed with the huge, continued investment made by tourism businesses across all categories in spite of the recession. These finalists demonstrate how successful that commitment to quality has been and we feel that the results reflect the very best that England has to offer

This news follows hot on the heels of the two other Gold awards the Park has recently won – Caravan Park of the Year 2009 with both the Cornwall and Southwest Tourism Awards.

The team at The Orchards Holiday Park is delighted with the response to their new Facilities Centre.

Completed on schedule in April 2009, the new Facilities Centre provides visitors with a range of top quality amenities that will enhance their holiday experience, whilst also encompassing the latest in green technology. The building itself is a striking combination of a modern barn-like design whilst also being sympathetic to the surrounding countryside.

It consists of shower and washbasin cubicles, toilets, family bathroom and family shower room, baby changing/bathing room, accessible toilet and shower room. A large self-service launderette/ironing area, washing up and veg prep area have fantastic views across rolling countryside. There is also a hikers and bikers clothes/boots drying room.

Great care has been taken to include many energy saving initiatives into the planning. The Facilities Centre has solar panels, which pre-heat the hot water; it has non-concussive, flow reducing taps and shower heads, low energy light bulbs activated by PIRs and a condensing boiler. It also has the luxury of under-floor heating throughout.

It was important to the Orchards team to ensure that local businesses and local tradesmen were used at each stage of construction.

2009 was a good year for The Orchards as the holiday park was highly-commended at The South East Excellence awards and also received an 8^th David Bellamy award for conservation.

Lincoln Farm Park in the High Street in the village of Standlake – has been named as the best campsite in the 2010 AA Caravan and Camping Britain and Ireland Guide awards.

Stephen and April Wilders quit their cleaning business and spent two years travelling the country to find the perfect park and settled on Lincoln Farm park two years ago.

The park, which has just re-opened for the season, is run by Mr and Mrs Wilders together with wardens Brian and Pauline Johnson and Mike and Chrissie Pillin and the site’s nine acres of grounds are maintained by Gordon Waldford.

The AA award was judged by a group of inspectors, and Lincoln Farm Park was cited as the overall winner because of its standards of maintenance and high levels of customer service.

It was the second time the campsite has won the award as previous owner, Jeff Hawkins, won it in 2002.

The 90-pitch park has two indoor swimming pools, a fully-equipped gym, a pitch and putt area and a games room, as well as an animal corner, with chickens, quails and rabbits, and a playing field.

We are delighted to announce that Best of British members, Woodovis and Wareham Forest were Highly Commended winners in The Alan Rogers 2009 Campsite Awards at Vakantiebeurs in Utrecht recently.

This is particularly impressive as they beat off competition from 2000 parks in 13 countries to be the only two UK parks out of the 31 winners across the various categories.

Woodovis Park in Tavistock, Devon were runner-up in the Alan Rogers Welcome Award, which takes account of parks offering a particularly friendly welcome and maintaining a friendly ambience throughout readers’ holidays.

The judges described the park as:

‘an exceptional site where a friendly welcome is guaranteed. The site has a magnificent location in the grounds of Woodovis House. All staff are very welcoming and a range of top class amenities are on offer including an excellent indoor swimming pool.’

Wareham Forest Tourist Park, Wareham, Dorset were runner-up in the Alan Rogers Country Award which is given to parks which are attractively located in pleasant, rural locations.

The judges described Wareham Forest as

‘a peacefully located and spacious campsite on the edge of Wareham Forest. There are a number of excellent amenities and direct access to many footpaths and cycle tracks including the Sika trail, named after the rare deer living in the forest. Even at busy times, this is a peaceful choice for a family holiday in a superb setting.’

The Alan Rogers Campsite Awards are designed to reflect the variety and the values which are conveyed in their guides.  More than 2000 campsites featured in their 2009 guides and in deciding on the winners for the various categories, comments from their campsite assessors, their head office team and, of course, their readers were all taken into account.

Three members of the Best of British Touring & Holiday Parks Group, a marketing group of 50 Five star, privately owned prestigious parks throughout the UK, have taken the top Gold & Silver prizes at the South West Tourism Excellence Awards 2009-2010, with another Best of British park, Dolbeare, at Saltash also qualifying as a finalist.

Trethem Mill Touring Park at St Just in Roseland near St Mawes, is very proud to have received the Gold award at the recent ceremony at Saunton Sands Hotel in Devon.  This came hot on the heels of the park winning Gold at the Cornwall Tourism Awards a few weeks earlier.

Ian Akeroyd, owner of Trethem Mill said: “We are absolutely delighted that our continued commitment and investment in the Park has been recognised.  These awards have shown that we are at the forefront of our industry.”

Woodovis Park in Tavistock, Devon, took the Silver award, which was presented to the owners, John and Dorothy Lewis, by Gill Williams, Travel Editor of the Sunday Mirror.

Peter and Simon Dewhirst from Dornafield at Newton Abbot, were also delighted to receive a Silver award.

The Chairman of the Best of British Group, Claire Jeavons, said:

‘I am extremely delighted that Best Of British took all the places at the Awards ceremony this year,  beating off competition from over 300 parks from across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.  All Best of British parks, pride themselves on going that extra mile for our customers and are all committed to providing the highest quality holidays for their visitors.’

Best of British parks have dominated the South West Tourism Excellence Awards, as Trethem Mill Touring Park at St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, Dornafield at Newton Abbot, Devon and Woodovis Park at Tavistock, Devon make up the three winners in the Holiday Park of the Year category.

The three parks are absolutely delighted to receive such an accolade and the Best of British Touring & Holiday Parks Group is proud to have them in membership.

Congratulations are also due to another Best of British park, Dolbeare at Saltash, Cornwall,which reached the finalist stage.

Alistair Handyside, Chairman of South West Tourism, said "Winning at the regional awards is a great achievement for any business, especially so in these economic times. These businesses have shown that customer care, staff training and continued investment have not faltered but have grown and they are committed to exceeding visitor expectations".

The Awards ceremony is being held on 23rd November at the Saunton Sands Hotel, Devon, when the three parks will find out if they have won the Gold or Silver Award.

We are delighted and extremely proud to announce that Trethem Mill Touring Park have been awarded GOLD for “Caravan Park of the Year 2009” at the Cornwall Tourism Awards. The awards celebrate everything Cornish and aim to promote and reward the very best in the tourism industry.

Trethem Mill has established quite a record at the awards, which have been running since 2002. We are very proud to have won Gold each of the six times we have entered, past wins have also been for our website www.trethem.com.

The awards ceremony was held at the Headland Hotel Newquay, where TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp was guest speaker.