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Travel Daily News
12-06-2025
- Business
- Travel Daily News
Visit Cascais debuts tool to turn travel and events into positive impact
Visit Cascais and Breeze launch 'Cascais for Tomorrow,' a tool helping visitors measure and reduce their environmental impact through local sustainability projects. CASCAIS, PORTUGAL – Visit Cascais, in collaboration with sustainable travel solutions provider Breeze, has launched Cascais for Tomorrow, an innovative tool that enables visitors and event planners to measure the environmental impact of their stay or event and reduce it by supporting local projects in the destination. Cascais, renowned for its stunning coastline, protected landscape and rich cultural heritage, is already considered one of the world's best sustainable tourist destinations. As interest in the region grows, Visit Cascais is dedicated to carefully balancing tourism with the preservation of its natural environment and the quality of life for local residents. Cascais for Tomorrow highlights Visit Cascais' ongoing commitment to sustainability by offering travellers and event organisers an easy way to evaluate their impact. It also inspires users to support local community projects, ensuring every journey and event contributes to a lasting, positive legacy. Powered by Breeze's contribution methodology, the calculator converts users' travel choices into a clear cost per tonne of emissions, offering a simple, tangible summary personalised to each trip or event. Users can then take action to reduce their impact by investing in projects managed by environmental company Cascais Ambiente, which include reforestation, biodiversity restoration, conservation and sustainable land use within Cascais. 'Cascais has the vision to be the best place to live for a day or a lifetime. The entire strategy of the Cascais Municipality is centered around people, ensuring the highest quality of life for everyone who lives, works, studies or visits our region.' said Bernardo Corrêa de Barros, President of Cascais Tourism Board. 'Cascais for Tomorrow is a significant step forward in our commitment to responsible tourism. We are excited to offer this tool, which empowers visitors to reduce their impact and support local initiatives that preserve Cascais as a sustainable and thriving destination'. 'Our unique approach champions hyper-local projects, protecting landscapes and delivering tangible benefits to communities and stakeholders,' said Greg Reeves, CEO of Breeze. 'Importantly, our solution balances affordability and responsibility to enable everyone – from large organisations to solo travellers – to contribute to climate resilience. We're proud to have partnered with Visit Cascais to introduce this innovative tool, helping travellers better understand their environmental impact and be encouraged to make a difference.' Through this initiative, Visit Cascais continues to set a standard for responsible tourism, inviting domestic and international tourists and event professionals to engage with the destination in a way that leaves lasting, meaningful change.
BBC News
12-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Derbyshire community funding scheme faces freeze
War memorial upkeep and lunches for the elderly are among the local schemes that could have their funding scrapped in Derbyshire, amid a planned anti-waste drive from the new Reform UK administration. The Community Leadership Scheme enables individual councillors to access funding for projects that benefit the local area. It is understood a council officer confirmed the scheme was on hold in an email to a councillor who was seeking to access the Derbyshire spokesperson Stephen Reed told the BBC that the party were committed to "reviewing everything". He added: "We know how vital these grants are to the community and they are an important part [of] supporting vital services."Reform UK has pledged to carry out audits of the local council budgets it will soon control after winning several councils in the local elections, in an attempt to combat wasteful scheme currently costs Derbyshire County Council about £120,000 each it is among the areas whose funding is facing uncertainty as the authority's new Reform leaders assess where money can be saved on the council's books. The leader of Derbyshire Conservatives, Alex Dale, said the scheme was "a lifeline for countless grass roots projects". "Putting this scheme under review is worrying and suggests Reform are clearly unaware of the positive impact it's had on Derbyshire communities."The Conservatives defended their decision to halve funding for the scheme in the past as "a responsible move to reduce council costs", adding that "it was preserved due to its direct and tangible benefits to local people." A British Legion branch in the High Peak area received £4,880 from the fund to carry out specialist essential repairs to a war memorial in Chapel-en-le-Frith's market place, which is central to annual commemoration events. The remainder of the cost is being covered by supporters of the Adshead, a local parish councillor, said paying for the costly repairs would not have been possible without the fund."It's a major part of our town... it's important we keep these monuments in tip top condition. It's the very least we can do."I would ask [Reform] to think long and hard before they make any drastic decisions." The Friends of Dronfield group have received funding from the scheme for the past few years, which is used to host Christmas lunches for roughly 40 local elderly residents to combat loneliness during the festive cost about £900 to run, half of which has been funded by the Goater, who organises the events, said groups like his would struggle without the funding."The community is very important. I know that funds are tight, but there are a lot of people out there doing good things. We should be celebrating that." Reform UK will take control of the council on 21 May after winning 42 seats on the authority in the local County Council were approached for comment.
BBC News
07-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Community champions in Waverley urged to apply for new scheme
Community champions urged to apply for new scheme Those chosen will get use of facilities at their local leisure centres to help them carry out their projects A new "community champion" scheme offering free use of leisure centres in parts of Surrey for local projects is calling for people to apply. Everyone Active, which runs leisure centres in Haslemere, Godalming, Farnham and Cranleigh, has launched its Community Champions initiative, aiming to "recognise the dedication of those who go above and beyond". Those involved in mentoring, promoting health and wellbeing, supporting inclusivity or leading environmental or cultural projects are urged to apply for the scheme, which is run in partnership with Waverley Borough Council. Successful applicants will secure use of facilities at their local leisure centres to help them carry out their projects.
