Family adventure vacation to France

Planet

The principles of our organization are founded on sustainability, personal growth and community. Our vacations seems to magnetically draw like minded people with an interest in these things so there is always a friendly and supportive eco-friendly atmosphere here.

We donate up to £1500p.a. to charities and individuals supporting positive global change.

We ensure all of our trips are accessible by train and car from the UK.

On our hikes, we collect any rubbish we see, and we teach 'no impact' travel in the outdoors. We encourage kids to take responsibility, in a fun way, for themselves, for the people around them and for nature.

Our summer food is largely organic, local and wholly vegan or vegetarian but most meat eaters forget this after a few days! We promote healthy eating. We also ask everyone to bring their own refillable water bottles.

We ask our guests to be aware of their electricity and hot water consumption when they are with us.

We recycle and compost. We encourage families to take the train offering free local transport for up to 8 people in the summer and free local travel in the winter Most families self drive and car pool where possible.

Our office only uses green energy.

We recycle in the office and on all of our trips. We encourage all of our local suppliers to be as eco as possible.

People

We lived in Samoens, The Alps for many years and know the way of life and language of the local people. On this trip we sometimes bring the children to an authentic Savoyard subsistence farm to collect raw milk and meet the farmer and some of the cows!

One night we always encourage our guests to experience the local restaurants and cuisine and we suggest the more subsistence and authentic farm restaurants who are maintaining the local culture and traditions to spread the tourism income to those most in need. We also spend the night in a catered refuge, do the ropes course, white water raft and use local guides and companies when possible.