our principles

We take care to produce and source the finest organic and fairly traded produce from the North West of England. Our aim being to offer the finest produce with as little affect on our environment as possible.

We farm and process our produce organically to Soil Association standards. As an organic producer reducing negative environmental impacts and increasing positive affects is at the forefront of everything we do. We wanted to make sure that this is done within all our business practices i.e. in the office and transport, so joined the Cumbria Business Environmental Network who carried out an audit. We were awarded the first level award – Bronze in April 2008. Everyone starts with bronze and we intend to achieve the silver award before we attend the awards ceremony later this year.

Environmental Policy Statement

Mansergh Hall Farm Shop is a family run organic farm shop retailing and wholesaling organic produce both locally and nationally. As an organic farm environmental impacts are of the utmost importance to our business practices and we commit to continuous improvement.

The partners of Mansergh Hall Farm Shop recognize their responsibility to manage environmental impacts of our activities, products and services. We have assessed our activities and have identified that our significant environmental impacts include:

• The production of CO2, other greenhouse gases & particulates caused mainly by using diesel vehicles, refrigeration and water heating.
• Waste from packaging.
• One of our most positive impacts is production to Soil Association Standards, to which we adhere for our Organic Certification P9189.
• We source products from local producers, as well as “sharing” delivery, collection and distribution of products to reduce emission, congestion, food miles and support the local economy.

In order to promote good environmental practices, our policy with regard the environment is as follows:

1. To assess the significant environmental impacts of our activities.
2. To comply with the requirements of relevant environmental legislation and approved codes of practice relating to our environmental impacts.
3. To reduce pollution, emissions and wastes to disposal facilities. We will continue to re-use, recover or recycle materials where practicable.
4. To reduce the use of packaging, energy and supplies.
5. To ensure our environmental responsibilities are defined, communicated and understood at all levels within the business and to raise awareness, encourage participation and train employees and customers in environmental matters.
6. To expect similar environmental standards from our suppliers.
7. To communicate, co-operate and respond to the views of interested parties on environmental issues, where this is practicable and likely to result in an overall improvement in environmental performance.
8. To continuously seek to improve our overall environmental performance.

Title: Partner of J. Hadwin A. Gorton and S. Gorton T/A Mansergh Hall Farm Shop

Name: Amanda Gorton Date: April 23rd 2008

Who we are....

A family business!! The Hadwin family works as a team and are committed and proud to providing our customers with the finest organically reared produce. Jim, Amanda, Simon and James are partners in mansergh hall organics.

Jim Hadwin

Jim is the boss!! What more can we say, other than it was Jim's foresight back in the late 1980s to be trained by a local butcher and provide whole and half lambs for the freezer that started the ball rolling. Mocked by other farmer's at the time, especially when the old dairy was converted into the farm shop in 1995, there are many that have followed his lead into this kind of diversification. We are very proud of what he has achieved to date, and long may it continue!! Jim lives in Mansergh Hall with his wife Wendy who helps with the business.

James Hadwin and Catherine Mason

Raised at Mansergh Hall James is the eldest son and now lives in Kirkby Lonsdale with his partner Catherine. James is at the heart of the business (and has been since he could walk) doing a bit of everything but his main role is to run the farm, particularly focusing on his pig farming. He works manually and in the office for the mountains of paper work associated with farming these days. Catherine has a full-time job elsewhere but can often be found helping James on the farm and at our promotional events such as shows.

Simon and Amanda Gorton

Amanda is the eldest of the Hadwin children and now lives near Kirkby Lonsdale with husband Simon (our shop manager) and 2 year old daughter Emma. Simon is our shop manager and butcher since 2001. Amanda has been involved with the business since it started, helping her Dad since the age of 13 to pack the lamb for the freezer, but having run the shop for a number of years with Jim, her role is now to run the business from an administrative point of view.

Samantha and James Millar

Samantha is the youngest daughter and now lives with her husband James and their 9 month old daughter Lily, near Kirkby Lonsdale. Sam now works part-time in the office one afternoon a week with Amanda as well as working part-time for the Heritage Lottery Fund. Both have a key role at our promotional events such as shows, as well as behind the scenes.

Ben

Ben is currently studying for his A’ levels but is called upon if he's needed either on the farm or in the shop - he's a very useful person to have a round!