The National Mountain Centre

Plas y Brenin is a residential outdoor centre owned by Sport England. It is managed by the Mountain Training Trust, a charity committed to providing the widest range of outdoor opportunities offering the best value. The centre accommodates up to 100 people residentially and up to 100 visitors on a day visit or community use basis. The Centre has many facilities on site which is over 27 acres, some of which is designated as a SSSI. The Centre employs approximately 100 people who live in the local area. Plas y Brenin overlooks Snowdon and the Staff work closely with Snowdonia National Park, The National Trust, Forest Enterprise and all the local land owners and farmers that are close to the Centre.

Key Environmental Impacts
Oil, electricity and gas consumption and associated waste
Water consumption and associated waste
Landfill from packaging, general and office waste

Environmental Improvement
We will commit to long term environmental improvement and pollution prevention.
We will continually monitor fuel consumption and set targets for fuel use reduction.
We will encourage recycling in all our operations.

Legislation
The Centre will commit to legislative compliance at all times and use this to improve performance.

Education
The Centre aims to develop and sustain environmental awareness in staff and visitors through its educational programmes.

Recycling at Plas y Brenin:
Glass, paper and plastic can be recycled using the appropriate recycling bin under the canopy.
Batteries can be recycled using the battery recycling bin in the stores.
Print cartridges can be recycled at reception.

Our environmental improvement plans

Click on the thumbnail below to take a close look at our our environmental improvement plan for 2009

click on the thumbnail to take a close look at our Our environmental improvement plan

Click on the thumbnail below to take a close look at our our environmental improvement plan for 2008

	Work For British Cycling

	Earn bags of money working as one of many British Cycling Recreation Education Tutors. Find out more on our jobs page.

	Discount Mountain Leader Training Places For Snowdonia Society Members.

	A great opportunity for local residents to enjoy some affordable non-residential mountain leader training.

	Summer Ale Unveiled

	We have just introduced the fourth real ale in our range 'Lush Summer', a light refreshing real ale flavoured with well-sucked limes.

	Snowdonia Uncorked

	Our latest offers include a return for this walking and wine tasting weekend this April

	Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust Subsidised Alpine Courses For Young People.

	Dates out now. Fill in your application form and grab yourself a bargain.

	Discounted Courses For BMC Members

	HIllwalking, Navigation GPS and even Scrambling. The BMC have arranged a series of BMC member special courses at Plas y Brenin

	UKClimbing Alpine Festival

	We have teamed up with UKClimbing to bring you a weekend of information-rich Alpine workshops.

	Kitchen Assistants Wanted

	We're on the look out for some assistants to help out in our busy kitchens

	Top Tips on Lowering off a Bolted Route

	Ben Lawes gives you his top tips on how to get down from the top of a bolted route.

	Rack em up!

	In our Top Tips section Ian Boorman offers a few of his tips on racking your gear for multi pitch climbing

	What's Cooking?

	Find out what makes our award winning catering department so special in our latest departmental overview

	Outstanding Facilities

	We make sure everything at the National Mountain Centre is maintained at the highest standard. Check out our facilities page here.

	Bunkhouse Gets a Makeover

	Moelwyn Bunkhouse has been refurbished and it looks great! You could be one of the first to take advantage of this superb on-site facility.

	Check Out The Enviro Diary!

	Our staff bring you snippets of the great environment we live and work in diarised in photographic form. Essential viewing for all nature lovers - Now with over 230 pages of content.

	Think you know your stuff?

	Find out how much you really know in our new interactive quiz area

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Plas y Brenin • The National Mountain Centre • Capel Curig • Conwy • LL24 OET Tel: 01690 720214 Fax: 01690 720394 E-mail: info@pyb.co.uk

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