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ECO TRAVEL NETWORK LIMITED

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ECO TRAVEL NETWORK LIMITED (08051441)

ECO TRAVEL NETWORK

Phone: 01497 842 935
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ABOUT ECO TRAVEL NETWORK LIMITED

in Hereford, the Eco Travel Network was launched in July 2012 with 6 brand new Renault Twizys. These exciting “urban chic” quadricycles are happily discovering “rural chic”in the rolling hills and country lanes of Wales!

Members of the Eco Travel Network (ETN) are mostly local accomodation providers - hotels, B&B, self-catering cottages, bunkhouses and caravan and camping sites. The ETN offers two types of membership:-

- these members pay a full up-front membership fee and and host a Twizy full-time bearing their own livery.  They rent it out to their visiting guests on a daily or weekly basis and use it for themselves and their staff inbetween. The eye-catching nature of the Twizy makes it an ideal promotional tool for businesses.

How does the Eco Travel Network work?

Eco Travel Network Ltd (ETN) is a not-for-profit company which owns and insures a fleet of lightweight electric vehicles for self-drive hire. Tourist businesses can become members of the ETN and lease a vehicle (on either a long term or shorter term basis) to rent out to their visiting customers as an alternative to using their cars.

The businesses keep the revenue from the visitor rental. It is difficult for tourist businesses to obtain self-drive hire insurance for an individual vehicle. The ETN overcomes that problem for them. The aims of the ETN are as follows:

To grow an electric vehicle rental and charging network across the National Park based on existing tourist businesses. 

Eco Travel Network Ltd has 4 Directors: Ian Foster of

As the amount of electricity generated in rural wales from solar, hydro and wind grows, it is good to know that a single set of 4kW domestic solar PV panels will provide all the power a Twizy needs or can practically use.

(local cafes, pubs, activity providers and attractions) where b-bugs could get a top up charge and their drivers could enjoy a meal or an activity.

Both visitors and tourist businesses were keen to see b-bug rental continue but self-drive hire insurance proved a problem for individual hotels and campsites who wanted to purchase and run a single vehicle.

The solution, it emerged, was to set up a separate company (now the Eco Travel Network) which would be able to insure a fleet of vehicles and then effectively lease them out to tourist businesses to hire (in turn) to their customers.

The Network approach also has the advantage of sharing the costs of a vehicle rental programme across multiple small businesses and of ensuring that the National Park is offering eco-travel alternatives

The putative Eco Travel Network was then awarded partial start up funding by the Brecon Beacons Sustainable Development Fund in April 2012. Everyone was keen to see the scheme launched this summer but, unfortunately, supply problems meant that the b-bugs we hoped to use to kick off the scheme, couldn’t be available in time and so we approached Renault UK about starting the scheme with a fleet of their newly launched Twizys as this is currently the only mainstream UK electric vehicle which fits the criteria of being fun, low energy and relatively low cost.  We hope the visitors will enjoy it as much as they enjoyed the b-bugs.

The plan for the Eco Travel Network is to expand over time to include a wide variety of eco-funky vehicles with more business members distributed over a wider area.

We are busily growing a top up charging network for the local vehicles – this continues to be based on local tourist businesses.

The Eco Travel Network (ETN) is about reducing the amount of energy we use to move ourselves around. This will be necessary as energy prices increase, but it doesn’t have to be worthy and dull.

Ian Foster, Alison Kidd and Peter Williams are Founding Directors of the Eco Travel Network.

Eco Travel Network - Low Carbon Road Transport Initiative of the Year winners

The Eco Travel Network offers fun, lightweight, eco friendly travel across the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Visitors to the Brecon Beacons are welcome to hire one of our fleet of Renault Twizys  from local tourist business partners across the Park.

We provide an informal, 13amp charging network across the area with people who share our vision for funky eco transport and are happy to provide you with a top up charge for your Twizy. This network also provides our visitors with an interesting choice of attractions to visit, activities to try and places to eat and drink. You can find a map of Twizy charge points

Thank you for your interest in the Eco Travel Network. We will respond to your query as soon as possible.

KEY FINANCES

Year
2017
Assets
£15.44k ▼ £-2.44k (-13.64 %)
Cash
£0k ▼ £-17.12k (-100.00 %)
Liabilities
£16.8k ▼ £-10.08k (-37.51 %)
Net Worth
£-1.36k ▼ £7.64k (-84.89 %)

REGISTRATION INFO

Company name
ECO TRAVEL NETWORK LIMITED
Company number
08051441
Status
Active
Categroy
Private Limited Company
Date of Incorporation
30 Apr 2012
Age - 12 years
Home Country
United Kingdom

CONTACTS

Website
ecotravelnetwork.co.uk
Phones
01497 842 935
Registered Address
BROOKLANDS ALBION TERRACE,
HAY-ON-WYE,
HEREFORD,
HEREFORDSHIRE,
HR3 5AP

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

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Renting and leasing of cars and light motor vehicles

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LAST EVENTS

28 Feb 2017
Total exemption small company accounts made up to 30 April 2016
05 May 2016
Annual return made up to 30 April 2016 with full list of shareholders Statement of capital on 2016-05-05 GBP 3
22 Jan 2016
Total exemption small company accounts made up to 30 April 2015

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Last update 2018

ECO TRAVEL NETWORK LIMITED DIRECTORS

Ian Anthony Foster

  Acting
Appointed
30 April 2013
Role
Secretary
Address
Brooklands, Albion Terrace, Hay-On-Wye, Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom, HR3 5AP
Name
FOSTER, Ian Anthony

Andrew Gilbert Chambers

  Acting
Appointed
01 November 2012
Occupation
Retired
Role
Director
Age
83
Nationality
British
Address
Brooklands, Albion Terrace, Hay-On-Wye, Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom, HR3 5AP
Country Of Residence
Wales
Name
CHAMBERS, Andrew Gilbert

Ian Anthony Foster

  Acting
Appointed
30 April 2012
Occupation
Designer
Role
Director
Age
59
Nationality
British
Address
Brooklands, Albion Terrace, Hay-On-Wye, Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom, HR3 5AP
Country Of Residence
United Kingdom
Name
FOSTER, Ian Anthony

Kidd Alison Lesley Dr

  Acting
Appointed
30 April 2012
Occupation
Researcher
Role
Director
Age
70
Nationality
British
Address
Brooklands, Albion Terrace, Hay-On-Wye, Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom, HR3 5AP
Country Of Residence
United Kingdom
Name
KIDD, Alison Lesley, Dr

Peter Michael Williams

  Acting
Appointed
30 April 2012
Occupation
Researcher
Role
Director
Age
77
Nationality
British
Address
Brooklands, Albion Terrace, Hay-On-Wye, Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom, HR3 5AP
Country Of Residence
United Kingdom
Name
WILLIAMS, Peter Michael

Kidd Alison Lesley Dr

  Resigned
Appointed
30 April 2012
Resigned
30 April 2013
Role
Secretary
Address
Brooklands, Albion Terrace, Hay-On-Wye, Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom, HR3 5AP
Name
KIDD, Alison Lesley, Dr

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