EarthCheck Silver Certified

EarthCheck is the world’s leading scientific benchmarking certification and advisory group, for sustainable travel and tourism organisations.

The Athenaeum Hotel & Residences is immensely proud to announce achieving EarthCheck Silver Certification, after completing an independent audit across the hotel. The certification verifies our continuous commitment to the planet, our community, our people, and to sustainable travel. It provides us with a scientific-based programme to ensure we continuously improve on our journey, every year.

Awards

Conde Nast Johansens Award for Excellence 2025

Best Hotel for Green & Sustainable Practises

Boutique Hotelier Awards 2024

Best Sustainable Achievement

Our Pledge

The Athenaeum Hotel and Residences is passionately committed to operating more sustainably. As an environmentally conscious hotel, we have applied both policies and initiatives to meet our responsibilities to operate in a manner that reduces our footprint.

We strive to focus on key areas such as the environment, social and governance. We encourage team members to help with our commitment through public transport loans and a cycle to work scheme. We aim to build relationships with local community by volunteering and contributing to various programmes. We strive to work with ethical suppliers and partners who share our ESG values.

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Sustainable Practices

Public Areas

From the exterior right through the building sustainability is built into every inch of the hotel. Starting with the iconic 329m2 living wall (equivalent to 16.5 middle sized trees) to our water flow reduces on taps, PIR/Occupancy smart motion detectors and low-energy lighting (LEDs).

Guest Rooms

In our Bedrooms expect double/triple glazing, low-energy lighting (LEDs), water flow reducers on showers and taps, BMS controlling energy-efficient heating and cooling and HYPNOS masttresses (low-carbon sustainable designed). We are proud to be the first hotel to feature Molton Brown sustainable toiletries and a Nespresso Recycling Scheme.

Dining and Banquet

From transporting our food waste to an aerobic digester, locally and ethically sourcing our produce, recycling our used cooking oil and ensuring zero waste to landfill by Grundon, we are proud to take measures to make dining in our hotel more sustainable.

The combined bedroom and living room space of The Athenaeum's family suite in London.

Community

Hospitality Action

The Athenaeum Hotel & Residences supports Hospitality Action, having participated in their ‘Invisible Chips’ campaign since 2020. This fundraising campaign helps to support people working in hospitality whose livelihoods have been impacted by COVID-19, whether mentally, physically or financially. These invisible chips are located on the All Day Menu.

Only A Pavement Away

The Athenaeum had joined the initiative ‘Hospitality Against Homelessness’ launched by ‘Only A Pavement Away’ in 2020 to provide donations of food, toiletries and clothing to those who were affected.

Our Sustainability Journey

“I am extremely proud of the team, that all the hard work and commitment has been independently verified by EarthCheck. Sustainability has always been part of our values and we will keep trying to do right by our planet, guests and the community. There is much work to do, for us, it’s a journey. With EarthCheck as our partner we have a certification we trust and a clear program to ensure continuous improvement every year. As happy as I am about this achievement (trust me, this has been years in the making), I am already looking forward to our next audit (this year) to maintain the standard we have set.”

Joanne Taylor Stagg

Hotel General Manager

Environmental Social Governance

at The Athenaeum

EarthCheck Silver Certified

Awards

Our Pledge