Kent Hospitality were proud to win the ‘HHH Green Award’ at The Triple H Awards 2020 (Hotel Housekeeping Honours) held at the Hilton Metropole NEC Birmingham on 12 March.

Seeing off competition from Royal Holloway University of London, who were Highly Commended in the category, the Kent Hospitality Housekeeping team were thrilled to win the HHH Green Award. The Green Award is presented to the institution best demonstrating ecological and environmental initiatives and innovation.

Gary Sayles, Executive Housekeeping Manager, collected the award on behalf of his team and said ‘I am exceptionally proud of all my team and that our efforts to provide a high quality and environmentally friendly service to our students has been rewarded. We will continue to build on our services and always seek the latest innovations, but this is a sure sign we are moving in the right direction’.

The award recognised the Kent Hospitality Housekeeping team’s significant shift away from their previous methodologies and cleaning products to be more eco-friendly. The department now predominantly utilises Aqueous Ozone, Thermostar steam cleaning, and InnuScience biological products, all of which serve as environmentally friendly alternatives for their staff to use across the University. Additionally, as well as being eco-label certified and cruelty free, one noted advantage of InnuScience’s products is that they are not classified as hazardous, or as an irritant, meaning the cleaning products can be freely included in all campus student accommodation kitchens.

This was not the only success for Kent Hospitality at the 2020 awards as Durga Rai was shortlisted for the ‘Cleaning Technician of the Year Award’ following Hayley Dyer’s Highly Commended acknowledgement in the same category at the 2019 awards.

See the HHH Awards 2020 website for further information.