We’re finalists at the UK Green Business Awards

We have some news that put a genuine smile on our faces.

Ohana Mua has been named a finalist in the Hospitality Firm of the Year category at the UK Green Business Awards 2026.

The UK Green Business Awards are run by BusinessGreen and are now in their fourth year, having grown out of the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards that ran for over a decade. They cover 30 categories across the full breadth of the green economy, and bring together over 600 business leaders, sustainability executives, investors, entrepreneurs, and campaigners at a gala ceremony each year. This year the event takes place on 24th June at The Brewery in central London, as part of London Climate Action Week. It’s a serious room. Being named a finalist matters.

For a business that only opened its first destination, The Vale in Cornwall, in July 2025, this one means a lot. It tells us that the choices we’ve been making, the ones that sometimes take longer, cost more, or require us to find a different way, are the right ones.

When we set out to build Ohana Mua, we weren’t trying to be a “green business” in the badge-wearing sense. We wanted to genuinely rethink what a UK holiday destination could look like: one that produces more energy than it uses, that designs for wellbeing rather than just aesthetics, and that treats sustainability as a decision-making framework rather than a marketing afterthought. Just honest work, done carefully.

At The Vale, that’s meant generating our own clean energy and storing it onsite, all part of our long-term ambition to become one of the UK’s first fully energy-positive destinations. It also means building real relationships with local Cornish businesses so that a stay at The Vale puts money back into the community, and ensuring there’s an EV charger for every guest who arrives. We’ve embedded sustainability into our business plan from day one.

We’re also working towards B Corp certification, a process that keeps sharpening how we think about impact across every part of the business.

Being recognised as a finalist, in a category alongside hospitality businesses from across the country, is a genuine honour. It’s validation that what we’re building matters, not just to us, but to a wider conversation about what responsible tourism can look like.

We’ll share more as the date gets closer. For now, we just wanted to say thank you to everyone who’s stayed with us, supported us, and believed in what we’re doing.

You’re part of this.

With love, Team Ohana Mua