By bizn_fun 
Patrick Langmaid, managing director of Mother Ivey’s Bay Holiday Park near Padstow, said paying the real living wage helped him attract and retain employees.
“I’m not having to spend as much recruiting. I’m not having to spend as much training. So I’m getting more value,” he explained.
“I have always felt your team is an investment. Pay what you can rather than what you can get away with. That would be my encouragement to everybody.”
Warren Constance, a maintenance worker at the park, said receiving the real living wage made a big difference to his mental health.
“You feel more valued because of the money you’re getting so you tend to do a better job,” he explained.
He added the cost of transport and housing in Cornwall made paying the real living wage essential: “I refer to the national minimum wage as an ‘existing wage’ because you just exist on £12.21 an hour. You don’t really live.”