Fundraising Projects
These are some of the projects that the Society’s fundraising has supported.
- Helping Animal Rescue Cumbria to buy a much-needed new van
- Contribution to creating a new access route to Orrest Head to aid those of limited mobility
- Build a new outdoor classroom for the Blencathra Centre
- Purchase of the latest ultrasound machines for use by doctors on the GNAAS helicopters
- Donations to support the Wainwright Exhibition at Keswick Museum
- Repairing the footpath on Long Stile by Fix the Fells
- A stone bench as a tribute to AW on the new Ullswater Way
- Funding a plaque for Patterdale Post Office where AW sold his first Pictorial Guides
- Refurbishing the Bowderstone Bothy for The Calvert Trust to give disabled access
- Repairs to the Coast to Coast path at Nine Standards
- Donation to the Cumbria Flood Appeal (post Storm Desmond)
- Replacing the body radios for members of the Lakes Search and Rescue Dogs Team
- Funding a programme of Taster Weekends for disadvantaged children in Cumbria
- Waymarking for the Coast to Coast Walk and support of Rescue Teams covering the route
- Supporting the replacement of Juniper plantations for Cumbria Wildlife Trust
- Replacement of the Viewfinder on Orrest Head
- Funding to help build the Water Centre at the Lake District Calvert Trust
- Significant support over 15 years for Mountain Rescue Teams
- Repairs to Stake Pass through Fix the Fells
- Support for the Cumbria Flood appeal in 2009 through lecture by Sir Chris Bonington and Doug Scott CBE
- Numerous donations to Animal Rescue Cumbria, recently through sales of our Encounters With Wainwright book
- Contributing to the campaign for a third helicopter for GNAAS, such is the demand for their services
Cutting the ribbon on the new access path on Orrest Head, September 2021.
Helping Animal Rescue Cumbria to buy this much-needed new van
Presentation of first cheque to Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dogs at High Sweden Bridge, 2015.
Society members at the memorial seat on the Ullswater Way 2017