Not just one Julia Bradbury, but 8 paid a visit to Glaramara last Sunday! The walking group from the Blackburn area enjoyed refreshments at the Centre in the company of a representative of Keswick Tourism Association, before embarking upon a local Wainwright walk. The JB lookalikes (wigs, T-shirts and all) climbed the eponymous, Glaramara, where they [...]
Joan Newton of Briar Rigg, Keswick spent a few days with us over the Easter period celebrating her 95th Birthday with family members. Born during the First World War in South East London she was raised in the area and following medical training, qualified as a Doctor at University College London. After marrying her husband, Leslie, [...]
The Centre has recently gained a 5 Star rating from Allerdale Borough Council in the national “scores on the doors” hygiene ratings for food businesses. Head Chef Gareth Speight said ‘we are delighted to have our high standards recognised. We have recently undergone a major refurbishment of our kitchen and have put a lot time into [...]
We are pleased to say that we were among the Excellence award winners when the county’s best environmentally-savvy businesses were honoured on Tuesday night at the 2010 Cumbria Business Environment Network Awards, held at the Castle Green Hotel, Kendal. The awards, sponsored by the Environment Agency and Resource Cumbria, reward 230 leading businesses that are benefitting [...]
24 local businesses turned out for the You, Your Guests and the Environment workshop on 19 March. The event last Friday was organised by NLAP (Northern Lakes Accommodation Providers) , ‘Love your Lakes’ a Bassenthwaite Reflections project, and Keswick Tourism Association, and informed businesses on how to reduce their impact on the environment, save money and [...]
Force Crag Mine is situated at the top end of the Coledale Valley, close to Keswick, but can seem ‘a million miles away’. Whilst being abandoned in 1991, it has had a long and interesting history since 1835 and has only recently been accessible. Restoration of (non-working) machinery and buildings by the National Trust [...]
We now have a separate Facility to cater for our increase in custom. This has been purpose built within the grounds of Glaramara and provides modern, customer friendly facilities for both residential and day programmes. The building is wi-fi enabled and the first floor is suitable for teaching and training as well as providing a venue, with [...]
Delegates from 10 countries attended a European Youth in Action seminar at Glaramara in February. Youth leaders from Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Malta, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Macedonia and the UK met to plan youth exchange programmes during 2010. Glaramara hosted the pevent in conjunction with Go Away and Learn (GOAL), a Yorkshire based Charity -http://www.goawayandlearn.org.uk/. The format [...]
The Youth Opportunity Fund (YOF) gives young people aged 13-19, living in Cumbria, the power to decide how you spend funding on your behalf so that you can start your own projects to improve the activities available to you in your local area and help other young people in your community. What kind of project the young people come up [...]
