Another Another successful 5 week summer camp season has drawn to an end. 3 groups of teenagers from the North West Spanish region of Navarro each enjoyed a week long trip to Glaramara. These visits were sandwiched between two European International Camps where group members came from across Europe including Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Sweden and Malta as [...]
Gimme a Break is a programme where kids make the decision from three pontential destinations as to where their family goes on holiday. Having won a competition, a family of four from Leeds, chose to come to the Lake District and part of their visit included a ghyll scramble organised by Glaramara at Stoneycroft in Newlands. There were [...]
Our Activities Manager, Ian Boorman has been working with the Youth Hostel Association in helping deliver its 2009 Summer Camp based Derwentwater Youth Hostel.
Stuart Andrews, Leader & Organiser: Our scout troop enjoyed a stunning venue at Glaramara, set in the most dramatic landscape imaginable. We enjoyed both on-site and offsite activities, and the quality of the instructors and support staff was superb, with everyone being personable, efficient and easy to deal with. The instructors themselves handled our very lively [...]
A group of Vimto management and employees recently stayed in Keswick and used Glaramara for its outdoor activities and team building.
We received a surprise visit from John Buckley and his wife, Marian, from Rochdale who were spending a few days at Bassenthwaite as part of an Armstrong Siddeley Owners Club get together.
After a call, literally the evening before, GMTV came to do a feature at the Centre relating to ‘children being wrapped in cotton wool’ due to the perceived risks in undertaking outdoor activities.
A 10 strong group of funseekers arrived from Gateshead this weekend hoping to celebrate Philip Oswald’s 50th birthday with some fun in the outdoors.
We are pleased to advise that in July we are scheduled to unveil a separate Activities Store to cater for our increase in custom. This is to be purpose built within the grounds of Glaramara and will provide modern, customer friendly facilities for both residential and day programmes. As well as housing all our outdoor gear and equipment, [...]
A group of 75 children from Langley Park School for Boys together with 18 teachers, including Head Master and Deputy Head, recently made their annual visit to Glaramara taking part in numerous outdoor activities despite the poor weather. It was the 39th Annual School Camp and the boys also participated in sports activities on the field [...]
