The Bendrigg Blog

THE BENDRIGG BLOG

Welcome to the Bendrigg Blog, where you’ll find all our latest news, events, updates and guest blogs from other disability services in the UK.

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Summit’s Up For Tony

Posted on 18th July 2023

MOUNTAINOUS CHALLENGE FOR EIGHT-YEAR-OLD DOUBLE AMPUTEE Pride of Britain Award winner, Tony Hudgell has set himself another awe-inspiring challenge “Summit’s…

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Summit’s Up For Tony

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MOUNTAINOUS CHALLENGE FOR EIGHT-YEAR-OLD DOUBLE AMPUTEE Pride of Britain Award winner, Tony Hudgell has set himself another awe-inspiring challenge [...]

Mountain Training England New Disability Fund

Posted on 17th August 2022

Mountain Training England has launched a fund to support disabled people to attend skills training and gain leadership qualifications. [...]

Hidden Disabilities Project

Posted on 12th July 2022

Hidden Disabilities Project hits a new milestone as activity story videos launched We are delighted that the first 11 [...]

Amphigean Work Place Volunteering

Posted on 1st July 2022

Amphigean at Bendrigg Trust Amphigean Ltd are one of our valued corporate partners who regularly come to Bendrigg and [...]

LGBTQIA+ Mountain Skills – Guest Blog

Posted on 29th June 2022

LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Mountain Skills Weekend We are delighted to share with you some information about an inclusive mountain skills [...]

Funding For Group Residentials At Bendrigg Trust 2022

Posted on 28th June 2022

Funding & Sponsorship Available For Groups 2022 We have funding available to support schools, charities or other groups and [...]

Lake District Mobility – Guest Blog

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Lake District Mobility – Making the outdoors accessible for all All-terrain mobility scooters (Trampers) – at amazing venues around [...]

Richard Cloudesley School Trip 2022

Posted on 16th June 2022

“Coming from an inner London school to Bendrigg is like stepping into an oasis. Our trip gave Richard Cloudesley [...]

Grants For Disabled People In South Lakes

Posted on 15th June 2022

Recently Bendrigg hosted a talk for the women from the Windermere Trefoil Group & Kendal Trefoil Group… we were [...]

Freedom – 2021 Impact Report

Posted on 7th June 2022

Bendrigg Trust 2021 Impact Report 2021 started with a lockdown but ended with hope and freedom for many… In [...]

Bendrigg Trust Annual Report 2021

Posted on 6th June 2022

Bendrigg Trust takes great pleasure in presenting our 2021 Annual Report Annual report and financial statements for the year [...]

Bendrigg Alternative Scheme Relaunch

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Last but not least… our Bendrigg Alternative scheme relaunch marks the final project to resume after the coronavirus pandemic. [...]

SHASBAH – Be Our Guest

Posted on 26th May 2022

Guest Blog From Sheffield Association For Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus We are delighted to welcome Beth Hobbs, Marketing and [...]

Sensory Room Open Sessions 2022

Posted on 28th April 2022

We are delighted to be starting our community Sensory Room sessions again. Our state of the art Sensory Room is a therapeutic space [...]

Climbing Club NICAS Award

Posted on 21st April 2022

We are SO proud to share that 2 of our regular climbers achieved their Level 1 NICAS award at [...]

Young Adults Weekend 2022

Posted on 12th April 2022

We are delighted to be hosting our Young Adults Weekend. This course is perfect for those aged between 16-25 [...]

Someone Like Me – Volunteering Scheme Gets A Boost

Posted on 9th March 2022

Volunteering Scheme Gets A Boost Someone Like Me – About The Project “Someone Like Me” is an exciting volunteering [...]

Rare Disease Activity Weekend 2022

Posted on 1st March 2022

Rare Disease Activity Weekend A fully inclusive activity break for people with a rare disease. Bendrigg Trust are excited [...]

Strong Bones Activity Weekend 2022

Posted on 27th February 2022

A fully inclusive activity break for people with a bone condition Bendrigg Trust are excited to be hosting an action [...]

Planting Trees For The Jubilee

Posted on 23rd February 2022

Planting Trees For The Jubilee Kendal Rotary and 1st Kendal Scouts joined forces with Bendrigg Trust to mark The [...]

Festive Family Weekend 2022

Posted on 20th February 2022

Festive Family Break 2022 We are delighted that our Festive Themed Family Break is back at Bendrigg Trust this [...]

BMC Climbing Challenge

Posted on 17th January 2022

BMC Climbing Fundraising Challenge Climbing For All 2022 The BMC are once again running a fundraising campaign from the [...]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Posted on 17th December 2021

Merry Christmas From All The Bendrigg Team x Well 2021… it’s been a bumpy ride! We are delighted to [...]

The Big Give Christmas Challenge

Posted on 4th October 2021

The Bendrigg Trust Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021 Help us raise £30k in just 7 days to enable more [...]

Festive Family Weekend 2021

Posted on 30th September 2021

Festive Family Break We are delighted to be hosting our first Festive Themed Family Break at Bendrigg Trust this [...]

Winter Wonderland 2021

Posted on 29th September 2021

Winter Wonderland at Bendrigg Trust After the success of last years event, we are delighted to announce that the [...]

Climbing At Bendrigg Trust

Posted on 9th September 2021

Climbing Club, Rock Days & Climbing Festival We were delighted to have received funding from Cumbria Community Foundation through [...]

Keswick Mountain Festival

Posted on 12th August 2021

New Accessibility Zone set to open up Keswick Mountain Festival for more outdoor visitors Bendrigg Trust are delighted to [...]

Job Vacancies

Posted on 16th July 2021

Job Vacancies – July 2021 2 job vacancies currently available Our Charity may be small but we make a [...]

Community Rally To Support Bendrigg Trust Reopening

Posted on 2nd July 2021

Cumbria Community Come Together To Support Local Charity Reopening People from across Cumbria have rallied together in a true [...]

Impact Webinar

Posted on 22nd June 2021

Overcoming Adversity Bendrigg Trust 2020 Impact Webinar & Report Release We are delighted to invite you to join our [...]

2021 & 2022 Services For Adults & Families

Posted on 11th June 2021

2021 & 2022 Services For Adults & Families We are delighted to release new dates for our ever popular [...]

Wellbeing Weekend

Posted on 8th June 2021

Wellbeing Weekend At Bendrigg Trust Bendrigg Trust are teaming up with Mind Over Mountains, to bring you a very special [...]

The Big Bendrigg Reboot

Posted on 2nd May 2021

The Big Bendrigg Reboot If only life after Covid was as easy as flicking on a switch and turning [...]

Your Movement Matters

Posted on 1st May 2021

Your Movement Matters Guest Blog by Emily Ankers & Chris Kay It is clear that we have an issue [...]

Spring & Summer Services at Bendrigg

Posted on 26th March 2021

Spring & Summer At Bendrigg Trust We hope you’re all ready and raring to get back outdoors and take [...]

Bendrigg Trust Party Night – With DJ Oli On The Decks

Posted on 23rd February 2021

There Ain’t No Party Like A Bendrigg Party DJ Oli bringing the Bendrigg party to you! Party nights are [...]

Bendriggers Assemble – Be A Superhero!

Posted on 9th February 2021

Bendriggers Assemble – Be A Bendrigg Hero! Superhero Series 2021 – Powered by Marvel You don’t need an excuse [...]

A Podcast With Cicerone Press

Posted on 3rd February 2021

Inclusion and accessibility in the outdoors A Podcast with Cicerone Press & Bendrigg Trust We were recently invited to [...]

Save Outdoor Ed

Posted on 27th January 2021

Save Outdoor Ed A campaign to save the UK’s Outdoor Education Centres from closure The outdoor learning sector delivers [...]

An Update From The Bendrigg Team

Posted on 4th January 2021

Bendrigg Trust Update 04/01/2021 Bendrigg is currently closed to the public as of 04/01/2021 & is not accepting volunteers. [...]

Climbing Festival 2022

Posted on 2nd January 2021

BENDRIGG TRUST CLIMBING FESTIVAL On Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd January 2022 we are hosting our fabulous climbing festival with a jam packed [...]

Bendrigg Winter Wonderland

Posted on 9th December 2020

Winter Wonderland Event A Special Winter Wonderland Trail At Bendrigg Trust Santa has been visiting Bendrigg for many years [...]

The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020

Posted on 29th October 2020

GIVE THE GIFT OF ADVENTURE Help us to raise £10,000 during the 2020 Big Give Christmas Challenge! By donating, [...]

Accessible Activities For Adults

Posted on 4th September 2020

Accessible Activities For Adults With A Disability As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic we are able to offer [...]

Accessible Activities For Families

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Accessible Activities For Families with A Disabled Child As a result of [...]

Sensory Room Hire

Posted on 2nd September 2020

Sensory Room Hire Explore Your Senses During Covid-19 we understand that families with additional needs have been shielding for [...]

Trusts & Foundations Officer Vacancy

Posted on 20th July 2020

Bendrigg Trust Job Vacancy Trusts & Foundations Officer Bendrigg Trust are seeking an experienced Trusts and Foundations (Fundraising) Officer [...]

Corona Virus Related Resources

Posted on 27th April 2020

Corona Virus Related Resources During this pandemic, we realise that many of our visitors, their parents, carers and teachers [...]

What Bendrigg Means To Us…

Posted on 23rd April 2020

What Bendrigg Means To Us… A guest blog from Dawn Flint, mum to the lovely Lewis, 14. What [...]

Be An At Home Hero & Take On The 2.6 Challenge

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Become an at home hero for Bendrigg Trust With only a few days to go before the #TwoPointSixChallenge really [...]

Nothing Is Impossible

Posted on 27th March 2020

Nothing Is Impossible By Liz Dyke There have been so many special moments for me whilst working as a [...]

The Genesis of a Bendrigg Tutor

Posted on 26th March 2020

The Genesis of a Bendrigg Tutor… By Rex Pickles If you wind back time, to when the Bangles were [...]

A Brief Story Of My Bendrigg Journey

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A Brief Story Of My Bendrigg Journey By Dominic Bingham Dom joined Bendrigg as a Trainee Tutor at [...]

Rare Disease Film Festival Awards

Posted on 12th February 2020

Rare Disease UK Hosts The First Rare Film Festival Awards Helping To Raise Awareness For Rare Diseases. We were [...]

The Power Of Corporate Partnership

Posted on 6th February 2020

Q8 Takeover Day Guest Blog by Q8 Corporate Volunteers Hey everyone, Q8 Corporate academy & Impact International are in [...]

Kids to Adults Shows 2020

Posted on 22nd January 2020

We had such a great time at the Kidz2Adultz North event last November that we’ve decided to exhibit at [...]

Shaping The Future Together

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Bendrigg Engagement Day On Thursday 9th January 2020 Bendrigg Trust held it’s very first Engagement Day, and sorry to [...]

Tutors Of The Future

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Bendrigg Trust Trainee Tutors This year, Bendrigg Trust have taken on 2 new Trainee Tutors…. Introducing Abigail & Dominic! [...]

Need Help With Funding? We’ve Got You Covered!

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Bendrigg Trust Funding Pack We recognise that some of our service users often need financial support to be able [...]

Be Burns Aware

Posted on 26th December 2019

Burn & Scald accidents can be horrific and very painful. They not only cause physical injuries but can often [...]

Making Memories Together As A Family

Posted on 12th December 2019

The latest video in our Adventure for All series follows the lovely Bancroft Family. We asked them to share [...]

Sedbergh Gives Back

Posted on 10th December 2019

Today was Sedbergh Gives Back Day – where over 500 pupils from the local schools volunteer at various local [...]

The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019

Posted on 3rd December 2019

Give The Gift Of Adventure Help us to raise £12,000 during the 2019 Big Give Christmas Challenge! By donating, [...]

Tree Planting Day

Posted on 1st December 2019

As part of the Woodland Trusts Big Climate Fightback Campaign on Saturday 30th November, we pledged to plant 150 [...]

Climbing Festival At Bendrigg Trust

Posted on 5th November 2019

Bendrigg Trust To Host Inclusive Climbing Festival! On Friday 24th – Sunday 26th January 2020 Bendrigg Trust are hosting [...]

Charity Challenges 2020

Posted on 25th October 2019

It’s never been easier to support your favourite cause, which, if your reading this blog post, must be us! [...]

Kidz To Adultz North 2019

Posted on 23rd October 2019

Attending shows and exhibitions are a great opportunity to interact with new people and spread the word about the [...]

Barclays Bank Volunteer Party!

Posted on 19th October 2019

A huge thank you to the fantastic team from Barclays Bank who travelled from all over the UK [...]

Overcome Barriers To Access The Great Outdoors

Posted on 24th May 2019

Barriers to participation The World Health Organization (WHO) describes barriers as being more than just physical obstacles. “Factors in [...]

“None of us know our limits until we are allowed to test them”

Posted on 3rd May 2019

After commenting on a recent twitter post about his trip to Bendrigg in 1992 & 1993, we asked Mark [...]

Royal Visit

Posted on 28th January 2019

Royal visit for Bendrigg [...]

Vacancies

Posted on 17th May 2018

Vacancies at Bendrigg Trust, Kendal, Cumbria for Trustees - to help take forward the work of Bendrigg [...]

A boost for Bendrigg

Posted on 16th October 2017

A group of plucky Playdale staff members, collectively known as the Playdale Paddlers, undertook a kayaking challenge back in July this [...]

Vacancies

Posted on 15th October 2017

Job vacancies at Bendrigg Trust, Kendal, Cumbria for Apprentice Tutor roles - working in the outdoors with people with disabilities. [...]

A tale of Bendy Pot

Posted on 14th September 2017

"I had seen first hand the limitations put on people with disabilities, when I knew that with the right help, a tiny bit of encouragement, plus a sprinkling of that magic that is intrinsically part of Birmingham PHAB camps – that there was virtually nothing [...]