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Summit’s Up For Tony

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

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Mountain Training England New Disability Fund

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

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Hidden Disabilities Project

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

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Amphigean Work Place Volunteering

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

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LGBTQIA+ Mountain Skills – Guest Blog

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

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Funding For Group Residentials At Bendrigg Trust 2022

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

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Lake District Mobility – Guest Blog

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

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Richard Cloudesley School Trip 2022

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

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Grants For Disabled People In South Lakes

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

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Freedom – 2021 Impact Report

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

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Bendrigg Trust Annual Report 2021

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

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Bendrigg Alternative Scheme Relaunch

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

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SHASBAH – Be Our Guest

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

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Sensory Room Open Sessions 2022

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

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Climbing Club NICAS Award

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

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Young Adults Weekend 2022

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

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Someone Like Me – Volunteering Scheme Gets A Boost

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

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Rare Disease Activity Weekend 2022

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

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Strong Bones Activity Weekend 2022

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

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Planting Trees For The Jubilee

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

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Festive Family Weekend 2022

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

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BMC Climbing Challenge

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

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

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

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The Big Give Christmas Challenge

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

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Festive Family Weekend 2021

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

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Winter Wonderland 2021

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

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Climbing At Bendrigg Trust

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

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Keswick Mountain Festival

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

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Job Vacancies

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

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Community Rally To Support Bendrigg Trust Reopening

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

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Impact Webinar

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

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2021 & 2022 Services For Adults & Families

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

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Wellbeing Weekend

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

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The Big Bendrigg Reboot

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

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Your Movement Matters

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

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Spring & Summer Services at Bendrigg

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

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Bendrigg Trust Party Night – With DJ Oli On The Decks

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

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Bendriggers Assemble – Be A Superhero!

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

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A Podcast With Cicerone Press

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

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Save Outdoor Ed

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

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An Update From The Bendrigg Team

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

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Climbing Festival 2022

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

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Bendrigg Winter Wonderland

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

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The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020

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

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Accessible Activities For Adults

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

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Accessible Activities For Families

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

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Sensory Room Hire

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

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Trusts & Foundations Officer Vacancy

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

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Corona Virus Related Resources

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

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What Bendrigg Means To Us…

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

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Be An At Home Hero & Take On The 2.6 Challenge

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

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Nothing Is Impossible

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

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The Genesis of a Bendrigg Tutor

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

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A Brief Story Of My Bendrigg Journey

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

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Rare Disease Film Festival Awards

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

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The Power Of Corporate Partnership

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

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Kids to Adults Shows 2020

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

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Shaping The Future Together

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

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Tutors Of The Future

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

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

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

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Be Burns Aware

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

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Making Memories Together As A Family

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

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Sedbergh Gives Back

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

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The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019

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

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Tree Planting Day

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

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Climbing Festival At Bendrigg Trust

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

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Charity Challenges 2020

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

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Kidz To Adultz North 2019

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

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Barclays Bank Volunteer Party!

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

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Overcome Barriers To Access The Great Outdoors

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

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

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

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Royal Visit

Royal visit for Bendrigg [...]

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Vacancies

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

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A boost for Bendrigg

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

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Vacancies

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

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A tale of Bendy Pot

"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 [...]

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White Stuff Charity Champs raise £15,000 for Bendrigg

For the original article by Holly Watson for the Kendal Chronicle please click here. Local Kendal shop receives Major Donor [...]

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How outdoor learning benefits people with disabilities

Ask any adult what their fondest memory of school is and most will come back with an exciting story [...]

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Sensory Room Open Day at Spacekraft

Spacekraft offer sensory solutions for special needs and are holding a sensory room open day on Friday 30th September [...]

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Visually Impaired Athletes complete Kendal Triathlon

Bendrigg were pleased to support a number of visually impaired athletes in the recent Kendal Triathlon. All athletes and [...]

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Senior Tutor Job Vacancy

We are happy to be looking for a Senior Tutor to take over from Nick Liley following his promotion [...]

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New Website Launched

We are very pleased to launch our brand new website by Mintcake Design. With more photos, videos and stories [...]

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