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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 December….
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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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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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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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Strong Bones Activity Weekend
Strongbones Activity Weekend A fully inclusive activity break for people with a bone condition Bendrigg Trust are excited to [...]
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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
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
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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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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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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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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Mental Health & Wellbeing Resources
Mental Health Awareness Week Mental Health Awareness Week is taking place from 18-24 May 2020. This years theme is [...]
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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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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 year. Their challenge (that they chose to accept!) was to kayak the 11-mile length of Lake Windermere all in aid of [...]
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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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