Events season gets into full swing with Leaders' Landscape training, the Morecambe Bay Fundraising Walk, the Great Cumbrian Litter Pick, and Election manifesto for the landscape for those voting next Thursday. Read more
We're highlighting lots of events and free activities in this edition giving people the opportunity to enjoy and benefit from the special landscapes of Cumbria. Read more
It's a busy start to April with lots of events planned for the spring and summer months. And we've had a great response to our Storm Arwen appeal to help repair the storm damage to our trees and woodlands across Cumbria, so a big thank you! Read more
A great volunteer effort this week, plug planting 2,500 plants to add colour and diversity to our hay meadows this summer. More member meets are scheduled, bookings open for our Morecambe Bay Walk event and we demonstrate our support for the 'No New Coal' petition. Read more
A Postcard From the Lakes is where we bring the Lake District to you! We publish this fortnightly update to share ideas and to help keep you connected with the countryside and to let you know what's afoot in the Lake District and Cumbria. If you want to receive them via a weekly email then do join our mailing list. You can sign up to our newsletter at the bottom of this page.
Hedge planting at High Borrowdale, meeting our members, the 'Big Switch Off', planning, policy news and events in 2022. Read more
Welcome to our latest Postcard From the Lakes. It's a people focussed edition this time around featuring the efforts of volunteers, Westmorland Dales Scheme apprentices as well as young people discovering miniature wonders in our woods in the Rusland Valley. Read more
Our new tree planting at High Borrowdale and Dam Mire Woods becomes part of the 'Queen's Green Canopy', Cumbria Dark Skies Festival approaches, with 20 plus events taking place both online and around Cumbria. Read more
This week sees the release of the Government’s response to The Glover Review of Protected Landscapes, build up to the February Dark Skies Festival and a bumper year of volunteering opportunities scheduled on our land. Read more
Dark Skies Cumbria Festival dates and activities in Febraury, workparties and volunteering opportunities in 2022, undergrounding of powerlines at Tindale Tarn Read more
Storm Arwen hits, Ullock Moss car park decision is in, workparty wallers at top speed, Eden Rivers Trust 'Slowing the Flow' and our 2022 Calendars still up for grabs Read more
Haweswater Fell Care Day, Dark Skies festival begins, the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Ullock Moss and other car park proposals, Dam Mire Wood path works, Village stories of the Westmorland Dales. Read more
Welcome to our latest update. We've chosen a very suitable image for our postcard in a torrential week here in Cumbria. We will all be hoping for a break in the clouds and some rays of sunshine as we head into the weekend. Read more