Learning programmes for schools
and youth groups.
"Being such a diverse group of religious and cultural backgrounds, we are quite the challenge to cater for, with vegan, halal, kosher, lactose-free and dairy-free diets all within the group, but Derwentwater as ever rose to the occasion! They even cooked rice every day to help the Indonesian group feel at home, as in Indonesia a meal is not a meal if it doesn't include rice!"
Lucy, Encompass Trust group leader, Nov 2016
Lucy, Encompass Trust group leader, Nov 2016
Youth groups
You are welcome to use the hostel and grounds for day/evening activities or residentials. Here are some of the groups who have visited Derwentwater Independent Hostel recently:
- Scout groups (for instance: Eden District Cubs, Essex Scouts Mountaineering Group, and Sheffield Scouts)
- National Citizen Service groups
- The CLIP project: a youth volunteering scheme run by The Conservation Volunteers
- Youth rugby clubs
- Young and Sweet Youth Group from Northumberland
- North Copeland Youth Group from Cumbria
- Duke of Edinburgh Award groups
- Encompass: The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust
- Albemarle Barracks Youth Club
We want to share Barrow House and the Lake District with as many young people as possible, and so we have a fund for subsidising youth group residentials. Click here for a poster and information sheet about the fund and residentials, and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Group trips on the Keswick Launch -
Birmingham University Wilderness Medicine Students -
Working together on Derwent Water -
Dining room -
Self catering kitchen -
Barrow Cascade: the waterfall in our grounds -
Carving of the Green Man in Cartmel Priory -
Classrooms in the forest -
Pond-dipping -
Working together -
Gorge scrambling -
Raft building (and floating!) -
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Be a Viking for a day! -
Indoor climbing -
Shelter-building
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