Free art and wellbeing workshops launch in Kirkby Lonsdale
Free art and wellbeing taster workshops will be held in Kirkby Lonsdale this week.
Kirkby Lonsdale Community Interest Company is working with Melling visual arts organisation Green Close to launch the workshops as part of a new programme called Phoenix Rising.
The Phoenix Rising programme is one of only 37 organisations nationally to have received a Thriving Communities grant from the National Academy for Social Prescribing, Arts Council England, Natural England and Historic England.
The initiative will give locals the opportunity to socialise and recharge in a safe creative space as lockdown restrictions ease.
An intrepid group of students with additional needs have struck gold after tackling one of the toughest challenges for young people. Seven students from Beaumont College, for young people in Cumbria and Lancaster aged 18-25 with a broad range of physical and/or learning impairments, have been completing the gruelling Duke of Edinburgh Award, including a four-day expedition in a deluge of torrential rain and mudslides while their instructors were close by but out of sight. Five of the seven achieved gold, a coveted standard that only a small number of young people across the country manage to achieve, while two others are expected to complete the award soon.
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News from schools around South Lakeland has always played a large part in the columns of The Westmorland Gazette. SHAKESPEARE: Pupils from Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, who were due to travel to America for a Shakespearian festival in 1994 In 1994, the newspaper reported that pupils from Queen Elizabeth School at Kirkby Lonsdale were setting off for America to compete in a Shakespearian festival in Washington. It was the school’s third trip to the American Secondary School Festival. The 15 third to sixth formers were taking a special gift to a sister school in the city - Sidwell Friends School. “We will be taking a copy of part of the Quaker Tapestry, which is to be housed in Kendal, to present to the school as a gift from the Friends in Kendal and Sedbergh,” said teacher Katie Doyle.
Replacement agricultural livestock building, following demolition of existing, High Roosebeck Farm, Goadsbarrow, Ulverston. For Mr Chris Ford. Dwelling with annex, Ridgeway, Jack Hill, Allithwaite, Grange-over-Sands. For Mr Carl Taylor. Conversion to dwelling, The Old Bar, Cavendish Street, Cartmel. For Mr & Mrs Mitchell. 2 x Yew - crown reduction, 27 Swinnate Road, Arnside. For Mr James McQueen. Changes to previously approved internal renovations of the existing hall and attached cottage. Changed to elevations and minor changes to the size of the approved extension, Saltcotes Station, Road, Arnside. For Mr & Mrs Abbit. Refurbish the existing dwelling with porch extension. Construction of a double garage with room above, Beach Arbour, Redhills Road, Arnside.For Mr & Mrs Fairhurst.