A leading Cumbrian charity providing accessible outdoor adventure to thousands of people living with disability around the UK has secured an exciting new partnership with an award-winning Keswick tourism operator.

The Lake District Calvert Trust, today announced that Castlerigg Hall Camping, Caravanning and Glamping Park have become the organisation’s latest key charity partner. The partnership will see the Castlerigg team take part in a range of fundraising initiatives in the hopes of raising a substantial sum for the Lakeland charity.

Park owners, David and Jill have been long term supporters of the charity’s work. They and their team collectively chose the Lake District Calvert Trust as their newest charity partner as they were all drawn to the charity’s vision of ‘challenging disability though outdoor adventure’.

Community Fundraising Officer, Georgia Naylor commented:

“We are delighted and privileged to have been named as Castlerigg Hall’s charity partner.

Castlerigg Hall is a long-standing and hugely respected family business with strong local history and national reach. Support like theirs makes all the difference as we continue to challenge disability through outdoor adventure.”

“We’re looking forward to supporting David and the team to develop an exciting and challenging fundraising plan for the year, which we hope in turn will benefit their staff by bringing the team closer together, developing skills and boosting staff morale.”

The fundraising began in earnest this weekend as Castlerigg held the first of several coffee mornings planned over the coming months on the park. Over 40 guests, staff and members of the local community enjoyed a cuppa and a slice of something over conversation with glorious views over Derwentwater.

The team will also further cement their commitment to accessibility and inclusivity by undertaking a Disability Awareness Training Day with the highly-specialised staff from the Lake District Calvert Trust in time for reopening in Spring 2026. These training days are the gold standard in promoting accessibility in the work place. They help organisations of all sizes to confidently welcome both colleagues and guests who live with disabilities.

Other initiatives planned over the coming months include regular visits to the much-loved Calvert Stables to visit the pony they’ve chosen to sponsor along with the building of a Wishing Well on the park. David hopes to complete this over the Winter period so it’s ready to receive guests’ pennies and pounds from early next year.

But the fun doesn’t stop there. David commented:

“As I was thinking about building this Wishing Well in aid of the Lake District Calvert Trust, it occurred to me that I could do more. I love local history and I recalled that Jonathan Otley wrote in the 1820s about early surveying markers on the fells – including a 30-foot wooden staff erected on Skiddaw by a detachment of the Ordnance surveyors in 1826. That means next year marks 200 years since the first early surveying marker was placed on Skiddaw.

The Wishing Well will have a panoramic backdrop of Derwentwater and Skiddaw beyond and so I formed the idea of climbing every trig point in the Lake District during 2026– call it a ‘Trig Trek’ if you will.

The plan is to start the first one from the Calvert Trust Centre and climb Skiddaw and then attempt to complete the rest of them. I’m still finalising the exact number, (different sources suggest anywhere between 49 and 61) but with a time limit of completing them all in a single year.

To raise awareness along the way, I’m going to design a fold-out ‘Trig Seat’ to go in my rucksack for my lunch stops including information about the Calvert Trust. The idea is that people I meet on the fells will ask about it, hopefully generating conversations and helping spread the word about the charity.

Climbing them as part of this partnership would be a wonderful way to honour that history while raising funds for the brilliant Calvert Trust.”

Corporate partnerships are an incredibly important aspect of the charity’s fundraising work each year. The team are keen to hear from any other local businesses considering getting involved with this much-loved, local charity into 2026 and beyond. To find out more about the work of the Lake District Calvert Trust and how businesses of all sizes can get involved, visit www.calvertlakes.org.uk/support