Cartmel Village Society - A Voice for our Village

Cartmel is the centre for an ever widening range of community based projects offering a wealth of annual events. The development and administration of this page is being funded and supported by Lower Allithwaite Parish Council.

Cartmel Village Society exists for the benefit of our village and for our first competition we are going global...but starting at home!
We live in one of the most attractive villages in England and on one of the most beautiful peninsulas in the country. The natural world around us is precious and very important. Our countryside, hills, woods, village gardens and spaces together are unique.  The Village Society wants to both protect and celebrate our surroundings and our environment.

The judges for Cumbria in Bloom arrived at the Village Hall on a lovely sunny July morning to start their tour of the village. They made a number of positive comments about the floral displays and were able to complete the route in just over the allotted time. They were impressed with the Allotments and the Primary School Kitchen Garden where they had the opportunity to meet 4 of the children who are involved with the gardening club.  The Cartmel Village Society would like to thank everyone who helped either cleaning up or making the outside of their property look so attractive and colourful.

2010 is The United Nations year of BIODIVERSITY.
BIODIVERSITY is defined as the variety of all forms of life, the plants, animals and micro organisms that exist on our planet---and the resulting interdependence of all those forms of life.
Our project this year takes this global theme and brings it home to Cartmel. And we can approach this from so many different ways
If you are a local organisation, a school, a group of friends or an enthusiastic individual you will be able to apply to us for some funding for a specific project (chosen by you) that helps us all understand any aspect of biodiversity on the Cartmel Peninsula.

We have the prospect of judges external to the village deciding which three projects we will contribute to. The awards will be for the sums of either £500, £250 and £100 to contribute to the cost of your project. Information about successful candidates will be announced here soon.