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SCRT teamed up with Barrow Community Kitchen and Tesco Metro yesterday, Tuesday 18th September for a Community Rivers Day! The morning session was a litter pick along Mill Beck. Several people from both the Community Centre and Tesco Metro attended. As you can see, we managed to fill a few bags… Lunch was kindly provided by Barrow Community Kitchen. The afternoon session saw family activities; including river dipping plus arts & crafts.  We want to say a HUGE thanks to all the…

SCRT will be running a training session on Algae identification on 15th September at the SCRT offices from 10:30am. This is available to anyone who wants to come have a go, meet new people and learn something new. Speaking of…it is a new technique (not tried by SCRT before), that will help us to understand the health of rivers better. If you are interested, please contact Jayne Wilkinson: jayne@scrt.co.uk for more information and/or to book a place. DIRECTIONS

Amy, who has been volunteering with us over the summer, is off back down to University. We want to say thank you for your hard work and we hope it has been a beneficial experience for you. If you want to find out about what Amy has been doing during her time here, check our her blog! If you’re interested in perhaps volunteering for the Trust, like Amy, then get in contact with us.

The 10TH ALL ENGLAND STONE SKIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS took place this Saturday at Fell Foot Park, National Trust! We want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all the visitors, volunteers and participants who came throughout the day, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. The weather stayed mainly dry meaning that conditions were just right to crown a new champion, Alex Lewis, with an EPIC throw of 95 metres! This distance beat the existing record, set last…

  We had a wonderful time with the local community for Crosthwaite Discovery Day on both 18th July and 4th August! We had lots of children and families attend; crafting mini-creatures, discovering wildlife, exploring and learning about what creatures can be found in our rivers. Thank you to everyone who attended the event. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Please contact us with feedback, we would love to hear from you: info@scrt.co.uk

Amy is currently volunteering with SCRT in order to gain valuable work experience over the Summer months, before heading back to Aberystwyth University for her final year in Countryside Management. Amy has already been busy, helping out on a number of different projects with SCRT staff. Take a look at what she’s been working on here.

South Cumbria Rivers Trust is working with local landowners & Crosthwaite C E Primary School to make habitat improvements to a beck that runs through Crosthwaite. Currently the beck is a narrow underground culvert which has little value for wildlife and proves a barrier for migrating fish. The work will open up this channel, improving 250m2 of habitat both in river and along the beck margins, benefiting wildlife and the school. Alongside the opened beck a wildlife pond and dipping…

This unique, time-honored tradition of throwing flat stones across still water is back, as the All England Stone Skimming competition returns for its 10th year running! Join us on the 18th August for more fun than you can throw a stone at! Click here for further information and directions to the event.

On Wednesday 18th July and Saturday 4th August, SCRT will be running an event near Crosthwaite for people to come and discover the types of creatures that can be found in local becks and rivers. Great for families and great for people to find out more about SCRT and what we do. Please click here for more information about the event.

The Balsam Bashes are now well under way and a huge thank you to all the volunteers who have already been involved, we could not do it without you. Information about the upcoming events are below. Please, click here if you want to see further dates for the summer. Our final two work parties for the summer will be as follows:- Friday 24th August           Kentmere Tarn (north end) We’ll be checking over the areas we cleared balsam from in…