Visitor Giving Conference 2012
17th & 18th October 2012
Join us in Windermere for an action packed training conference on setting up a Visitor Giving Scheme. Your chance to find out why Visitor Giving in Cumbria so successful, talk to the people who make it happen and pick up the resources to get you started.
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Consultants needed for Cycle Tourism Project
Preparation of a Feasibility Study and Delivery Plan for Cycle Tourism in Penrith and the Eden Valley
Nurture Lakeland wish to appoint experienced consultants to prepare a Feasibility Study for the further development of: Penrith as a ‘Cycle Hub’ and cycle tourism in the Eden Valley. The company will need to have proven practical experience in working with organisations and key stakeholders to develop cycling infrastructure and cycle tourism.
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Conference Announced
The Visitor Giving Conference 2012 could not be more aptly timed. Destinations across the UK are facing increasingly difficult challenges regarding the maintenance and protection of the visitor attracting landscapes we all know and love.For years Tourism professionals have understood their role in landscape conservation and in some destinations this understanding has been extended into partnerships between tourism businesses and conservation organisations that quietly protect the very fabric of our landscape based destinations. The most notable example, Nurture Lakeland, implemented Visitor Giving in 1994 with continued startling success.
Consultants needed for Cycle Tourism Project
Preparation of a Feasibility Study and Delivery Plan for Cycle Tourism in Penrith and the Eden Valley
Nurture Lakeland wish to appoint experienced consultants to prepare a Feasibility Study for the further development of: Penrith as a ‘Cycle Hub’ and cycle tourism in the Eden Valley. The company will need to have proven practical experience in working with organisations and key stakeholders to develop cycling infrastructure and cycle tourism.
Wildzone Launches With A Wear Red For Wildlife Week
The Wildzone’s ‘Wear Red for Wildlife’ initiative (October 8 to 30) draws inspiration from some of Cumbria’s most iconic creatures, the endangered red squirrel and red deer, but also focuses on birds such as red-breasted merganser and red kite, the red leaves of autumn, red flora and red sunsets over Morecambe Bay.
Read more: Wildzone Launches With A Wear Red For Wildlife Week
Cumbria gets green light for £7m low-carbon
The Department for Transport has today announced the successful bidders for its Local Sustainable Transport Fund and a proposal from Cumbria County Council made in partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority is one of 39 bids across the country to win approval.
Bridge over the river Kent
This is an exciting week for the Staveley Riverside walk ‘Miles without Stiles’ project. As I type, the sound of cranes cranking up outside the windows down here at Staveley River Mill tells me that the new, bespoke bridge will very soon be in place.