Haltwhistle Guides Newlaithes Junior School Howgill Family Centre Castle Carrock Felt Workshop Glenmore Opportunities Herbal Workshop
Bewcastle School Brampton Youth Group Haltwhistle Over 60's Longtown School Tanzanian Ceilidh High Hesket School 2009 Public Heritage Events
Project Background
Low Luckens Organic Resource Centre is delighted to announce the result of a successful application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for its Discovering North Cumbrian Traditions and Rural Past Project. The project will benefit many local groups, organisations and schools from both Cumbria and over the border in Northumbria. Participants are from all ages and abilities including local youth groups, 50+ groups, learning disabled adults and disadvantaged families.
The project will run over two years, and represents an investment of just under £50,000. Project planning and application development has taken approximately six months to achieve a successful outcome.
Discovering North Cumbrian Traditions and Rural Past will encourage participants to celebrate their Cumbrian heritage, via a series of visits, workshops and events, based at Low Luckens farm, Tullie House Museum (Carlisle) and Greenholme Nursing Home (Haltwhistle). These events will include traditional arts & crafts, woodland skills, story telling, traditional methods of food production & Cumbrian Song & Dance.
One of the highlights of our 2009 programme was the Traditional Ceilidh for Tanzanian students who were visiting Cumbria as part of the William Howard Schools' Tanzanian Link programme.
Bewcastle School enjoyed a day learning traditional clog dancing steps which ended in a performance to teachers and Centre Staff.
Young people from Brampton Youth Group enjoyed a day of traditional crafts working with felt & wood.
Haltwhistle Guides started our heritage visit programme on Armistice weekend with their World War 2 evacuee residential weekend. The girls proudly wore their name tags, carried out typical evacuee tasks and created and enjoyed a typical World War 2 meal.
To continue in the World War 2 theme on 18th January 09 Haltwhistle Guides & Brownies visited Tullie House Museum to do WW2 artefact handling. As you can see from the photographs below they obviously enjoyed the session.
The Guides returned again in March for a Victorian Farming Residential weekend.
Newlaithes Junior School World War 2 day visits took place on 11th and 18th November 2008, both days were a great success.
"This World War 2 evacuee themed day gives children a very tangible insight into the experience of evacuee children in World War 2. It enables us to undertake informed, detailed cross-curricular work based on the experience."
Teacher Newlaithes Junior School
Howgill family Centre are a registered Charity supporting families & children from Whitehaven. Howgill have been visiting Low Luckens over a number of years. On February 19th Howgill families took part in our traditional craft day making rag rug samplers and wooden pencil boxes.
Castle Carrock visited Low Luckens on 10th March and took part in a traditional Cumbrian Cooking & Farm day. The children prepare Cumbrian food and took part in typical farm jobs.
Members of the public enjoyed a felt making day with local craft tutor Julie Harrison
Learning disabled adults from Glenmore Opportunities visited Tullie House as part of their research of World War II.
Members of the public enjoyed a day session with Medical Herbalist Jackie Cooper MNIMH
Members of Haltwhistle Over 60's group enjoyed a World War II dinner & reminiscence session with food provided by Glenmore Opportunities catering students.
Longtown School Traditional Woodland Activity Day
Longtown Junior School enjoyed a day with Phil Bradley learning woodland skills & working with Willow. Below are the woodland deer the children created.
Pupils from High Hesket Primary School enjoyed a day with traditional story teller Malcolm Green.
The following groups and organisations have or will be taking part in the project
Primary Schools
High Hesket
Shankhill
Newlaithes
Fir ends
Longtown
Brampton
Castle Carrock
Youth groups
Bewcastle Scouts
Haltwhistle Guides
William Howard Tanzanian Link
Brampton Youth Group
Downagate Youth Group
Trainee Teachers
Trainee Teachers from University of Cumbria
Learning Disabled
Groups
Glenmore Opportunities
James Rennie School
Community Groups
Howgill Family Centre
Greenholme Residents
Haltwhistle Over 60's
Bewcastle Heritage
Carlisle City Council
Tullie House Museum
