About Leader's Landscape training:
Landscape is our support system without which we could not exist.
Everyone depends on landscape for food, water, fuel and clean air.
A beautiful and diverse landscape with a wealth of wildlife and human history inspires and enriches our lives and provides a ‘natural health service’ for mind and body. But our fragile landscapes are under threat as never before, not least from climate change, and our challenge is to understand, support and enhance them.
Leader’s Landscape Training is aimed at outdoor practitioners to help deepen your understanding of Cumbria’s landscapes and enable you to pass on your new-found knowledge to those with whom you work.
Workshop detail:
Leaders' Landscape Training 2024
Understanding Tranquility
Date: Friday 9th August, 9am – 1pm
Session content: Tranquillity is one of many components that come together to create the overall character of a landscape, and it is something that many visitors to the Lake District and Cumbria come to enjoy but it is often misunderstood or not fully understood even by those tasked with protecting it. In this session, our Planning Officer Lorayne Wall and Policy Officer Kate Willshaw will guide you on an exploration of tranquillity using the landscape of our land at The Helm to help us consider questions such as What is tranquillity?, Why is it important? How do we experience it?, How do we protect tranquillity? and how should we take tranquillity into account in decisions that affect the landscape?
Leaders: Lorayne Wall – Planning Officer - Friends of the Lake District (can be contacted on 07854092522, reception allowing!)
Organiser: Kay Andrews, Friends of the Lake District
Location: FLD-owned land at The Helm, near Kendal
Meet location: The Helm – Layby at SD 535 899
Getting here and parking: Please consider using the train or the bus if possible. The meeting point is just 5 minutes’ walk from Oxenholme Station, which is also the location of two bus stops serving the 41/41A route. The Helm has several parking opportunities – we suggest Layby at SD 534 892 as first option or Layby at 536 901 (then walk past the pub and across the road to meet point at SD 535 899)
Start & finish time: 10 am – 3:00 pm. Please be there in good time for a 10am start
Walk grade: Easy/Moderate
Please bring:
A packed lunch, drink & walk kit for all weathers. (Please note there is no indoor backup venue so the walk will go ahead in poor weather unless unreasonable or unsafe to do so). You might also like to bring a note book and pen to capture information from the day.
To note:
If you have booked on to the event but need to cancel, please do contact us to let us know you won’t be coming. Please notify us at least 48 hours before the event so we can offer your place to someone else. Any cancellations within 48 hours of the event will not receive a refund.