Easter at North Lakes

FYR Grill

Monday - Saturday: 5.30pm - 9.15pm Sunday: 12.30pm - 8.30pm

Watch as our team of chefs transform ingredients into tempting dishes in the heart of the dining room. Bringing elements of the kitchen out in to the restaurant, enjoy the theatre and excitement as you wait.

Afternoon Tea

Every Day from 12pm to 4pm

A selection of finger sandwiches, homemade sausage roll and chutney, warm scones, cakes and sweet treats. From £26.95 per person

Beatles For Sale

Friday 16th June, from 7.30pm

Dance the night away with a live performance tribute act, Beatles For Sale. Includes a delicious two course meal. £49 per person

George Michael Live

Friday 15th September, from 7.30pm

Dance the night away with a live performance tribute act, George Michael Live. Includes a delicious two course meal. £42 per person

To book call the Events Team on 01768 868111 or email events@northlakeshotel.co.uk

Our volunteers – Part Two

by Lee Quinn

I would say it’s an overlooked Community Group, that runs 24 hours a day 365 days of the year. Do you know who they are? They have supported pretty much every local group and charity in Penrith and many of the towns and villages around them, up to a 25-mile radius and even as far as 45 miles away reporting sport! Before Lockdown, they we out and about in the community they served.

It’s the first time in a while I have actually written about this team solely. These people are part of a great team, committed to the community. No prizes, awards or recognition for what they achieve or continue to do. In fact, the last time I wrote about them, they attempted a Guinness World Record, with 300 people, with some fantastic support from friends. Unfortunately, due to a technical problem, they didn’t get the record that day, but experience of not achieving inspires the team to have another go on another day.

Set up as an organisation in July 2010, they had a strategy that meant following an application process that would take four years to obtain a licence to do what they do. This came with a lot of conditions that mean that as a requirement, they had to be a not-for-profit Ltd company and they could not be a charity.

They also have to have several industry licences associated with what they do, insurances and key conditions and rules in delivering what they do and how they do it, week on week, year on year. Taking into consideration all that I’ve mentioned, their income as a condition of licencing is also capped in areas to prevent them from being a commercial entity.

In order to do what they do from an energy point of view, they raise funds to be switched on 24 hours every day and can never be switched off. The senior team has an element of on call duties as volunteers. The equipment use has to be of a high specification, custom built with endurance run 24 hours every day. These key components have to be made to order, which can take 6 to 12 weeks and most of the equipment they have has been sanitised within an inch of its life!

The Eden Local magazine was actually created to launch this organisation as a project in 2010, to recruit its first team so it could switch on in 2011. In 2014 this small team of local people produced leaflets and even a free newspaper to support the need of raising awareness that the town of Penrith would need a town council to prepare it for a unitary system.

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