Posted: 1 day ago
Nine apprentices from Innovia Films, the official 2013 Apprentice Team of the Year, met Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable at Westminster to discuss their recent victory in the Brathay Apprentice Challenge.
Supported by the National Apprenticeship Service, the Brathay Apprentice Challenge 2013 tested the non-technical work skills and the personal attributes of… Read More...
Posted: 3 days ago
A group of young 16-20 year-olds, from the Huyton and Roby areas of Liverpool, have discovered what it was like growing up in the city during the Second World War.
Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, 20 young people discovered how family life, rationing, recycling and community survival strategies, affected young people in… Read More...
Posted: 6 days ago
A group of environmentally aware staff, from Brathay Trust, are set to pull on their wellies and waders in a bid to rid local tributaries, which flow into Windermere, of damaging invasive, non-native species of plants (INNS).
The determined team are fiercely protective of their local environment and are taking to streams and rivers , around… Read More...
Posted: 8 days ago
Nine apprentices from Innovia Films from Cumbria have been named the country’s official ‘apprentice team of the year’ following a six month challenge against some of the country’s leading employers and training providers.
Innovia films fought off tough competition from seven other teams after raising over £6,000 for charity and completing a community project which involved… Read More...
Posted: 13 days ago
Eight fiercely determined teams of apprentices will descend on our residential training centre, on Tuesday 11th June, to battle it out to become the 2013 Brathay Apprentice Challenge Champions.
Supported by the National Apprenticeship Service, the Brathay Apprentice Challenge tests non-technical work skills, and the personal attributes, of competing apprentices.
The two-day event will test the teams’… Read More...
Posted: 5th June 2013
Carlisle Youth Council (CYC), a group of 13-21-year-olds who have come together from across the Carlisle district, to make a positive difference to the lives of local young people, are set to don their overalls, and pick up their nifty litter nabbers, in order to make the streets of Carlisle a cleaner place.
The young… Read More...
Posted: 31st May 2013
Fell running legend Joss Naylor, known as the King of the Fells amongst the running fraternity, is taking to the peaks of Cumbria again this summer in an attempt to complete a full series of runs in the Lake District Mountain Trial.
Since its inception, in 1952, Joss has been a keen follower of the Trial,… Read More...
Posted: 24th May 2013
In the bone crunching game of Rugby League, arguably the most punishing full contact sport on the planet, competition is fierce from grass-roots level all the way up to the top of the pyramid, the mighty Super League.
Battles are won and lost on desire, determination, commitment, hunger and talent. At the elite level of the… Read More...
Posted: 19th May 2013
The 2013 Brathay 10in10, the most daunting endurance run in the world, concluded on Sunday 19th May, amidst scenes of wild celebration amongst spectators and runners alike. And in the 14 strong group of athletes, who made it to the end of the punishing event, was a 39-year-old veteran of the Brathay 10in10.
In a… Read More...
Posted: 18th May 2013
As predicted the heavens opened last night washing away all the celebrations, trials and tribulations of Day 8. A day that had stated so well, under the glare of the beautiful Cumbrian sunshine, ended in desperation and sadness for the 10in10 team, with the news that Bolton runner, Phil Eccleston, had suffered a major setback… Read More...