Sausages & Cider / AGM

The Cartmel Fell Volunteers had their inaugural AGM on 28th June 2025 with a very well-attended Sausage & Cider BBQ.

AGM

The Volunteers reported on a varied and busy time to date:

• Martin gave a chairman's report on the volunteers activities.

• Julian gave the financial report for the group including the grant from DEFRA / W&C council for the orchard and nuttery.

• Fiona gave a description of the current structure of the membership and a change was made to the constitution to allow members to be co-opted to the committee.

• Some of our volunteers have now joined as members with voting rights at the next AGM.

  

  
  

Activities the Cartmel Fell Volunteers have been involved with included:

• BBQ & Sausage & Cider Festival, Film nights, Tipi event with & Food bank collection.

• Chainsaw course, Paths & invasive species cleared on the allotment.

• Planting of a new orchard and nuttery and building of tree protection cages.

• Woodland Walk with illustrations, a trail story and a quiz and woodcraft characters.

• Helping others - St Anthony's Church, Dry Stone Walling Association, CFCT & PEAT.

Sausages & Cider

For the aficionado of the Great English Sausage and of Craft Cider and Perry, the event represented almost Nirvana!

We had a great turnout of residents and friends, and the grillmasters were cooking bangers all evening including the very popular Gloucester Old Spot sausages, and we had Gluten Free and Not Pork veggie options plus some delicious puddings donated by members of the community.

The display boards in the hall showed some of the activities we have been doing over the last year and people enjoyed trying different local ciders and perry.

Thank you to everyone who made the event possible by helping set up, run it, put it all away again, or donated desserts and bought tickets to come along.