Ullswater Catchment Management CIC

27/08/2026

It’s Patterdale Dog Day on Saturday, a great day out for all the family with sheep dog trials, sheep and dog shows, fell race, lots of stalls, and of course food and drink! 🐑🐶🌭🍻
We will be milling around and Maddy is helping with the dog classes, so come along and say hello 👋 😊

20/08/2026

We have made it to the final of the Living Landscapes Award 😊Please show your support and vote for us in the People’s Choice!! 🙏 (link below)

We are proud of how our work not only improves and protects the landscape, but also supports the people and communities that live and work in it, all the things that make a real Living Landscape!! 🐑🏡🌳🦆
Thank you!

https://www.cnp.org.uk/national-parks-movement/national-park-protector-awards/

It's time to show your love for our National Park Protectors and vote for your People’s Choice nominee 💚

Our judging panel has selected their top 20 National Park Protectors, with the winner to be announced at our award ceremony in October.

Until then, you can show your love for our National Park Protectors and vote for your People’s Choice nominee 2026.

⌛Voting closes Sunday 30 August

Thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund Marsh Charitable Trust Ramble Worldwide Natural England for sponsoring our awards 💚

Vote 👉 https://www.cnp.org.uk/national-parks-movement/national-park-protector-awards/

05/08/2026

We recently stocked up on some fabulous meat from Miller Farming
They are a very busy family ran farm that produces grass fed beef and lamb, outdoor reared pork, as well as having 6000 free range hens, bees, and also host farm visits and sheepdog demonstrations 👏alongside having great wildlife habitats on their farm👏
Did we mention they are also cracking folk too and we are lucky to have Garry as one of our directors 😊
If you’re passing on the A66, call in to their farm shop and buy some great produce😋

28/07/2026

Grass fed beef available from just down the road at Gowbarrow Hall Farm 😋 get your orders in quick!!👍

Hello. We don’t post very often, so for those that don’t know us, we are at Gowbarrow Hall Farm by Ullswater and we sell pasture for life certified beef, which means we do not use any grain feed - our cattle graze naturally on our pastures all year round. The farm is also now certified organic. We use our cows to restore habitats and we have seen an incredible increase in biodiversity across the farm since we’ve been managing the farm regeneratively.

We typically sell our beef in beef boxes of different size options (see website https://gowbarrow.co.uk/our-cows/)

We are doing a round of boxes in the first week of August and we will deliver it to you personally for free if you’re local or via courier if not. If you’d like to order one, please feel free to message me directly and I can send more info or fill in an order form on our website.

21/07/2026

A glorious evening to be doing some repairs and tidying up in our fields before the cattle come in to graze them ☀️
The wood and hedges are bouncing and one of the ponds is still holding some water even in this really dry spell.
The sheepdog has also learnt a very useful trick of helping to carry old tree guards 😂 👏

16/07/2026

Had a look back on a little river restoration project we did in 2024 with Basecamp North Lakes

Even in these low flows there were lots of Brown Trout and Atlantic Salmon fry present which was great to see. Atlantic Salmon are now classed as endangered in Great Britain and need all the help they can get.

These smaller streams and tributaries are often overlooked and not given the attention they need, but a little bit of widening, fencing back from the edge and creating better habitat to spawn and these little streams become the engines driving our fish populations. If we don’t have little fish we won’t have big ones !

05/06/2026

Sick to death of the small minded vandals who’ve been to trash our work at again 😡🤬

For the second time, vandals have targeted and destroyed some of the trees we planted along the

Because of this senseless malice, we have made the difficult decision that we can’t justify replanting a third time. There’s a lot of people’s time, money and energy gone into this. very kindly donated towards replanting after the first years vandalism

Some trees are still growing and we’ll leave them to see what happens, hopefully some will get established, but we can’t keep replanting just to provide wood for fires (it’s wet green wood and won’t give off any heat anyway)

Everyone needs to understand the gravity of what these vandals have done. These trees weren’t just for show. They were planted to stabilize the banks and prevent the Ullswater Way from eroding and completely washing out. IF, and there’s every chance in the future that the footpath could wash out, there won’t be a quick fix. In reality the footpath could be closed for a long time

I’d ask that if you see anyone trashing the area, or deliberately leaving gates open so the sheep can get in and eat the trees please let us know so we can see what is salvageable

Thank you to all the decent folk out there who look after and appreciate this amazing place, I’m sorry to have to post this

29/05/2026

Our landscapes are so complex, so how do we balance the needs of people, heritage and communities with that of wildlife and nature?

For us it’s about finding balance, wetlands and ponds in poor land which allows dragonflies, butterflies and wading birds to thrive 🦋🦆

Restoring and replanting hedgerows to connect habitats together once more 🦔🌳

Improving hay meadows so that they work for nature and farming 🌻🌸

Re-wiggling and repairing rivers where appropriate, so that they can work for the Salmon and Trout, temporarily hold floodwater, but in drier times provide grazing and grass 🐟🐑🐄

It’s a huge undertaking but we’re so grateful to everyone who helps make this community what it is 🙏

18/05/2026

Massive thank you to the incredible team in Pooley Bridge 🌟

Thanks to their fantastic recent fundraiser, a staggering £4,000 was raised to support the local environment and community

The funds are being generously shared between two local causes

- helping to keep everyone safe on the fells

And ourselves working to look after our community and landscape that we all love

We are so incredibly grateful for the support of and everyone who has contributed. Community spirit at its absolute best 🙌

11/05/2026

In February Dan spoke to Rachel Burden from BBC Radio 4’s Cafe Hope programme, and it was aired today📻great conversation about the work we do and how something positive has come from the destruction of Storm Desmond☀️👏
BBC Radio 4

How one group is using nature to help prevent flooding in the future.