Want to join me in making a difference?

I'm raising money to help this small charity deliver fun community events and offer quality volunteering experiences to a range of folk from within west Cumbria.

From 2026-2028, we need help to run free family activities, offer educational visits for school groups and to support a busy volunteer work programme. We have put a project plan together and have called it the 'Celebrating our Watermill Project' to acknowledge 2026 as the 50th anniversary of the mill open to the public as a visitor attraction.

Eskdale Mill is the last working watermill in the Lake District. Our volunteers get involved with the daily operations here at our historic watermill. They all get to learn transferable skills, receive training and share their enthusiasm with our visitors and event attendees. This watermill wouldn't be able to run without the support of the small volunteer team.

We have received an offer of 47% from Copeland Community Fund but despite lots of applications and enquiries to other funding bodies, we've so far been unable to secure the rest of the amount required to launch the project. To secure the offer of funding so far, we need to raise over £15,000 before the end of June.

All donations here will go towards the match funding needed for the project.

Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause.