Make a difference, build stronger teams, create lasting impact
Good things happen when organisations work together. That’s why we’re always keen to build corporate charity partnerships with businesses that want to achieve something positive and lasting in the community. Your business has the power to make a real difference.
By partnering with the Lake District Calvert Trust, your organisation can help transform lives through outdoor adventure, while bringing your people together around a shared purpose.
There are lots of ways to get involved with a charity partnership, whether that’s sponsoring a specific project, making us your charity of the year, taking on a team challenge or supporting our fundraising through matched giving. Help us raise funds, provide practical support, volunteer your time or share your skills and expertise.
Your support can help us reach more people, create new opportunities and make sure our experiences are accessible to those who need them most. And because every business is different, we’ll work with you to create a charity corporate partnership that feels right for your team and your values.
Together, we can help more people experience the life-changing benefits of the outdoors.
It’s not just about writing a cheque. A great partnership is about getting involved, meeting the people your support helps and seeing the difference you’re making first-hand.
Whether you’re a small local business or a larger organisation, there’s a place for you here.
We genuinely see our corporate supporters as partners. We understand that every organisation has different priorities, values and ambitions, so we’ll work with you to forge a partnership that creates meaningful social impact. A partnership with the Lake District Calvert Trust can help you:
Corporate partners in a partnership with our charity can support us in a wide variety of ways. Fundraise for us with unique events, fun challenges and exciting products, or name us as your charity of the year. However you decide to get involved, we’ll work with your business to ensure your generous support makes a real difference. Below are just a few of the ways our charity corporate partnerships work.
Each and every corporate partnership helps us provide more opportunities for people with disabilities and additional needs to discover what they can achieve through outdoor adventure. Your support can help someone:
The Lake District Calvert Trust has welcomed people with disabilities to exciting outdoor adventures in the Lakes for 50 years. We literally change lives, one adventure at a time.
By supporting us, your business could have real, tangible and lasting impact on the lives of those who visit us. Help us improve access to accessible, and inclusive experiences that people of all abilities can enjoy.
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. You could support us financially, sponsor a project, organise a fundraising activity, volunteer with us, donate equipment or skills, or help us spread the word. We’ll work with you to find an approach that best suits your business, your ambitions and your people.
There’s no set amount. Every contribution makes a difference, and we’re happy to talk about options that work for your organisation and budget.
We’ll agree this with you when we set up the partnership.
Depending on the type of support, it could contribute towards our Enabling Adventure Fund, help develop new activities, buy equipment, improve facilities or provide opportunities for the people we support.
“Wheelchair users belong in adventure spaces.
And weekends like this show exactly what can happen when accessibility, inclusion and determination come together.
A huge thank you … to the amazing staff at Calvert Lakes for showing what true inclusive adventure looks like.”
We’d love to hear from you!
Whether you’re looking for a charity of the year, a team challenge, a volunteering opportunity, an event to sponsor or a fundraising idea that’s completely unique to your organisation, we’d love to work with you.
Tell us about your organisation, your goals and what matters to you and your people and we’ll help create a corporate partnership that makes a real, lasting difference.
Find out more about our exciting corporate challenges – perfect for team building
Make the Lake District Calvert Trust your Charity of the Year and give your employees the opportunity to get behind a cause that has a real and lasting impact.
We’ll work with you to develop a tailored programme of fundraising, volunteering, events and activities that fits your organisation.
Depending on your goals, this could include:
🏃 Fundraising & Challenges
🎟️ Exclusive Event Opportunities
🎄 The Big Give Christmas Challenge
🏔️ Team Building with Purpose
Your people. Your goals. Our shared purpose.
Looking for a focused way to make an impact?
Become an event or programme sponsor and support a specific event, activity or area of our work that aligns with your organisation’s values and objectives.
From supporting outdoor activity programmes to helping us provide accessible experiences for people with disabilities, your sponsorship can have a direct and measurable impact.
We’ll work with you to identify an opportunity that connects your brand with a cause your employees and customers can get behind.
Help us celebrate our 50th birthday by taking part in our 50 for 50 Challenge.
It’s a simple, flexible and fun way for businesses to bring employees together, raise money and create their own memorable challenge.
Take the number 50 and make it your own.
How about:
However you choose to take on 50, you’ll be helping us continue our work and giving more people the opportunity to experience the outdoors.
What will your 50 be?
We’re passionate about working with organisations that share our belief that everyone should have the opportunity to experience the benefits of the outdoors.
If your organisation is committed to:
Inclusion, accessibility and equality – helping to remove barriers and create opportunities for everyone.
Health, wellbeing and outdoor activity – supporting happier, healthier people through meaningful outdoor experiences.
Community impact and social responsibility – making a positive contribution to communities and creating lasting social impact.
Then we’d love to talk to you.
At Calvert Lakes we have three main accommodation areas housed in two separate buildings – the Farmhouse and the Byres. With 60 beds across 26 accessible twin, triple and quad rooms, we can cater to a wide range of needs. All rooms have an ensuite bathroom or wetroom facilities, and profiling or raisable beds, shower tables and chairs, interconnecting rooms and bed sides are all available. Even better, some of our rooms have ceiling tracking hoists! We also have portable hoists, medical fridges, alarms, monitors and other special equipment for guest use.
Downstairs in the main Farmhouse building is our modern, spacious dining room. This is the beating heart of the centre and a place to rest, recover and rejuvenate over a delicious home-cooked meal. Food is served by our friendly chefs buffet style at the pass and the menu is displayed each day. With hearty breakfasts, tasty lunches and a 3-course dinner, you won’t go hungry. We can cater to most dietary requirements, with notice, and offer a range of blended options. Whole centre bookings can also choose the menus for their stay. Tea, coffee, water and squash are available all day long and we’ll always do our best to accommodate requests where possible.
In addition to the large dining room, we have a small library, a TV room, large games room and a meeting room available for guest use. The games room is a particular highlight. Here we have a large screen TV, pool table, tuck shop (open in the evenings only), dressing up box, craft materials and lots of games. We hold regular discos in here and with ramp access and plenty of space, it is wheelchair accessible too.
Guests seeking quieter spaces have a variety of options, including our sensory garden which has both covered seating and lawn tables.
The Burgess Room is our onsite meeting room and classroom. With seating for 12-16 and sockets for everyone, this room has a large screen, projector, HDMI cables for presentations and fast fibre Wi-Fi. Ideal for curriculum-based activities during educational stays or presentations, icebreakers or debriefs.
Get in touch with our reception team to book the room for use during your stay.
Attached to our Farmhouse building, and accessible via lift access from the dining room, is our gorgeous hydrotherapy swimming pool. The water centre has two family changing rooms, two communal changing rooms and two poolside accessible changing rooms with ceiling hoists and shower trays/changing tables. Inside the pool area are sensory pool features including a fountain, bubble mat and jacuzzi area as well as a warming sauna. With stunning views across the lakes and mountains, lighting and music can be controlled by a poolside tablet and the whole pool floor can be raised to accommodate guests with limited mobility.
Upstairs in the water centre, above the pool and accessible by both lift and stairs, is our sensory room. Packed with soft surfaces, light tubes, bubble machines, tactile toys and dim lighting, this is a safe and calming space. Guests, visitors and locals can visit the sensory room and it’s bookable by the hour.
Wonderful for all ages from babies to adults, our sensory features provide immersive controlled stimulation that is soothing and engaging. Interactive toys help focus, relieve anxiety and promote relaxation in a comfortable environment that is useful for people with learning or sensory disabilities, or those with autism.
At the southern end of our site is our fantastic sports hall. Here you’ll find mobile climbing walls, a ceiling swing, abseil window and basketball court. We can offer climbing, bouldering, swinging, basketball, curling, boccia ball, ice breaker activities and all sorts of other fun with our well-equipped sports hall.
Complete with adaptive hoists, harnesses, helmets and a spectator’s gallery, guests can challenge themselves as much or as little as they like in our safe but stimulating space.
A short walk from the main centre overlooking Bassenthwaite Lake is our fantastic boathouse. Here we keep our fleet of dinghies, canoes, kayaks and safety equipment. Watersports are a highlight for most visitors, and our stunning natural surroundings don’t disappoint! The jetty has a hoist for getting less ambulant people into and out of boats and we have tons of buoyancy aids and life jackets for all shapes and sizes. Whether you fancy getting wet or not, not Calvert stay is complete without a visit to the boathouse and a play on the water.