Bowness and Windermere Community Care Trust
Bowness and Windermere Community Care Trust (BWCCT) is a registered charity which exists to promote the well-being of the local community by engaging, responding, caring and serving.
BWCCT deliver a range of services with the support of volunteers and paid staff. These services include a weekly luncheon club and a lunchtime meals delivery service for older people, “Windermeals” . Unfortunately due to a shortage of volunteers the Windermeals service has had to be suspended. The Phoenix Centre in Windermere is owned and managed by BWCCT and is available for hire for meetings, classes, events and parties. Some of our regular groups include Windermere Youth Project, Heathwaite Football Club, Windermere Sea Scouts, Windermere Weight trainers, U3A Table Tennis, Volleyball, Jo Wood( Advanced Personal Training), Stan the Salsa Man, South Cumbria Breastfeeding Support Group and Rhythm Time South Lakes and Furness. BWCCT also undertakes other projects for the benefit of the local community. Recent projects have included work with our local Primary Schools providing creative dance, music making and inter-generational projects involving the schools and residents at Goodly Dale Cottage Homes, Applethwaite Green and Birthwaite Flats. We also provide support and time to assist the Lakes School Community Partnership in their fundraiser activities to provide students with addiotnal equipment and resources that would not otherwise be available within the school budget. The Phoenix Centre Activity Hall is available to rent from as little as £33.00 per session (inclusive of VAT) for children's parties and free to attend sports activities and from £12.50 per hour for community/charitable organisation meetings/events (minimum 2 hour booking) The Project Room on the first floor is also available for social club style activities and is also available at the rates quoted above. Bookings for commercial organisation meetings and training activities also welcomed at £60.00 plus VAT per 5 hour session. JUST AVAILABLE: is your community organisation seeking a base from which to operate? We are able to offer a recently vacated first floor office equipped with built-in desking and ready to go wi-fi. For further details contact Bill Smith on 07766 208082 The Trust was incorporated as a limited company on the 11th of October 1999
(no. 03857179) and is a registered charity (no. 1079452). |
BWCCT is managed by a Board of Trustees. The trustees are: 
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