Mend Our Mountains: Lake District
Fix The Fells ranger funding
Fix the Fells is a path repair and maintenance programme to protect paths in the Lake District UNESCO World Heritage site from erosion through regular repair and maintenance work parties and donations. Their rangers work for the National Trust and are highly skilled in path restoration in tune with the natural landscape. They lead teams of volunteers from Cumbria and beyond in all weathers up into the mountains to restore and improve damaged footpaths. Want to help out? Join them on a Get Stuck In event here.
Mend Our Mountains 2024 will help fund a ranger service to support the work of the Fix the Fells teams in the Lake District National Park for a year. Money raised will be used directly for path repair and will allow the teams the flexibility to use the money when and where it is most needed.
The key responsibilities of the ranger team will include:
- Deliver a programme of practical upland path work between 1 April and 31 October 2024, in line with the Fix the Fells path work plan for 2024.
- Plan and prioritise suitable interventions to address upland erosion, primarily through upland path work. Produce a path specification for each route to be worked on.
- Track progress on path work through before and after photos. Complete a job sheet for each route completed, which documents the interventions delivered.
Fix The Fells Project Updates
Mend Our Mountains Articles
If you're a BMC member or if you have made a donation to the BMC Access & Conservation Trust (ACT), you are directly supporting our Mend Our Mountains campaign which is funding Fix the Fells again this year. Your contributions enable rangers like Caroline Mercer to consistently repair and manage the Lake District paths that we love to walk on. We caught up with Caroline on a path above Derwent Water, near Keswick, to find out about a typical day in her life - it's pretty hard work!
Mend Our Mountains Articles
If you're a BMC member or if you have made a donation to the BMC Access & Conservation Trust (ACT), you are directly supporting our Mend Our Mountains campaign which is funding Fix the Fells again this year. Your contributions enable rangers like Liam Prior to consistently repair and manage the Lake District paths that we love to walk on. We caught up with Liam on the very popular path up Scafell Pike from Wasdale Head to find out what a typical day in his life is like - it's quite demanding!
Mend Our Mountains Articles
The BMC’s volunteering arm, Get Stuck In, donated £1,500 to Fix the Fells this week to buy footpath repair tools to enable our teams to quite literally get stuck in to fixing the mountain footpaths in the Lake District.
Our Projects
Learn more about the invaluable work we are supporting across England and Wales. The BMC has raised over £1.4 million so far for the Mend Our Mountains Project. That's 50 miles of fragile footpath restored for future generations. 544 miles of upland repaired - the equivalent to over 67,000 double decker buses so far!
Cotswolds AONB
Mend Our Mountains will be funding a new role of an Access Officer to facilitate and unlock a wide range of work focused on access and removing barriers.
North York Moors
Mend Our Mountains will be restoring the access routes on one of the North East’s most iconic peaks: Roseberry Topping. The Pathway Restoration project will focus on ten sections of path around and leading to the top of Roseberry Topping that need repair.
South Downs National Park
The South Downs Way National Trail climbs Washington Bostal (a sunken chalk trackway) up towards Chanctonbury Ring. The surface of the bostal, which is a public bridleway, has deteriorated with deep ruts making it difficult for walkers, cyclists and equestrians to negotiate. Mend Our Mountains will fund the regrading and repair of the 800m trackway.
Get Stuck In! Volunteer Days
'Get Stuck In!' volunteer events are a key part of repairing our footpaths, funded by Mend Our Mountains.
Here, you have an opportunity to get out on the hillside, learn new skills and meet like-minded people whilst making a real difference to our wild places. Take a look at the upcoming dates and get stuck in!
