Last updated at 15:47, Monday, 26 November 2012

A MAGNIFICENT 2,488 participants took part in the 46th Keswick to Barrow walk on May 12, plus 316 in the Coniston to Barrow – raising a record £310,291 for good causes. The cash was handed out at a presentation at Abbey House last night

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South Walney Infant and Nursery School £100
For wellington boots for the children working in the school allotment

St Bernard’s Catholic High School Learning Support £150
To buy specialist reading books for reluctant boy readers in our learning support department

Abbey Road Baptist Church £200
For more tables for clubs, societies and groups that meet at the church hall

Coniston Football Club £200
To buy a strimmer for the club

Royal National Lifeboat Institution £200

South Lakes Search & Rescue £200

Ulverston Amateur Operatic Society £200

Motor Neurone Disease Association £220

Bluebirds Study Centre@Barrow AFC £250

Broughton Under Fives Nursery & Playgroup £250

Lake District Calvert Trust £250

Morecambe Bay Hospitals Charity £250

Samaritans Of Furness £250

St John’s Hospice £250

1st St Peter’s Ireleth with Askam Brownies £300
To buy equipment for pack holiday

2nd Ireleth with Askam Rainbows £300
For crafts, activities and a Rainbow sleepover adventure

3rd Duddon (Askam & Ireleth) Scout Group £300
For a computer projector, speakers and screen

Aqua Babes £300
To pay for Aquacise classes for ladies who have, or have had, breast cancer

Askam & Ireleth Community Centre Ltd £300
For safety flooring to enable the area to be used by children

Askam Village School PTA £300
For guided reading books, maths games, PE equipment and computer software

Askam Youth Action £300
For arts and crafts, toys and table tennis table

Cambridge Primary School £300
For toys

Coniston First Responders £300
For pagers that alert responders to a call out

Cumbria Action for Sustainability £300
For DraughtBusting service

Drop Zone Youth Projects £300
For activities and options for young ex- offenders to cut down risk of re-offending

Duddon Sports Junior Football Club £300
For new under-seven team in the Barrow and District football league

Emmanuel Christian Centre £300
For new equipment for toddler group

Friends of Frizington Nursery School £300

Grizebeck Village Hall Committee £300
For more tables for events such as weddings and christenings

Little Acorns £300
For equipment for activities

Millom Rugby League £300
To improve toilet facilities and footpath for disabled guests

North West Blood Bikes – Lancs & Lakes £300
For insulated blood bags/boxes and reflective jackets etc, to aid the continuing provision of supplying blood, breast milk, medical and documentation out of working hours to hospitals in the North West

Our Lady & St James’ RC Church Millom £300
Towards £5,000 repair work on Sanctuary wall of the church

Riversiders Trust £300

South Cumbria PRU £300
To work with Bevan House residents

St Mary & St Michael Church Great Urswick £300
To extend use of Parish Room in village of Great Urswick and catchment area

St Pius X Catholic Primary School £300

Tilly and Toms Day Nursery Ltd £300
To develop an outside play area for the children who attend our nursery

Trinity Church Centre £300
The church steeple is in need of repair and the cost will be in the region of £5,000

Ulverston Walking Festival Group £300
For publicity a web site, banners, posters, walking leaflets and car stickers

Walney Island Community First Responders £300
For replenishment of call out high viz clothing and upkeep of equipment and training aids

World Owl Trust £300
For a wooden gazebo to help with fundraising at the centre

Alice’s Escapes £350

Friends Of Captain Shaws Association £350

Millom School £350

Sight Advice South Lakes £350
For specialist software called Voiceye which will allow us to create information that can be read by smart phones.

Sumatran Tiger Trust £350
To fund patrol teams to ensure that illegal logging and poaching does not occur

1 Voice Communicating together local branch 1 Voice Lakes and Bay £400
To subsidise places for families of children who use communication aids on a trip to the Bendrigg Trust outdoor activities centre in June

A590 Youth Theatre Group £400
To help young people learn new skills through dance, drama and music

Haverigg Primary School £400

Wildcats Wheelchair Sports Club £400
For our weekly wheelchair multi-sport sessions for children with a disability

Bardsea Malt Kiln £450 To replace two fire doors in the main hall.

Cerebral Palsy Cumbria £450
For pop up boards and publicity

Fell Pony Society £450

Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland £450
For palliative care to patients who wish to remain at home

Sandside Lodge School £400
For refurbishment of our sensory room

Speakability Kendal £450
For new computer equipment

Waberthwaite C of E School £450

West Cumbria Rape Crisis £450
To provide art therapy

Abbeyfield Barrow in Furness Society Ltd £500
For redecorating and refurnishing a lounge at Millennium House

Age UK West Cumbria £500
For our Growing Friendships Garden project at Bradbury Centre

Arthritis Care Hydrotherapy Group, Barrow £500
For hydrotherapy pool treatment for branch members with arthritis.

Barrow Citizens Advice Bureau £500
For volunteers’ travel

Barrow Digital Photography Club £500
For a laptop

Barrow RespectAbility Project for Age UK Barrow £500
For Barrow RespectAbility project

Casualties Union £500
For training aids

Citizens Advice South Lakeland £500
For recruiting, training and supporting volunteers

Copeland Amateur Swimming Club £500
To raise around £10,000 to purchase a new electronic timing system

Copeland Citizens Advice Bureau £500
For the purchase of two additional computers for the Millom office.

Coronation House £500
For renewing rear boundary fence

Cumbria Mental Health Group £500
For upgrading or replacing computers

Dalton Methodist Church £500
For drop in social gatherings

Headway South Cumbria £500
For trips and activities

Kendal Sea Cadets £500
For dining tables

Kidsafe (UK) £500
For cyber bullying prevention workshops to year 5 and 6 pupils in Cumbrian Primary Schools

Lindal & Marton Primary School £500

Manna House £500
For new equipment for Skills Cafe.

Mayors Fund £500

Pennington Nursery £500
For toys/bikes/shed for our children to enjoy outside play.

Silverdale Street Activity Group £500
To upgrade the lounge area

South Cumbria Dyslexia Association £500
For classroom rental for one to one tuition of dyslexic children in Barrow

Stepping Stones £500

Alzheimers Society £550

Animal Refuge Furness £550

Animal Welfare Barrow £550

Barrow and District Dial a Ride £600
For wheelchair Unwin Webbing Restraint Systems

Barrow Romania Action Group £600
For improvements to one of the orphanage buildings

Centre for Complementary Care Eskdale £600
For refurbishing premises

Friends of the Adventures Youth Club £600

Furness Breast Cancer Support Group £600
For publishing events programme

Morecambe Bay Hospitals Charity £600

Askam & Ireleth Responders (AIR): £650

Bonus Swimming Club for the Physically Disabled £650
For pool hire to enable physically disabled people from Furness and district to benefit from access to the swimming pool.

Cancer Research UK £650

College House Day Nursery: £650
For equipment for sensory room

Duddon Canoe Club £650
To buy 2 racing boats.

Feature Youth Club £650
For equipment

Gosforth & District First Responders £650

James Rennie Parent Teachers and Friends Association £650

Morecambe Bay Hospitals Charity £650

Seascale Sports Hall Trust £650
For sports and play equipment

11th Barrow the Beacon Scout Group £700
For a new storage shed

1st Dalton Guides £700
To offer all the girls the opportunity to attend camp this year

6th Duddon Dalton Methodist Scout Group £700
For lockable storage units

Ann Hood Music Award £700
To help sponsor music students

Askam ARLFC Youth £700
For sports equipment and coaching courses

Barrow & Districts Society for the Blind Limited £700
For team of welfare officers who help 500 visually impaired clients

Barrow Army Cadet Force £700
For a team building trip

Barrow Celtic FC £700
For the community playing surface at Newby Terrace football pitch

Barrow Community Trust £700
To support our work promoting philanthropy in the area

Barrow Deaf Club £700
To support profoundly deaf BSL (British Sign Language) signers

Barrow Island ARLFC £700
For extension to club house

Barrow Operatic and Dramatic Society £700
To encourage young people to become involved

Barrow Round Table £700

For community projects

Coniston Mountain Rescue Team £700
For Swift Water Rescue equipment

Coniston Sports and Social Centre £700
For an Automatic External Defibrillator

Cumbria Youth Alliance £700
For employment and training for young people

Duddon Inshore Rescue £700
For a VHF radio course

Friends of Newbarns School £700
For school funds

Friends of Seascale School £700
For a new Maths Scheme

Furness Branch of Parkinsons UK £700
To fund monthly therapy sessions at Ulverston Health Centre.

Furness Lions Club £700
To aid those less fortunate

Furness Multiple Sclerosis Society £700
For therapies to help members

Furness Stroke Support Group £700
For specialised transport.

Great North Air Ambulance Service £700

Guide dogs for the Blind (Grange) £700
To train Guide Dogs

Haverigg Inshore Rescue Team £700
For a new GPS and an AIS for tracking the lifeboat via computer

Hawcoat Park Junior Cricket section £700
For equipment for juniors, aged 8 to 16 years

Hawcoat Park Youth Rugby £700
For new teams at Under-nines, Under-10s, Under-12s and Under-14s

Kids Out South Cumbria £700
To take 80 children and 20 helpers on a day out in the Lakes

Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team £700

Lowick Community Hall £700
To replace the draughty floor in the main hall (estimate £4,000)

Making Space (Barrow-in-Furness) £700
For activities for carers and service users

Maryport Rescue £700
For new pagers with back up text

Millom & District Community First Responders £700
For defibrillators and equipments

Millom Bike Group £700
To The Pride of Cumbria Great North Air Ambulance Service

North West 4x4 Response £700

Riding For The Disabled Furness Group £700
To support the group

Rotary Club Of Barrow £700
To assist some smaller charities

Rotary Club of Furness Peninsula £700
To support local charities

South Copeland Disability Group £700
For insurance, licences, room hire, stationary

SSAFA Forces Help Cumbria: £700
To equip caseworkers and other volunteers with fleeces for winter

St James’ CE Junior School: £700

St Mary’s Hospice £700

Submariners Association - Barrow Branch £700
To support military and ex-service charities and provide welfare provision for local widows

The Birchall Trust £700
To increase counselling and therapeutic art and play sessions available for local children affected by rape and sexual abuse

The Bluebell Foundation £700
To provide services free of charge

Tuesday Handicapped Club £700
To help pay for a new minibus

Ulverston Inshore Rescue £700
RYA intermediate and advanced powerboat training during 2013

Alice’s Escapes £750

British Heart Foundation (Barrow Branch) £750

Help For Heroes £750

St Mary’s Hospice £750

Barrow District Scout Association £800
To make safety improvements to the district buildings (HQ in Park Drive and the hall at Urswick camp-site)

Hawcoat Park Sports and Social Club £800
Towards cost of New Kitchen.

Lakes Leisure £800

Lindale Village Playground Fund £800

Millom Recreation Centre Ltd £800

To provide crash mats for new Millom Gymnastics Club, that Millom Recreation Centre are about to start (the first in the town for 20 years)

Ulverston & District Disabled Club £800
Funding towards the annual members’ trip to Thornton Cleveleys.

Barrow Rotary Club Trip to Calvert Trust £850
To help send two local people with disabilities to attend a week of activities at Calvert Trust Centre

Great North Air Ambulance Service £900

13th Barrow (Trinity ) Guide Unit £950
For Blackpool trip or to an activity centre to do kayaking or climbing

CancerCare North Lancashire & South Lakeland: £950

BAE Systems First Aid Corps: £1,000
To help with running costs

Barrow Sea Cadets £1,000
For new specialisation of communications systems

Barrow Senior Citizens Section Committee £1,000
To buy equipment or materials to run the groups.

RUMIC Foundation Trust £1,000
The award money will be donated to children’s services in Barrow.

Vicarage Park Church of England Primary Association, Kendal: £1,050

CancerCare North Lancashire & South Lakeland £1,100

Morecambe Bay Hospitals Charity £1,150

Duddon Dragons Explorer Scout Unit £1,200
Purchase additional lightweight camping and backpacking equipment as the unit has doubled in size since last year

Furness Prostate Cancer Support Group £1,200

The Duddon & Furness Mountain Rescue Team £1,200
For a new Automatic External Defibrillator

The Karl Hatt Junior Fund: £1,250

Spring Mount Christian Fellowship £1,350
For a new minibus

Duddon & High Furness Scouts Xenolith ESU £1,400

Rosemere Cancer Foundation £1,400
For complimentary therapies for cancer patients

Mind in Furness £1,500
For transport costs for the partnership project with the National Trust

St John Ambulance £1,500
For a new defibrillator

Askam KidZone £1,600
For new equipment and to help cover running costs

Kendal Mountain Search and Rescue Team £1,700
To replace an old vehicle with a Toyato Hylux

Bay Search and Rescue £2,000
For a Rescues from Vehicles in Water course for eight team members

Croft Care Trust £2,000
For a large patio area with raised flower beds

Dowdales School £2,000
To run and maintain a minibus

Great North Air Ambulance Service £2,000
To support on-going running costs

Huntingtons Disease Association - Cumbria Branch £2,000
To support sufferers of this devastating genetic disease and their families

HEFF – Hospital Equipment Fund for Furness: £2,500
To buy volumetric pumps for Furness General Hospital children’s ward

National Autistic Society – Furness Branch £2,500
To support families of children and young people with autism

Barrow & District Disability Association £2,800
Eden Valley Hospice £3,000
To provide the best facilities for the adults and children who have terminal or life-limiting illnesses

St Johns Hospice £3,000
To buy new beds in-patient units

Viking Hoard Fund – Dock Museum £4,000
To help secure Viking Hoard for Furness area

Cumbria Police £4,734
To provide speed monitoring signs

Dystonia Society Furness & South Lakes Group £4,900
To provide some social and support activities for people with dystonia

North West Air Ambulance £5,000
Each rescue costs the North West Air Ambulance charity about £2,500

Help For Heroes £5,700
Practical support to wounded, injured and sick Service personnel, veterans, and their families

Alzheimers Society £6,400
To maintain advice and services

Furness Motor Neurone Disease £7,500
To hold training and awareness days

Macmillan Cancer Support £9,000
Helping people in financial difficulty as a result of cancer

Alice’s Escapes £11,400
For complimentary holidays for families with a seriously ill child

St Mary’s Hospice £13,500
Creating a sensory space

Cancer Research UK £20,000
Develop and test new, more effective treatments for cancer

Multiple Sclerosis Society £135

Direct Rainwater Intervention Project £150

Cardiac Risk in the Young £200

Pulmonary Hypertension Association £200

World Horse Welfare £200

UNICEF UK £220

St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice £250

Alex House Friends Group £300

SSAFA Bereaved Families Support Group £300

East Anglain Air Ambulance £350

Kirkwood Hospice £350

Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance £350

Support our Soldiers £350

The Childrens Hospital Charity £350

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Charitable funds Trust fund £400

Caudwell Children £400
To take a young boy and his family to Florida

Farleigh Hospice £400

Pancreatic Cancer UK £400

When You Wish Upon A Star £400

Anthony Nolan £450

Jack Marshall Brain Tumour Fund £450

Lymphoma Association £450

Saint Michaels Hospice £450

Step by Step A School for Autistic Children £450

Wellbank Preschool £450

Chronic obstuctive pulmonary disease support group £500

Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research £500

Phoenix Hospital Radio £500

Rock FMs Cash for Kids £500

Seafarers UK £500

St Giles Hospice £500

Trinity Hospice & Palliative Care Services £500

Footprints Orphanage £550

St Catherines Hospice (Lancashire) Limited £550

The Stroke Association £550

Kirkwood Hospice £600

St Andrews Hospice £600

Support our Soldiers £600

Scottish Association For Child With Heart Disorders £615

COPS – Care of Police Survivors £700

Foodcycle £700

Meningitis Trust £700

The Guillain-Barr Syndrome Support Group £700

2nd Thurso Scout group £750

Bath Opportunity Pre-School £750

Derby & District RSPCA £750

Everyman Male Cancer Appeal £750

Heart Link £750

Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research £750

Lymphoma Association £750

North Highland Cancer Information & Support Centre £750

Thurso Youth Club £750

Yorkhill Childrens Foundation £750

Halton Haven Hospice £800

St. Andrews First Aid £800

Autism Initiatives £850

Stepping Stones Nigeria £1,000

The Clarence Adoo Trust £1,000

Cardiac Risk in the Young £1,050

Multiple Sclerosis Society (Trafford branch) £1,050

Nepalese Childrens Trust £1,100

Scope £1,100

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity £1,150

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Charity £1,200

NSPCC £1,242

National Autistic Society £1,300

Sarcoma trust £1,300

Multiple Sclerosis Society £1,400

British Heart Foundation (National) £1,500

Soldiers Sailors Airmen & Families Association (SSAFA) Lichfield & Tamworth £1,600

Teenage Cancer Trust £1,700

Trinity Hospice & Palliative Care Services £1,750

BLESMA – British Limbless Ex-Service Mens Association £1,800

The Christie charity £1,900

Cancer Research UK £1,975

Cardiac Risk in the Young £2,000

Crohns and Colitis UK £2,000

Syria Relief £2,000

League Of Friends To The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital £2,050

The PBC Foundation £2,100

Women’s Cancer Fund 0479 £2,350

353 ltd £3,100

Willowbrook Hospice £3,400

Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group £5,100

Connor Whipp Fan Appeal Fund £6,000

First published at 16:09, Friday, 23 November 2012
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