Anthony Smith

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Fundraising for The Lake District Calvert Trust

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I am running the Great North Run for the Lake District Calvert Trust.

Fourteen years ago I moved to the Lake District to escape city life. My commute to work now takes in the incredible scenery of Windermere and I enjoy long walks in the hills at the weekend with my family and a fat, but game, Jack Russell terrier.

It is important to me that the opportunity of enjoying the great outdoors is available to everyone. The Lake District Calvert Trust supports people with disabilities to enjoy the environment that I appreciate every day through outdoor adventure.

They are a great cause and more than worthy of me hauling myself off the sofa to take on a half marathon.

Wish me luck, I may need it.

About the charity

The Lake District Calvert Trust

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RCN 270923

www.calvertlakes.org.uk

The Lake District Calvert Trust provides residential outdoor activity courses for people of all ages with physical, sensory, learning, behavioural and/or mental disabilities. Its mission is to challenge disability through outdoor adventure. Pioneering equipment adaptations, and intensive, instructor-led activity programmes (that include climbing, abseiling, canoeing, sailing, horse/trap driving, archery, orienteering and paragliding), provide an environment whose aims are to teach, challenge, motivate, engender confidence in ability, promote independence, and foster integration. All instructors are highly trained and specialist qualified, and the facilities are specially adapted and fully accessible to all. The Lake District Calvert Trust provides a unique and life-changing experience for those with disabilities, who are encouraged to believe that it’s what you CAN do that counts.