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he Windermere Centre is a delightful Lakeland-stone house set on the edge of the village of Windermere in the Lake District. It is a place for everybody.
The Windermere Centre is everybody's home for training, sanctuary, conferences, retreats, healing, holidays, prayer whatever you need it to be because it's YOURS!
The centre plans an assortment of weekend and mid week courses and events throughout the year. Popular summer activity courses are Singles, Walk and Talk and Come and Sing, along with a new Family Break week for 2000. In the spring time there is a course on Patchwork and in September the ever popular Painting in Autumn. A special flower festival entitled Celebration Praise takes place in July.
The centre has comfortable single, twin and family bedded rooms, some en-suite, each with their own wash basin and tea/coffee making facilities. The single ground floor rooms are equipped for the less physically able. The Hannah Fund can provide grants to anyone with special needs so that nobody is ever prevented from coming. You do not need to be on a course to come, simply ring up and if there are vacant rooms then you can enjoy this charming house.
If you have never been, why not give it a go this year?
A residential centre in
Swaledale, North Yorkshire,
Keld is a tiny village at
the head of Swaledale, in magnificent country
A Wainwright in his
famous Walking Guides describes Keld and our chapel:
The Keld Centre is in the
heart of the village. It is a collection of
Keld Centre users
normally have access to the village hall which provides
The chapel which adjoins
the manse is the home of Keld United Reformed
The Keld Centre is a
place for do-it-yourself holidays. It
is used by
Houghton Chapel Retreat, in the west of Cambridgeshire, is an ideal place to get away from it all. The centre, which is overseen by the Eastern Synod of the URC, is available to any group for any length of time.
Activities include walking along the River Ouse into historic St Ives, or across the meadows to Hemmingford Grey. There is the old water-mill at Houghton itself, now owned by the National Trust, or you can just potter around the village itself.
The accommodation is arranged into bunk bedded rooms with numbers in each room from two to six, up to a total of thirty staying at one time. You can self-cater or visit one of the fine watering houses nearby.
Some of the uses that the Retreat could be put to include family gatherings wedding anniversaries, young peoples trips away, intense activity times such as 'rehearsing a play in a day', a plethora of themes on Christian issues, for quiet study intermingled with relaxing in convivial surroundings. We have adopted the verse from Matthew 11.28 'Come to me all who are weary and whose load is heavy, I will give you rest.' This sums up how we feel the tensions of modern life will just wash from you in the tranquil setting of the Retreat.
We look forward to seeing you one day
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