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Calling all lovers of the Lake District. Get a gorgeous calendar of the Lake District & push back against the UK’s biggest development EVER.
Calling all lovers of the Lake District!
Get your beautiful calendar of the Lake District and support the push back against the UK's biggest industrial development EVER.
All proceeds will go to a campaign to protect the Lake District Coast from being used to dump tonnes of higher-level nuclear waste for the next 200 years.
You can help …. and own this beautiful calendar too!
Remember to scroll down on the Calendar Reward to click on ‘claim your reward’ Anyone donating £14 or over will receive a calendar if our Crowdfunder is successful.
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The Lake District needs your help, urgently!
Its coastal areas of Millom / Haverigg and Gosforth are under threat, due to plans for a massive nuclear waste dump, also known as a “Geological Disposal Facility”.
The government’s proposal is for a 50 km2 mine works, 1000 metres deep, so that old and new nuclear wastes can be buried and abandoned over the next 200 years.
That radioactive waste will be super-hot and potentially unstable, due to hydrogeological forces from the complex Lake District geology (including coal deposits under the planned area!) The science isn’t settled, despite reassurances, and top geologists have repeatedly questioned the plans.
What can you do?
Everyone knows that the Lake District is beautiful, but these coastal areas which include some legacy industrial sites are often undersung. Just outside the National Park, they are very much still the Lake District of Beatrix Potter and John Ruskin and deserve to be cherished.
We’d like to show the world the intense and often wild and desolate beauty of the Lakeland coastal fringe, such as the views seen from the summits of Scafell and Coniston Old Man, looking towards the Irish Sea. Some of the most famous Lakeland mountains stand over the coastal plain, and it is these—and their water pressure—that increase the danger of the government’s proposals for nuclear waste burial.
More photos of our stunning landscapes and their flora and fauna can be seen on our facebook page which you are invited to join : Our Our Lovely Lake District in Photos: 2027 Calendar for L.A.N.D. https://www.facebook.com/groups/997384242883523
Pledging to buy a calendar will not only give you a year long reminder of our beautiful Lake District but will help in the most important campaign the Lake District has ever known - the push back against the biggest development EVER in the UK.
The Photographers (more to be included)
January: Sunset from Scafell Pike by Mike Pearce
February: Sandy Gap, Walney by David Haley
March: Hare near the Beach, Beckermet by Guy Newbold
April: Bassenthwaite from Dodd Wood by David Hatton
May: “Fiddlehead” by Sakina Murdock
June: Singing Wren by Garry Dawson
Barn Owl by Tarquin Pentecast
July: Ponsonby Tarn, Gosforth by Kevin Beynon
August: St Bees by Andrea Pentecost
September: Solway Sunset by Alison Denwood
October: Near Ulpha by Lawrence Freiesleben
November: Bowness Aurora by Rebecca Bennett
December: Morning mist over Wastwater by Catherine Bezzant
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 16th July 2026 at 3:07pm