THE Roald Dahl family fun day which took place at Kendal Museum recently, was held in support of the Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity.

It was celebrated on the day the author would have been 103 years old. The event was a great success, raising more than £100 for the charity. 
Many of the 180 visitors took part in a James and the Giant Peach inspired competition, which involved decorating bug houses, along with a salt dough Marvin, the Marvellous Crocodile (the charity’s mascot) magnets.

Proceeds from the competition were donated to the charity and all who took part were able to take their bug boxes and magnets home.

SPEAKER at the Kendal Rotary meeting was Sarah Williams, the Kendal BID manager who outlined the plans for Kendal Bid Limited Business Plan for 2019–2024. Kendal BID is run by the private sector and is a not for profit, limited company.

Since its inception in 2014 they have had many successes with its aim of creating a confident and competitive Kendal, a convenient and accessible Kendal and a clean, safe and attractive Kendal.

This culminated in the re-opening of a tourist information centre in Finkle Street and now they are looking forward to the next five years and they have formulated a business plan which can be seen on kendalbid.co.uk.  

WORLD Polio Day is on October 24. To mark this, it is hoped that the floodlight of Kendal Parish Church will be purple, as this is the colour of the dye used to mark children’s little fingers when they have been immunised. Also, Kendal Rotary Club will be collecting money at Booths, Kendal, on October 23 for End Polio Now. 

KENDAL Fellwalkers A group walked from Pendragon Castle in the Mallerstang valley.

They climbed to Little Fell and Wild Boar Fell then crossed boggy ground to reach Swarth Fell. After dropping down to the valley, they followed the Pennine Bridleway back to their starting point. The B group climbed from Elterwater to Lingmoor.

They followed the ridge over Side Pike but decided not to continue to Pike of Blisco. Instead, they returned by Blea Tarn and Little Langdale, visiting the spectacular waterfalls of Colwith Force and Skelwith Force on the way. The C group abandoned plans to make the long journey to Eskdale and joined the B group on Lingmoor before returning by Little Langdale and Slaters Bridge.