A HOUSING scheme in Windermere is celebrating the efforts of its gardening team following success in this year’s Cumbria In Bloom competition.
The Gatesbield Quaker Housing Association sits in two acres of woodland gardens close to the centre of Windermere.
The original house and garden was left to the Religion Society of Friends by the late Stanley and Emily Davies just over 40 years ago.
The land was left so it could be developed into accommodation for for ‘elderly friends and others in need of such accommodation’.
The first flats were completed in 1982, Now there are 22 flats set on the grounds and the scheme is open to all older people with or without a Quaker connection.
The gardens were highlighted this year when they won the Cumbria In Bloom Special Award for Woodland Copse an received an outstanding reward in the category ‘It’s your neighbourhood’.
On winning the award, Joyce Hawthorn, Chair of Gatesbield Trustees, said: “We are enormously proud to have had this recognition of the work done by our gardening team, made up almost entirely of…