Open Charity Golf Day At Seascale Golf Club

Lady Captain Christine Fawcett and Captain Tom Oliver have chosen Hospice at Home as their main charity for the year. Seascale Member and Ceremonial Mayor of Whitehaven, Brian O’Kane also has Hospice at Home for his Charity and is kindly arranging the prizes for an Open Charity Golf Day at Seascale. The Captains are hoping […]

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Brampton Golf Club Hits The Mark With National Golf Award

• Archive
• 30th November 2017
• Cumbria Guide

Brampton Golf Club in Cumbria, which is backing the drive to grow the game, has won a national award from England Golf. Brampton Golf Club, a James Braid designed course established in 1909 and located in beautiful heathland countryside has just received the GolfMark award. GolfMark is an official seal of approval for clubs which […]

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The Workington Rugby Team Try-ing For More Women on the Pitch

• Archive
• 5th October 2017
• Cumbria Guide

It’s a women’s game for the West Cumbrian team tackling stereotypes in sport. Campaigns such as Sport England’s This Girl Can, have taken huge strides to encourage more women to take up sport. However, one west Cumbian women’s Rugby Union team are way ahead of the game. The Workington Zebra Finches began two years ago […]

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Ben Stokes Comes To Cockermouth

• Archive
• 3rd August 2017
• Cumbria Guide

By Joe Sanczuk Ben Stokes is the guest of honour as former England greats are set to appear at his home team Cockermouth on the 10th of August. All-rounder Stokes began his career with the Cumbrian’s and has gone on to represent his country at the highest level in all formats of the game as […]

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West Cumbria Sports Bulletin

• Sport
• 23rd January 2017
• Cumbria Guide

Workington Reds Workington Reds go into the last three months of the season with a reduced management team. Derek Townsley, who joined Reds two and a half years ago as assistant to Gavin Skelton has quit because of family commitments. Last season he led Reds to the play-off final alongside two former long-serving players, Dave […]

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Carlisle Olympian Back on Home Soil

• Archive
• 31st August 2016
• Benjamin Johnston

Team GB’s gold nosed plane has touched down to jubilant scenes as our Olympian’s have collected their greatest ever medal haul and once again won over the nation’s hearts. Niall Spence talked to our local Olympic hero Tom Farrell on his life within the sport and what it is like to be back on home […]

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Maryport Man’s Race to the Paralympics

• Archive
• 28th July 2016
• Cumbria Guide

Maryport Man’s Race to the Paralympics There will be more than 4,000 Paralympians’ competing in this year’s Paralympic Games, and one of those athletes could be Maryport man, Simon Lawson. The 33-year-old wheelchair athlete is hoping to pack his bags and travel almost 6,000 miles around the world in an epic journey to represent Britain […]

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Try Something Different

• Sport
• 12th May 2016
• Benjamin Johnston

The success of England’s Women’s team at the Rugby World cup in 2014 has helped inspire over 18,000 women and girls nationwide to lace up their boots to play the game every week. Ali Hipkin gave training a try with Carlisle Ladies Rugby Union team, The Carlisle Cougars, to see what it’s all about. Coming […]

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Powerchair Football Comes To Cumbria

• Sport
• 12th May 2016
• Benjamin Johnston

Wheelchair users may have once thought that playing a physical sport would have proven difficult. But, today tells a different story; with hundreds of clubs up and down the country now providing regular powerchair football coaching for young disabled people, there is no reason not to get involved. Carlisle United Powerchair Football Club officially kicked […]

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