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The Lake District is perhaps Britain’s best-loved landscape. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site – a place worth protecting. But erosion from people, coupled with severe weather events and climate change, is causing ugly scars and environmental damage in the fragile mountains. Fix the Fells tackles this erosion problem by repairing and maintaining 344 upland paths, covering 410 miles (661 km), helping to keep the Lake District a special place for us and for future generations.
Four teams of highly skilled National Trust rangers work on the fells in all weathers. The rangers are highly skilled and lead teams building sustainable paths and recreating a natural landscape.
Volunteers are a key part of Fix the Fells. Fix the Fells has around 100 volunteers who come from Cumbria and beyond, with one thing in common; they all love the Lake District fells!
Since 2003 the Fix the Fells partnership has provided the critical mass to fund and carry out hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of work to improve access and reduce erosion. As well as directly improving the physical fabric of the paths, the work does an important heritage job; allowing people to follow historical pathways, trodden the same way for generations. And by keeping people to those paths, it helps secure the ecological fabric of the fells too - protecting vulnerable and slow-growing mountain-top habitats.
Volunteers are a key part of Fix the Fells. We have around 100 volunteers who come from Cumbria and beyond, with one thing in common; they all love the Lake District fells!
