New challenges for the New Year

January is a time when we tend to think about how we're spending our time, and how we'd like to be spending it better.

If your new year's resolution was to spend a bit more time outdoors in this beautiful area, and maybe to help make a difference to a charity and to give something back, we might have an opportunity for you.

We're really excited about a new project that's just starting up. Over the next twelve months we'll be taking a pop-up visitor information tent to popular locations in the Borrowdale and Buttermere valleys and use it to talk to visitors.  We want to find out more about what they're doing on their day out and to gather feedback about how we could make their visitor experience better.

Meet people from all walks of life as a volunteer

So if you like finding out what makes people tick, you want to spend some time outside two of the most beautiful valleys in the Lake District, and you want to be part of a one-year project that will help shape the future direction of how we engage with visitors to the two valleys, why not contact us for an informal chat over a cuppa to find out more?

You can read more information here on the volunteering pages of the National Trust website, email northlakes@nationaltrust.org.uk contact us via Twitter @NTNorthLakes or telephone on 017687 74649 to speak to a real live human being!

2013 could be the year to be the change you want to see in the world...