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It's not too early to buy tickets to join us for Augill's seventh Christmas concert raising funds for a second year for The Lake District Calvert Trust.
Sunday 12 December 2010 from 7.30pm to 11pm. Tickets £20 to include mulled wine, hearty canapes and yummy puds.
Raising money has never been so much fun!
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Augill Castle owners Wendy & Simon Bennett have each been recognised for their contribution to tourism and the community. While Wendy features in a book celebrating some of the most inspiring women in Cumbria, Simon has been invited to join the North West's Commission for the Visitor Economy, helping to shape the future strategy of one of the region's biggest earning industries.
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Augill Castle has retained a gold award for the fourth year from the Cumbria Business Environment network for our efforts to green our business. Not always the most straightforward process.
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Augill was a shortlisted finalist for Cumbria Tourism's Sustainability Tourism award. Another feather in our environmental cap. The overall winner was Elder Grove guesthouse in Ambleside who may have clinched the prize by making their own marmalade!
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The Lake District is Britain's favourite holiday and short break destination. Voted as Britain's best destination in the British Travel Awards 2008, the lakes has cemented itself as the nation's favourite place to be. The Lake District boasts some of the country's finest country house hotels, top class restaurants and award winning pubs as well as a world class landscape. But Britain's foremost national park isn't sitting on its laurels and aims to be Britain's adventure capital.
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Augill Castle was nominated as Boutique or Individual Hotel of the Year 2009 in the British Travel Awards. The results were announced on November 5th at a glittering event in London. Unsurprisingly The Dorchester Hotel in London took the top prize but Augill made it into the top ten finalists. The British Travel Awards are the 'Oscars' of the travel industry.
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Augill Castle is again among the best Lake District hotels having re-secured its place in the Good Hotel Guide for 2010. The guide, widely regarded as the bible of the hotel industry contains a selection of the finest hotels in the Lakes and Yorkshire as well as from the rest of the country. The castle, a boutique hotel of the year nominee at this year's British Travel Awards, has been in the guide since 2003, barring one year when it was dropped due to lack of reports.
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The castle is proud to be able to sponsor and host a Lets Get Cooking cookery club in association with Warcop Church of England Primary School. The Let's Get Cooking initiative aims to help families to cook and eat better by encouraging children to cook. Supported by the Princes Trust amongst others, the intiative sits well alongside Augill Castle's existing and very popular children's cookery school, Little Augill Cooks launched in Spring 2008.
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Augill Castle's local town has been voted Britain's best village. The national award organised by Calor Gas is hotly contested each year and Kirkby Stephen came out on top in 2009 for it's unrivalled community spirit and the diversity of community activities and involvement. The small town, with a population of just 1500 certainly punches above its weight with major events such as the Classic Steam Rally each Easter and the Nine Standars Yomp in June (26 miles of gruelling fell running) attracting visitors from across Britain.
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There can be few better places to pop the question than a castle. But this year there has been something extra special in the air at Augill. As one of the most romantic of Lake District hotels, Augill has seen no less than eleven proposals this year, with three on the same day. Happily all resulted in the best of outcomes and at least one looks set to result in a wedding at the castle.
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The castle is now WiFi enabled. Guests can now access the internet at Augill. It doesn't work everywhere, but it does where it matters. A Victorian castle and the internet are not the happiest of bedfellows but work is progressing on some pretty nifty ways of extending the coverage.
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Augill Castle is launching a new venture: The Augill Academy of Food & Hospitality. In association with acclaimed Cumbrian chef and ex hotel inspector Michael Evans the castle will be offering cookery masterclasses and courses in how to set up, market or improve your accommodation business. The cookery classes are a much requested addition to our already successful Little Augill cooks children's cookery courses. The hospitality courses are aimed at owners or prospective owners of small hotels or bed & breakfasts and will cover everything from finding the right property to current legislation to how to market the business.
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Brides Magazine has voted Augill Castle one of the UKs 100 hottest wedding venues for a second year. The castle is already one of the Lake District's top wedding venues but Bride's endorsement puts it up with some of the leading British wedding venues.
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The Good Hotel Guide has awarded one of its coveted Cesar Awards to the Punchbowl Inn at Crossthwaite near Kendal in the heart of the Lake District. The Inn has been a renowned part of the Lake District for many years and this award crowns it as the best of an already impressive clutch of Lake District hotels and inns in this year's edition of the guide which includes Augill Castle.
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A popular Radio 2 personality says Augill Castle is her top family friendly hotel. The Steve Wright in the afternoon presenter and eco-champion Janey Lee Grace says she immediately relaxes when she walks through the front door of the award winning castle, knowing that her children are going to be happy, entertained and relaxed themselves. Janey first visited the family friendly castle in October 2008 to officially launch the castle's ever popular children's cookery school, Little Augill Cooks.
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The Lake Distirct is putting all its energies into becoming the Adventure Capital of Britain. The Lake District with it's fine hotels, restaurants and scenery has long been seen as a genteel place to stay or visit. But there is a very different, high octane side to the the Lakes. With everything from base jumping, abseiling and canyoning to kayaking, skydiving and mountaineering the Lakes has everything to offer for younger thrill seeking visitors. Augill Castle is working with several partners to put together packages for families with teenagers looking for some real adventure.
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The best Yorkshire and Lake District hotels are joining forces to offer visitors to the north of England a new way to seek out the best places to stay and eat. Staywithourfriends.com will be a collection of the finest individual, owner-operated hotels, inns and guest accommodation such as Augill Castle across the north of England all willing to recommend each other and work together to promote England's north as a top class destination.
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And finally... Maisie, the castle's six month old Cocker Spaniel has made a meal out of a brand new pair of Wendy's shoes. Anyone who knows Wendy's wardrobe will know that this in itself does not leave her short of footwear but nevertheless, her shoeless foot and Maisie's backside were briefly but firmly acquainted.
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