Meet the committee

Chair: Roger Atkinson
Roger has a wide interest and experience in the outdoors, from being a past leader of Kendal Mountain Rescue, to competitive fell running. He now mainly focuses on downhill skiing, walking, and trekking, with recent trips with his wife Margaret to New Zealand and Venezuela.
Contact: fratkinson@hotmail.co.uk

Vice-Chairman: Bill Hogarth
Bill has many years of rock climbing and caving under his various belts, and is part of the Kendal climbing wall group within the club. He has also been known to produce a good chorus song when required.
Contact: 01539 728569

Secretary: Clare Fox
Clare’s main outdoor interest is walking in this country and abroad, and has recently finished ticking off her list of Lakeland hills, the ‘Wainwrights’. She also enjoys canoeing and a little climbing. She has recently discovered the fun of Via Ferrata and plans to do a lot more in the near future.
Contact: clarefox50@hotmail.com

Treasurer: Val Calder
Val works for a large outdoor retailer in Ambleside, and spends her outdoor time walking and climbing, the winter months seeing her on the Kendal climbing wall, and the summer months on the outcrops of south Cumbria and the bigger crags of the Lakes. She also enjoys tending to, and relaxing in, her wildlife friendly garden. Val keeps a tight hold on the clubs purse strings, and is one reason for the healthy financial state of the club. Contact: 01539 727109

High House Booking Secretary: Hugh Taylor
Hugh is the person to contact should you wish to book our bunk house in Borrowdale – High House – and the person to contact regarding this web site. His main interest in the outdoors is walking and trekking, and recent trips have included the Walkers Haute Route, Kilimanjaro, Concordia in Pakistan, and the GR20 in Corsica. He mangaes his partners ceramics business - Angie Mitchell Ceramics - and when he’s not doing any of that, he likes to play and sing folk music. He is usually to be found playing and singing in the music session in the Lamplighter Bar in Windermere most Wednesday nights, or the Riflemans music session in Kendal on Thursday nights, and is the contact for the English Country Dance Band ‘Tumbling Tom’. Contact: jhugh.taylor@btinternet.com

Social Secretary: Peter Goff
Peter has a life time of experience in the outdoors from the 60s onwards, walking and climbing throughout the British Isles He is a great inspiration to younger or less experienced climbers, and is the main contact for the summer ‘climbing for all’ sessions. He is also an expert on flowers and trees, and often organises local walks searching for rare orchids. Contact: 01524 736990
Newsletter Editor: Mick Fox
Mick has a wide interest and experience in the outdoors, including fell running, mountaineering, rock climbing, sailing, canoeing and caving. He is a contact person for climbing each Thursday evening. Recent travels have taken him to the mountains of New Zealand, India, South Africa, Europe, Mexico and the USA and his summer isn’t complete without a trip to the Alps. He enjoys writing and he edits the quarterly club newsletter, The Fellfarer, now in its fourteenth year. An architect by profession, he enjoys being involved in most improvements at our bunkhouse High House.
See http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/profile.php?id=35841
Contact: michaelfox50@hotmail.com

Member: Kevin Ford
Kevin joined the committee in 2007 and used to be its youngest member. He first discovered the Lakeland fells around twenty years ago after getting a free voucher from Sketchley dry-cleaners. He then discovered Scotland after building a car. Apparently the best way to test its reliability was to drive it from Essex to Wick, across the top of Scotland, and back to Essex. He and the car did it without either breaking down.
After nearly moving to Australia (his wife used to live there) he opted for Cumbria and now enjoys walking, scrambling, easy climbing (including Kendal climbing wall) and winter mountaineering in both Cumbria and Scotland. Other interests include photography, digital imaging and too much d-i-y.
Contact: 01539 734293

Member: Walter (Tony) Walshaw
Correctly named Tony, he is known as Walter within the club (don’t ask). He has a deep interest and knowledge in local industrial archaeology and country matters, and is an enthusiastic paddler having recently built his own canoe. Contact: 015395 52491

Member: Mark Walsh
Mark lives in Cheshire, but escapes to the Lakes as often has he can. He loves to be out and about and can’t think of anything better than a day on the fells. Lately he has been led astray by other club members and now finds himself struggling up crags attached to a rope.
Contact mark-walsh@tiscali.co.uk

Member: Jason Smallwood
Jason has been part of the club for 12 years and has recently taken over from Kevin Ford as the youngest member of the committee. He is also been part of the social Sub-Committee, initially set up to organise events for the 75th club anniversary year during 2009. Jason's main interest lies in climbing and enjoys nothing more than getting out onto Lakeland crags with wife and fellow Fellfarer Cheryl, although an annual sports climbing trip guarantees warmer and drier weather! Jason also enjoys walking and running on the fells and organising family events within the club. The club provides a much needed distraction to his job as a Business Consultant which takes him into the concrete jungles of London, Birmingham and Manchester for most of the working week.