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Westmorland Family Achieve Fair Tax Accreditation
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23rd Jan 2024

Westmorland Family Achieve Fair Tax Accreditation

We are delighted to have secured our first Fair Tax Mark accreditation and to join the growing movement of responsible businesses who are proud to ‘say what they pay with pride’. The Fair Tax Mark is an independent accreditation, which recognises organisations that demonstrate they are paying the right amount of corporation tax in the...
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Westmorland Family introduces Changing Places facilities in all Motorway Services Areas.
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18th Jan 2024
Westmorland Family introduces Changing Places facilities in all Motorway Services Areas.
We’re delighted to announce the opening of two new Changing Places facilities at Tebay Services and Rheged. In January, we opened two new Changing Places facilities at Tebay Services Northbound and Rheged, with government funding and support from Westmorland and Furness Council and the former Eden District Council. Over 250,000 people rely on a Changing...
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The Marmalade Motorway is now open!
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9th Jan 2024
The Marmalade Motorway is now open!
Is winning the World Marmalade Awards your New Year’s resolution? Marmalade makers get ready, the 2024 Dalemain World Marmalade Awards are open for entry. Each year thousands of precious jars make their way by sea, land and air to Dalemain Mansion in Cumbria hoping to be dubbed the worlds best marmalade. The Dalemain World Marmalade...
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Cairn Lodge Services ‘leads the charge’ with the UK’s first public hydrogen-powered electric car charging points.
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20th Dec 2023
Cairn Lodge Services ‘leads the charge’ with the UK’s first public hydrogen-powered electric car charging points.
We’re proud to announce that at our Cairn Lodge Services, on the M74 in Lanarkshire, we have launched a cutting-edge electric vehicle (EV) charging facility powered by hydrogen. This marks the first-of-its-kind deployment of a hydrogen-powered generator connected to EV chargers at a UK service station to accelerate the rollout of EV charging infrastructure; and...
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Limited edition Milk Loaf
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20th Sep 2023
Limited edition Milk Loaf
Limited edition Milk Loaf with Fenugreek, created in partnership with our local community. Our second limited edition bakery product, created by four budding food entrepreneurs from Gloucester is now on sale in our Farmshops at Gloucester Services, thanks to a unique collaboration between Gloucester Services, Hobbs House Bakery and Gloucestershire Gateway Trust. The ‘Limited Edition’...
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Limited edition GEM scones
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3rd Nov 2022
Limited edition GEM scones
Limited edition Double Gloucester & apple scones, created in partnership with our local community. A brand-new bakery product created by six participants from the GEM Project is now on sale in our Farmshops, thanks to a unique collaboration between Gloucester Services, Hobbs House Bakery and Gloucestershire Gateway Trust. The ‘Limited Edition’ project course, funded by...
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A unique insight into Cumbrian farming
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7th Oct 2022
A unique insight into Cumbrian farming
Our family farm, some of our wonderful producers, and our farming friends, feature in a brand new exhibition offering a unique insight into the everyday lives, fears and hopes of 40 extraordinary farmers throughout Cumbria.
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Major new mental health and horticulture project at Tebay Services.
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16th Jun 2022
Major new mental health and horticulture project at Tebay Services.
A major new mental health and horticulture project to help people in Eden and North Cumbria is to open at Tebay Services on the M6. Kendal-based organic farm and mental health charity Growing Well will expand to a second site thanks to a unique partnership with Tebay Services owners the Westmorland Family, and National Lottery...
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Which? names Westmorland Family service stations the best in UK
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30th May 2022
Which? names Westmorland Family service stations the best in UK
Tebay Services and Gloucester Services are voted Best Motorway Services in the UK. Consumer magazine Which? has ranked Tebay Services on the M6 and Gloucester Services on the M5 as the best motorway services in the country. The services are owned and operated by Westmorland Family and they offer a uniquely different model from standard...
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Henri Matisse Headlines Rheged’s Cutting Edge Paper Exhibition
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24th May 2022

Henri Matisse Headlines Rheged’s Cutting Edge Paper Exhibition

On Friday 27 May, Rheged’s Gallery opens its very first Paper Art Exhibition - ‘Matisse and Contemporary Paper Artists Exhibition’ - the largest exhibition of its kind to come to Cumbria.
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