WINDERMERE Outdoor Adventure Centre can now provide more opportunities for local people to access water sport’s courses and training thanks to a new wooden cabin.

Located at the Millerground site and funded through a £10,000 Locally Important Projects grant from South Lakeland District Council (SLDC), the cabin provides an additional teaching space and a meeting area for school and community groups.

It will also operate as a pop-up café during the school holidays for visitors to the lakeside park.

The existing facilities are managed by GLL, the UK’s largest leisure social enterprise, under its ‘Better’ brand, on behalf of SLDC.

Derek Jones is the GLL South Lakeland Partnership Manager. He said: “This has been a great project for GLL to be involved with and has seen staff giving up their own time to help with preparing the site, ready for the cabin’s arrival.

"Having this additional space for training and the opportunity to offer a catering service to passing tourists, will encourage many more people to the centre and we should have a busy summer ahead of us!"