Tabletop Gaming Club in Kendal celebrates one year

The club is also known as Dice and Bolter. 

The club members meet up every week to play various board and role-playing games, with 'table top' being a catchall term for the types of activities they participate in. 

Two members of the club playing a board game

Warhammer and Dungeons of Dragons are the most recognisable games that they play, the latter of which has been popularised by the hit Netflix show Stranger Things.

The club is associated with Games Workshop in Kendal, which is where many of the figurines for the games come from.

The miniatures associated with the games are painted in detail

Ian Loxham, who runs the club, said: "The last year has been amazing. There were just four of us who started the club for ourselves. We have grown from 4 to 40 people. 

"Obviously it is about the board games but there is such a mix of people who come, it's a good chance to get out. 

"I think just having a space to meet like-minded people is great. There has never been another in this area." 

Tabletop Gaming Club has recently started a youth group and it plans to visit Warhammer World in Nottingham at some point in the future.

During September the club will offer anybody that comes to the club a raffle ticket to win merchandise associated with Warhammer or Dice and Bolter. 

The club has grown in size since it first started

It will also be running a best-painted competition for a miniature drawn for 40K, a role-playing game, or a skirmish/board game. The miniatures will be judged by a selection of committee members before the results are revealed on 29 September. 

It will be putting together a video documenting the club's first year, and what it is planning to do in the next year. 

To anybody that is thinking of joining, but is a novice at the games the club plays, Ian said: "Just come along, we welcome anybody, just give it a go. People can try that for one night."

The club meets every Thursday at Levens Village Hall from 6.00 pm until 9.00 pm.