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Visiting High House - Post Covid
Members are able to use the hut as normal during periods that it is booked for felllfarer use with a few additional conditions. Large groups of members planning to visit High House should notify us so it can be shown on the booking calendar that the hut is busy and other members can choose whether or not to visit. Members and their guests may not visit High House if an external group has booked it.
Please read the booking conditions below - it is particularly important that you do not visit if you have tested positive or have any symptoms of suspected Covid 19
Notifying us that you plan to visit
Large groups - please email bookings.kff@gmail.com and let us know the dates you are planning to stay.
Booking Conditions
Members and their guests:
- Large groups of members planning to visit High House should notify us on bookings.kff@gmail.com so it can be shown on the booking calendar that the hut is busy and other members can choose whether or not to visit.
- Members and their guests may not visit High House if an external group has booked it.
External groups booking High House:
- It will be the responsibility of the group making the booking to ensure they act within any current legislation and members of the group understand any risks involved.
- External groups booking the hut will be expected to hold the contact details of all those staying at the hut for test and trace purposes.
All Visitors to High House
- Those staying in at High House must accept that there are risks inherent with their stay and no guarantees can be provided that it will be a Covid-19 free environment. Requests to stay at the hut denote acceptance of that risk.
- Anyone who has tested positive or has any symptoms of suspected Covid 19 should not use the hut.
- Anyone developing symptoms while at the hut or immediately after must contact the meet organiser (external bookings) and hut booking secretary or a committee member.
- Groups are encouraged to make their own decisions about managing the risk during their stay at High House and should consider how they want to manage ventilation, cleaning, social distancing etc.
- Hut users must accept that it is in continuous use and not cleaned between visits by a third party. Groups must clean, disinfect and air the hut at the end of their stay
High House - Information for Members
External Bookings / More Information
If you are a non member interested in booking High House, or want to find out more about facilities at High House, please go to http://highhouseborrowdale.co.uk/ or use the link below
Staying at High House - Information for Members
High House is a restored and converted 16th/17th century farmhouse situated near the hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale. It is reserved for Fellfarers and their guests at all Bank Holidays, and many other weekends and weeks throughout the year.
The History of High House
The history of High House as a building, and of its occupants - by Hugh Taylor
Oread Bunkhouses
We have reciprocal rights with Oread (and therefore access to their bunkhouses in Baslow in Derbyshire and Rhyd Ddu in Snowdonia
Staying at High House (The Hut)
- High house is reserved solely for Fellfarers and their guests at all Bank Holidays, and many other weekends and weeks throughout the year.
- Members may also stay in the members room when other clubs have booked High House (unless the club have paid for exclusive use).
- Information about availability is on the calendar page.
- Access to High House is via a key safe - the code is communicated to members by email when changed or can be obtained by contacting a member of committee.
- Children of members, when accompanied by a parent or by a responsible adult nominated by a parent, may also use High House free of charge.
- Each member may take up to 2 guests to High House, for which a charge is levied. This should be paid to any committee member, or sent to the Treasurer. Any child of 5 years of age or over, who is not the child of a member, is considered to be a guest and the full guest night fee is payable.
- If a member wishes to take more than 2 guests mid-week (Monday to Thursday nights inclusive), they may book High House on the same basis as an external group but for a discounted rate of approx 50%. The same rules apply as to external groups
