Welcome
Most of the visitors to this website probably know what it is about. You may be one of the many people who gave days of your time to get the Footprint built, lending a hand, pitching in and learning new skills last year. You may have visited on an open event or attended a talk. You may be a volunteer or a member of National Trust staff or one of our contractors or someone else who has come into contact with the project wanting a look at the building now it is completed. Or you may have heard about the Footprint Project and just fancy a look at what we've been doing and what it now looks like.
Whatever your reason, welcome.
For anyone finding your way here who has no idea what we are about this is a photo gallery site for the National Trust’s Footprint Project. The Footprint is a low environmental impact building constructed in 2006 at St Catherine's near Windermere in the Lake District National Park. Again, welcome.
Those of us who have seen the Project come to pass know that sense of something special that the Footprint emits is in part rooted in the many different pairs of hands that have contributed to getting it built. It really, really is a beautiful, iconic building that sits comfortably in its site; a tribute to all the hard work, time, creativity, passion and future thinking that has seen it constructed, and a Project about which the National Trust can be verifiably proud. These pages now serve to tell the tale of how that was achieved.