The calendar cash will go to the Fix the Fells project which repairs and maintains heavily used footpaths in the Lake District

A project to help repair Lakeland footpaths will get an £11,000 cash boost thanks to sales of calendars by the Wainwright Society.

The £3,700 proceeds from the society’s 2010 calendar will be trebled to more than £11,000 by funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The money will go to the Fix the Fells project, which maintains and repairs heavily used rights of way on the Lake District fells.

The Wainwright Society, aficionados of the works of the author and illustrator Alfred Wainwright, has produced the A3 calendar using photographs from members and Wainwright sketches. The cover features a picture by professional photographer Derry Brabbs, who worked on later publications by the Kendal-based author, and who is an honorary member of the society.

The Wainwright Society calendar

More than 850 copies of the calendar have been sold and a few remaining copies, signed by mountaineers Sir Chris Bonington and Doug Scott, are still available. Proceeds from the sale of these will go to help the Royal National Lifeboat Institution  and mountain rescue teams which helped in the Cumbrian floods of November last year.

Details of how to order the signed calendars are on the Wainwright Society website.