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500 more fish have now been added to the lake at the Head Office site in Sturton by Stow. The fish consist of Crucian Carp, Mirror Carp and Common Carp. The lake will now welcome fishers to the annual Rick Paton Memorial Fishing Competition held on Sunday 12th September. This competition includes special prizes for […]

Up to 100 children a week are now connecting with nature on ‘Wild in the Woods’ courses at Gelder Groups 17 acre environmental park. Sessions cover skills such as den building, cooking on a campfire, mini raft building on our lake, bird watching, pond dipping, art and much, much more. For further information on ‘Wild […]

The 13th of September 2020 marked the fifth Annual Commemoration of Rick Paton. A capacity crowd of anglers, family and staff were in good spirits, even those clearly carrying Hangover Pain! Gavin, Andy and Simon were fishing the match with their children George, Harry and Alesha. Bacon and Sausage butties greeted the attendees and further […]

From Wednesday 13th May the UK Government permitted angling where strict social distancing measures can be maintained. This has led to a steady flow of anglers enjoying a few hours catching fish in the Gelder Lake. The lake is well stocked and many employees and friends of the company making use of the facility. We […]

During lockdown, we’ve noticed an uptake in visitors getting their daily exercise walking around our environmental park, which is open to the public. Many have expressed their appreciation and a few have even sent us photos for use on our community intranet page in line with our 2020 Vision of ‘Building Strong Communities’, which is […]

Gelder Group Community Vision launched in 2017 set out to ‘Build strong Communities’ has taken another big step towards that goal and is now working with Linkage College. Linkage is a Lincolnshire based learning disability charity which provides a range of services including a further education college, care, day services, and employment support to help […]

Even though the south wind howled and the rain lashed down; eight excitable men still turned out in high spirits, some had even come home from the pub early Saturday night ready for the big day! The usual banter ensued as I (Simon Blaydes) commented on the horizontal rain, Phil Middleton kindly reassured me that […]

Eight enthusiastic fishermen turned out to commemorate the annual Rick Paton Memorial Charity Match and help raise funds for The Brain Tumour Charity. All of the anglers prepared weeks in advance of the competition, with many using new tackle that was purchased for the special day. Dave Troop (Garage Workshop Foreman and defending champion) had […]

We have once again been successful in creating the right environment for the barn owl and kestrel population to thrive in our environmental park. This year we have recorded two barn owlets and six baby kestrels. All of the birds have now been ringed by licensed bird ringer, Steve Wain.

The misty start to the morning did nothing to dampen the spirits of the 13 fishers who entered the ‘What a Whopper! Charity fishing competition. The event was held at the Gelder Group’s Head Office lake on the 27th September and was in aid of The Brain Tumour Charity. The one acre lake is stocked with […]