Documenting the campaigns to keep open Grisedale Croft and to secure the future of community healthcare on Alston Moor.
Updates on the campaign to keep open Grisedale Croft, the wider future of community health on Alston Moor, and the work of Alston Moor Parish Council on both.
The day after Andy Burnham took office, we wrote to him on behalf of the Parish Council, offering Alston Moor as a national test site. The day after that, a further letter went to the new Health Secretary, Yvette Cooper — and Markus Campbell-Savours MP has been asked to raise the case in Parliament.
Read more →The NHS has disclosed the documents behind the 2017–18 settlement, confirming in its own words the commitment to provide step-down beds at Grisedale Croft. This page gathers the Working Group's correspondence with the Council, including the letters of 22 May, 11 June and 17 July 2026.
Read more →The future of Grisedale Croft matters to every household on Alston Moor, and this is the moment to show it.
Read more →Westmorland and Furness Council (WFC) has extended its consultation on the future of Grisedale Croft Care Home by two weeks, to 19 August, and has corrected the information it gave the public.
Read more →We have brought the case for keeping Grisedale Croft open into one place — the documents the NHS and Cumberland Council have now disclosed, and the Working Group's letters to the Council.
Read more →Freedom of information responses obtained by the Grisedale Croft Working Group confirm the home's role as NHS-funded step-down provision for Alston Moor — and reveal why those beds have stood largely unused.
Read more →We are pleased to share that Westmorland and Furness Council (WFC) has confirmed to Alston Moor Parish Council that, after listening to the feedback from its drop-in sessions, it will hold a public meeting on the future of Grisedale Croft Care Home in Alston.
Read more →A packed drop-in, a clear no, and officers who would not address the room together — here's what happened at Grisedale Croft, and how to add your voice.
Read more →Alston Moor Parish Council — Grisedale Croft Working Group, 14 May 2026 Westmorland and Furness Council has today published its consultation on the future of Grisedale Croft Care Home.
Read more →Many of you have been asking when the formal consultation on the future of Grisedale Croft will open. Here is what we know so far.
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