Cartmel College, University of Lancaster, UK was founded in 1968. It is named after the Cartmel

Cartmel

Cartmel is a village in Cumbria, England, situated north-west of Grange-over-Sands and close to the River Eea. Historically it was in Lancashire; boundary changes brought it into the newly created county of Cumbria in 1974, yet keeping it within the boundaries of the traditional County Palatine...

 peninsula of "Lancashire north of the sands"

Furness

Furness is a peninsula in south Cumbria, England. At its widest extent, it is considered to cover the whole of North Lonsdale, that part of the Lonsdale hundred that is an exclave of the historic county of Lancashire, lying to the north of Morecambe Bay....

 which was once known as The Land of Cartmel. The college buildings were originally sited at the north end of the university's Bailrigg campus

Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...

 and extended in 1969. In 2004, the college was relocated to Alexandra

Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy

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 Park, a new development in the southwest of the campus based around Barker House Farm.

Original College Buildings

Cartmel college residences were opened in 1968. The Cartmel building was designed by the Manchester based architect, Haydyn Smith. Smith designed the college in such a way as to expose it to as much natural light as possible. The college was also dominated by a number of large, multi-purpose grassed areas that were very popular during the warmer months. Extra residences were built in 1969 to cope with the expanding student population.

Relocation

In 2003 Cartmel’s College Syndicate decided to embrace the university’s offer to relocate the college down to south west campus with brand new entirely en-suite accommodation and new facilities and college offices. After some negotiation it was decided that Cartmel would take the refurbished Barker House Farm complex as the centre of their college. the farm houses the college offices, porters lodge, bar and Junior Common Room, with the accommodation built around it. Along with Lonsdale College

Lonsdale College

Lonsdale College is a constituent college of the University of Lancaster, UK. It was one of the two founding colleges, built when the university first opened in 1964. It is also one of the largest colleges on campus in terms of Junior Common Room membership, with over 1,200 JCR members...

, Cartmel is one of only two Lancaster colleges to boast entirely en-suite accommodation.

Names of Residence Blocks

The residence are all named after villages on the Cartmel peninsular:

• Bigland
• Braystones
  Braystones
  Braystones is a village in Cumbria, England.Braystones railway station is on the Cumbrian Coast Line.In 2009, it was approved by the British government as a site for a new nuclear power station...
  
  
• Broughton
• Cark
  Cark
  Cark is a village in Cumbria, England. It lies on the B5278 road to Haverthwaite and is ½ mile north of Flookburgh, 2 miles southwest of Cartmel and 3 miles west of Grange-over-Sands....
  
  
• Dalehead
• Flookburgh
  Flookburgh
  Flookburgh is an ancient village on the Cartmel peninsula in Cumbria, until 1974 part of Lancashire. Being close to Morecambe Bay, fishing plays a big part in village life. Cockle and shrimp fishermen still venture out onto the sands every day, nowadays using specially adapted tractors.Flookburgh...
  
  
• Grange
  Grange-over-Sands
  Grange-over-Sands is a town and civil parish by the sea – with a wide tidal range, hence the "sands" name – in Cumbria, England. Historically, Grange-over-Sands was part of the County of Lancashire until 1974, when Cumbria was created under Local Government re-organisation which absorbed the area...
  
  
• Haverthwaite
  Haverthwaite
  Haverthwaite is a small village and civil parish in the Furness region of Cumbria. It is also within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park. It is located several miles east of Ulverston and is near the southern end of Windermere...
  
  
• Holker
  Holker Hall
  Holker Hall is a country house with a celebrated garden situated on the Cartmel Peninsula, which was historically part of the county of Lancashire, but is now part of the county of Cumbria....
  
  
• Lindale
• Meathop
• Thirlmere
• Wastwater
• Windermere
• Ullswater

Governance

The College is established under the Statutes of the University. Internally, the key committees which run the College are College Council, College Management and College Syndicate. College Management is an informal committee of College Officers which meets every alternate week to keep abreast of day-to-day matters to do with the running of the college. College Council meetings alternate with College Management. College Council consists of College Officers and the JCR

JCR

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 executive and is, essentially, the body which concerns general policy of the college. College Syndicate meets much less often and consists of all SCR

SCR

SCR may refer to:In business:* Solvency Capital Requirement Solvency II.In associations, companies, institutions:* Smyrna Cassaba Railway an Ottoman railway* Senior Common Room of a higher education institution* South Central Railway in India...

 members and some JCR representatives. Its main responsibility is to decide matters of major policy affecting the College. The College is represented by the Principal on Senate, as is the JCR through various student representative bodies. College affairs come under a Pro Vice Chancellor of Colleges, who oversees the general conduct of the Colleges, including the appointment of College Officers, the setting of budgets and so on.

Symbols

The college colours are burgundy

Burgundy (color)

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 and grey

Grey

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 or officially, 'stone' and 'plonk.' The college emblem is the griffin

Griffin

The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle...

. The college pose is the ertz.

Facilities

Cartmel College can boast some of the best facilities on campus including 2 large projection screens, a large bar area, food court and a Junior Common Room which houses 2 English pool tables, 2 IT-Boxes, DJ Booth, Dart Board and a 40" Plasma Television complete with Nintendo Wii, DVD player, Freeview and Laptop connection. The whole Barker house complex also has wireless internet throughout.

Current Junior Common Room Executive

• President: Jasmine Blakemore

• Vice-President: Danny McGuire

• General Secretary: Matt Walker

• Education and Welfare Officers: Emily McIntyre and James Thornton

• Equality and Diversity Officers: Tara Coffin and Ian Jukes

• Social Secretaries: Joel Pullan and Chris Dunkley

• Sports Representatives: Owen Williams and Bre Caren

• Magazine Editor: Emily-Jayne Nicholls

• Publicity Officer: Jessica French

• Webmaster: Alex Negad

• Audio-Visual Technician: James Beedie

Past Junior Common Room Executive Presidents

• 2010 Mark Lord
• 2009 Robbie Pickles
• 2008 'Magic' Sam Fitton
• 2007 Diane Barrow
• 2006 Ed White
• 2005 Sooz Palmer
• 2004 Waqas Khan
• 2003 John Miller
• 2002 Liz Moules

Past Junior Common Executives

• 2010 - Mark Lord, Jess Horsfield, Jasmine Blakemore, Tom King, Holly Gunner, Danny McGuire, Rosie Spray, Alex Hockin, Jill Wonders, Chris Palmer, Bex Hamilton, Natalie Hook, Charlotte Dickinson, James Whittaker, James Davies
• 2009 - Robbie Pickles, Helen Thompson, Michael Benson, Tommy Ferry, Tom Mackrory, Kat Haylock, Jonny Casey, Rosie Spray, Mark Lord, Jen Stewart, Kimberly Irons, Jonny Smith, James Davies, Amy Loddington, Dom Stroud, Jess Horsfield, Mike Clarke, Tom Cage