The Clubs History

The Lakeland and District Cat Club was founded in October of 1992, by a group of people interested in the welfare, showing & breeding of pedigree & household pets.
The founders Joy & Ron Forrest guided the club in its early years with the following original club members:-
Sheila Mackereth, Ian & Cath Mckenna, Angel Orvis, Chris Troughton & Linda Troughton.
Sadly Ron passed away in 1997 and is sadly missed by many.
Joy is still a member and still keeps an interest in the activities of the club.
Our first show was a household pet show at Kendal Rugby Club. It was held on the 18th of June 1994.
The show manager was Mr A Cooksey, and it was a huge success. Many thanks Alan. :)
In 1995 the club hit a brick wall, as affiliation to the GCCF was becoming time consuming, however, after fresh input from a revitalised committee, the club was granted affiliation to the GCCF in 1997.
We were now positioned to go for its goal.
Mr Ed Irving & Mr Mike Kavanagh agreed to fund-raise to support loss-running exemption & sanction shows.
In 1998 Mrs Pat Parrish was asked to be the club's show manager and to guide & train others in this role.
Three exemption shows at Kendal Rugby Club gave the club an excellent rapport with the exhibitors.
In the Year 2000 the club gained sanction show status. We had to move to a bigger place, Carnforth High School. The feed back from the exhibitors was very impressive.

We had our first championship show in 2004 and all thanks to Pat & Mike, Ed & Mike and of course the management team for a very successful day.

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IS OPEN TO ALL CAT LOVERS.