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Cheers for Volunteers as video celebrates achievements during Covid-19

A video highlighting the vital work of volunteers in Cumbria during Covid is being launched on 11 March 2022 at 11am. The new ‘Volunteering in Cumbria’ video is being shared on the second anniversary of the formal declaration of a major incident in the county. Since then, organisations, partners, and volunteers from across Cumbria have […]

Barrow children’s posters to promote Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

Seventy children, from five secondary schools in the Barrow area, have created posters promoting “Healthy Body, Healthy Mind” as part of the Inspiring Barrow Kickstart Programme. The programme works with children who have been identified by schools to be in need of assistance in improving self-confidence, communication skills, self-efficacy, self-esteem and team work. Year 8 […]

Discussing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Cumbria CVS’s District Manager (North), Niall McNulty, takes a look at what we’re doing to embrace Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within our organisation, and shares some examples of good practice. We have been involved in some discussions in recent months about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (or as it is often abbreviated, ‘EDI’ – which in […]

Carlisle Community Groups Network plan gets overwhelming positive response

More than 50 representatives, from over 30 organisations, came together earlier this month to look at local interest for developing a community groups network across Carlisle. The idea of a network has been in discussions for a while and Cumbria CVS, working with Carlisle City Council and Cumbria County Council, invited community groups to meet […]

Advantage! heading up Winter Wellness Campaign

Advantage! Barrow Raiders Community Foundation have received funding from Cumbria CVS, via Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group, to deliver of a number of activities, events and services in relation to the Winter Wellness programme 2022. Two major events at The Matt Johnson Prestige Stadium will take place; On Sunday 20th March a Family Festival Day […]

Working with Asylum Seekers and Refugees – a survey for voluntary and community sector groups

The recent work to coordinate support for the asylum seekers arriving in Cumbria has revealed that this is a very new area of work for some local VCS organisations (and some organisations from other sectors, too), and that they’d like to be able to access training and support to build their skills. If this is […]