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Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities – September 2023

Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for September 23. This page will be updated regularly, so we are delighted you have landed here today and hope that you will keep coming back for updates during the month. To catch up on our News, Events & Opportunities from August 2023, click […]

Last chance for environmental support

Local voluntary and community organisations are invited to apply to Become Green Together: a programme designed to give you practical, accessible guidance on how to make your workplace environmentally sustainable. It’s vital that the VCSE sector becomes more environmentally sustainable, to meet our responsibility to support and protect disadvantaged communities who will face the worst […]

Building Better Opportunities – My Future reports

The Building Better Opportunities (BBO – My Future) project was funded through the European Social Fund (ESF) and The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF), and delivered as a partnership, led by Cumbria CVS alongside three local delivery partners: Women’s Community Matters, Cumbria Addictions: Advice and Solutions (CADAS) and Right 2 Work (R2W Oaklea Trust). The […]

Refugee hotel residents discuss mental health

As part of our Community Connectors project, as well as Cumbria Development Education Centre (CDEC)’s pilot project for ‘Connecting Communities – People Enabling Change’, a team of voluntary sector groups recently put on an event to bring 15 women residents of Carlisle’s refugee hotel together to discuss mental health. Our Area Engagement Worker, Kate Rees, […]

Environmental support for voluntary and community organisations

Cumbria CVS has partnered with VONNE to deliver support to voluntary and community organisations in Cumbria wanting to improve their environmental credentials. Cumbria is planning to become Net Zero by 2037. With this ambitious target, we’ll be leading the UK in sustainability and kick-starting a greener and fairer future. The voluntary sector is perfectly placed […]

Pottering and Nattering positive for mental health

Potter and Natter, led by Paul Forsyth for the Step Forward into Volunteering and Employment service, is going well – light gardening at our Carlisle office to inspire and initiate a positive impact on wellbeing and mental health. Creating a safe space for conversations is the aspiration. The atmosphere is warm, friendly and productive… conversations […]

Mental Health conversations at Social Prescribing festival

Shelley and Sam, from the Step Forward into Volunteering and Employment service, recently attended the Social Prescribing Health and Wellbeing Community Festival at Whitehaven Rugby Ground. The day was fun-packed and family orientated, with Health and Wellbeing elegantly presented alongside fun. This meant the conversations around wellbeing and Mental Health could happen very naturally and […]