Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for July 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. Lots of the News, Events and Opportunities information will also be appearing in […]
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Mental Health is the human experience that binds us all. We all have differing presentations, manifestations and relationships with our mental health. One size does not fit all! Mental health can wax and wane, fluctuate and respond differently to life events for different people. Mental Health is very real and manageable for many, but debilitating, […]
Events, training, charity news, surveys, research, feedback, reports, services and much more – in one handy place! This page will be updated with new information as we receive it during June. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 25/07/23 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You can view last month’s Useful Information […]
It was wonderful to get our staff team together yesterday to celebrate four amazing colleagues who have been with us (and the CVSs that merged to become Cumbria CVS) for 20 years! (L-R) Ali Phillips, Bridget Johns, Judith Smale and Carolyn Otley – Huge thanks for all you have done, and continue to do, to […]
Have you ever wondered how many voluntary and community sector organisations there are in Cumbria? How many staff they employ, and how many people volunteer with them? What they’re worth to Cumbria’s economy? Or what they’re thinking about the future? Well, if you have, we now have many of the answers! Professor Tony Chapman from […]
A group of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations across the North East and North Cumbria have been successfully selected to receive funding to help encourage young people, their families, and communities from a diversity of backgrounds to participate in mental health research. Following a successful joint bid, the North East and North Cumbria […]
This week it’s National Volunteers’ Week and a fantastic opportunity to raise the profile of volunteering in Cumbria, say thank you to volunteers, and to recruit new ones. Volunteers Week takes place 1-7 June every year. It’s a chance to recognise the contribution volunteers make to our communities and, using the theme for this year, […]
A project, which supports those facing multiple and complex barriers, has helped over 500 people across Barrow and South Lakeland gain employment, access training and search for jobs. The Building Better Opportunities My Future project, which started in 2017 to support people aged 18 years and over move towards and into employment, is funded by […]
Events, training, charity news, surveys, research, feedback, reports, services and much more – in one handy place! This page will be updated with new information as we receive it during June. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 23/06/23 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You can view last month’s Useful Information […]
Community Connectors, Connecting Communities, Connected Communities… Different projects, from different third sector organisations but with one shared idea: that we’re all stronger together. This is a year of huge changes. And opportunities. Opportunities to effect change in partnership with the communities and community groups we work alongside, to support those under-represented communities – whether they’re […]
