Welcome to Cumbria CVS

Cumbria CVS is a registered charity and membership organisation. We help community/voluntary/not-for-profit groups and organisations to develop and improve by providing training and services that can be 1:1 support, funding advice, bespoke training, or through our regular training courses. We help place volunteers, and work with groups that involve volunteers to follow best practice.

Focus on Funding

Our April Focus on Funding newsletter is here! Focus on Funding is our monthly publication to support local organisations and keep you abreast of current and new funding opportunities. Find it at the link below, along with a wealth of other info and support.

Volunteering For Health

We’re delighted to announce that we are now in the delivery phase of the Volunteering for Health Partnership for Lancashire and South Cumbria. The three-year Volunteering for Health programme is part of NHS England’s response to the NHS Volunteering Taskforce, which brought together health charities, volunteers, clinicians, civil servants and policy makers.

Participants on a Climate Fresk session stand round a table on which they have mapped out climate-themed cards, showing how they interlink

Cumbria CVS Green

Cumbria CVS Green blog No14 is here! This time we’ve got a double-header, as Cumbria CVS’ Communications Manager, Peter Grenville, and Third Sector Referral Coordinator, Danny Smith, discuss a thought-provoking ‘Climate Fresk’ session held recently. You’ll also find links to useful resources, information and news!

Volunteering portal training

Volunteering in Cumbria Portal – Training for Organisations, Weds 14 May. Our Portal is a powerful tool, enabling organisations to advertise their volunteer opportunities to a wide audience, reach potential applicants, & use a range of other features to strengthen volunteering.

easyfundraising webinar

If your community organisation needs additional funds, come along to our free online session find out how your organisation can receive free unrestricted funding via funding platform easyfundraising.  

Join our team

Join our team! We are recruiting a Volunteering for Health Strategic Lead (South Cumbria). You’ll develop a strategic approach to enable and embed health and social care volunteering for all volunteer-involving health & care organisations at a place-based level.

Furness celebration

A tea party celebration welcomed 100 beneficiaries and partners of the Furness For You project to Barrow Town Hall’s Banqueting Suite on Friday, 14th of March. The project’s ten partners hosted their beneficiaries and volunteers for afternoon tea with entertainment and guest speakers, including the Mayor of Barrow, Cllr Judith McEwan.

Free funding!

We’re working with easyfundraising to help the organisations in our network receive extra funding. Through easyfundraising everyday items bought from over 8,000 online retailers raises money. Over a year, just one person could raise £362 for their chosen good cause! Find out how to get your organisation involved.

Get on the list!

We have a range of email newsletters – receive the latest news, events & updates on: Funding; General sector info for your area; Volunteering; Our Action for Health & Mental Health Provider Forum networks; Trustee network; + more, Sign up for individual newsletters and manage your subscriptions to our mailings, all in one place!

Share your news!

We can help you share your latest news & events! If you’ve got something you want us to share, send it in and we’ll add it to our weekly Useful Information post, getting what you’re up to in front of the VCFSE sector across Cumbria.

Latest News

Meet our volunteering team

Many of you may have worked with our Volunteering Manager, Judith Smale, over the last 23 years.... Read More


More News