So here we are approaching the end of another Covid blighted year with as yet no real confidence of an end in sight. Rather than let that depress us further let’s look back on what we actually achieved in the past year in spite of so many unprecedented challenges.
We saw communities across Cumbria find new ways of working together, new ways of getting jobs done, new ways of communicating with each other and new ways of coping with restricted ways of living of a kind not experienced in most of our lifetimes. This was true of those many thousands who kept the county’s voluntary and community sectors alive, vibrant and functioning to meet peoples’ needs no matter what was thrown at them.
