Our latest Volunteer Managers newsletter is out, packed with details of events and training across Cumbria! You’ll find details of Good Practice in Volunteer Management Training Sessions, our West Cumbria and Eden Volunteering Fairs, Trustee Recruitment Sessions and the next County Volunteer Managers Network meeting. There’s also news of First Aid Awareness Training for Volunteers, […]
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 the week. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 06/08/25 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]
Bananas, milk, washing powder, cereal AND a free donation for your organisation! All the leading supermarkets, including Tesco, Morrisons, ASDA, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Iceland, and Ocado will give free donations when you and other members of your network order online from them via easyfundraising, at no extra cost. In most cases, supermarkets offer a flat donation […]
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 the week. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 01/08/25 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]
Bridget Johns, Operations Manager at Cumbria CVS, reviews the new Civil Society Covenant, and how it might work with devolution in Cumbria: The Civil Society Covenant was launched by the Prime Minister on 17 July 2025. For me, it feels like a real opportunity to reset the relationship between government and civil society and show […]
After last month’s plea to fill in questionnaires and give us lots of lovely data about the local voluntary and community sector (*), this month I promised I’d write about some of the data that’s out there about different communities in Cumbria. In my experience, most voluntary and community sector groups get on and do […]
The Government has confirmed it believes the introduction of a mayoral authority for Cumbria would improve people’s economic, social and environmental wellbeing and reflect the identities and interests of local communities. It means Cumbria will be allowed to progress to the next stage of the devolution process. Westmorland and Furness and Cumberland Councils will now […]
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 the week. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 24/07/25 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]
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 the week. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 18/07/25 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]
Welcome back to Cumbria CVS Green! In our seventeenth blog post, we have something a bit different from colleague Rebecca Guy, Third Sector Referral Coordinator, who shares with us a poem inspired by a lunch break cycle ride to collect surplus supermarket food. If you have any suggestions about what you’d like to see in […]
