Cumbria CVS Support Officer Shirley Murray, University of Lancashire’s Dr Suzanne Wilson, and Cumberland HDRC Project Officer Lianna Barrie come together to reflect on their time with the Community Co-Researcher team at the start of their research journeys.   Meet the Team behind the Training Lianna, Cumberland HDRC Project Officer: I joined the Cumberland HDRC […]

Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for October 2026. 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 […]

In this guest blog, Susan Prior, Chief Executive Officer at Triple A (All About Autism), gives us a ‘flourishing focussed’ look at Autism, and why its important to understand what empowers autistic individuals to thrive and be accepted as their authentic selves. Anyone who knows me well will roll their eyes if I mention lived-experience […]

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: 14/10/26 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]

‘The best place to start when helping people is (focusing on) what’s strong within them and their communities and not with what’s wrong.’ Cormac Russell, Sustainable Community Development.   In Mid Copeland there is much of ‘what’s strong’ to focus on and build upon. I’ve been doing quite a bit of work in Thornhill over […]