Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities – July 2025

Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for June ’25. 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.

To catch up on our News, Events & Opportunities from June 2025, click here

Lots of the News, Events and Opportunities information will also be appearing in our regular Health and Wellbeing Bulletin. This Bulletin is sent out to all current members of our two Networks: Action for Health and the Mental Health Provider Forum. If you have found this page useful why not join either or both Networks by following these links:

Action for Health

Mental Health Provider Forum

News – we will be using this as an opportunity to pick out particularly important/interesting articles from our most recent Bulletin and/or highlighting information that might be time sensitive.

Events – we will be using this as an opportunity to highlight events of interest to organisations interested in health and care issues including Network events. Most of these will be local Cumbria events but some maybe regional.

Opportunities – we will be using this to highlight health and care focused funding and project opportunities, representative roles and working groups you might want to get involved in and much more. These will focus on Cumbria but may also include regional opportunities.

If you’ve seen something you think we should be sharing, let us know! Email us:

Clare Edwards claree@cumbriacvs.org.uk

Holly Ferguson hollyf@cumbriacvs.org.uk

Sarah Penn sarah.penn@cumbriacvs.org.uk

NORTH CUMBRIA NHS area – Key updates from recent meeting of NENC VCSE Partnership Programme (our voice in NENC NHS system)

ome great information and updates about:

  • Great North Care Record
  • NEW NHS Integrated Care Board/ICS Blueprint plans following cuts
  • NEW Child & Health and Wellbeing Core20PLUS5 approach

Click here to read the updates

COUNTYWIDE – NEW report highlights how everyday conversations can be used to improve health outcomes. 

‘What are you talking about? – improving health outcomes through Making Every Contact Count

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has published a report which looks at how everyday conversations can be used to improve health outcomes.

It brings together the evaluations of these programmes with new insights, gathered through both focus groups and public polling, to clearly state the case for increased uptake of health and wellbeing training among staff outside the traditional health sector

Click here to read the report.

CUMBERLAND COUNCIL area- HDRC scoping review presentation event

Cumbria Action for Health & HDRC scoping review presentation

Cumberland Council’s Health Determinant Research Collaboration have been researching what interventions are known to work to alleviate the areas they have chosen to focus their work on:

  • Poverty
  • access to housing
  • pathways to employment
  • mental health
  • substance use
  • obesity
  • children cared for

This session is an opportunity to hear what they have found works from national research and as a springboard into collecting locally specific information including from third sector organisations.

Click here to book onto the event

CUMBERLAND COUNCIL area – Cumberland Council Mental Health Delivery Plan

Following the publication of the Cumberland Public Health Annual Report 2023-24 “‘What is normal anyway?’ De-medicalising Mental Health and Neurodiversity”, Cumberland Council are working with partners to implement a systemwide delivery plan to meet the recommendations set out within the report. One of the areas of recommendation focuses on Building Resilience within communities and ensuring services focus on identifying individual strengths and resources so that interventions support personal growth and well-being through strength-based approaches.

When
16th, July 2025 from 14:00 to 16:00
Location
Shaddongate Resource Centre
Cumbria CVS

We are keen to meet with providers and people working within the community to:

–  Map and understand service models operating to improve personal resilience and evidence of outcomes through strength-based approaches

– Discuss how to embed strength-based practice across operational teams, evidence best practice and outcomes that show improvement in quality of life.

Click here to book onto the event,

 

AMBLESDIE area – Ambleside Summer Wellbeing walk

A mental wellbeing walk with Mind Over Mountains. Your opportunity to spend an amazing day walking, talking and being listened to by our qualified wellbeing team, whilst taking in the scenic views of of the Langdale Valley, Loughrigg Tarn, Grasmere and Rydal Water.

You can expect to come away from the day with a huge sense of achievement, new friends, relaxed and revitalised – with helpful guidance and tools for going forward in day to day life.

Event Date

Event Time

Start at 9.30am – finish 3pm (approx)

Event Details

A beautiful walk from Ambleside to Loughrigg, with scenic views across the Langdale Valley, Loughrigg Tarn, Grasmere and Rydal Water. Explore this upland vista with his lowland water features – what the Lake District is famous for!

Event Distance

10.5km / 6 miles

Total Ascent

400 ft / 434m

Parking

Miller Bridge car park £9.40 all day.

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Toilets

Available at start point

Pre-Event Zoom Briefing

This usually takes place the Thursday before your walk at 6pm (look out for the zoom link which will be sent to you by email). It is a relaxed and informal opportunity to meet each other & the team. There will be an introductory coaching & mindfulness session, alongside a brief from our Walk Leaders, with an opportunity to ask any questions before the walk.

Post-Event Zoom Briefing

This usually takes place the Tuesday after your walk at 6pm (zoom link will be emailed to you) – Following our day in the hills, we will reflect on our achievements together, consider what has become clearer and focus on your next steps to move forward.

Click here for more information.

CUMBERLAND COUNCIL area – Cumberland HDRC looking for evidence, can you help?

We are pulling together as much evidence as we can find in relation to our seven research themes.

This might include: anonymised data, case studies, needs analyses, service plans, evaluations. Our seven research themes are wide and overlapping and include: poverty, housing, employment, mental health, substance use, and cared for children.

If you have anything that you think might be helpful, please drop us a line at HDRC@cumberland.gov.uk

WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS COUNCIL area – Council want to hear different voices & views on parking

This may be of interest to people with Blue Badges etc.

The council’s Community Conversation on parking services for our residents, businesses and visitors is underway, as they look to create a single service across Westmorland and Furness, bringing together the best of the different types of permits and payment methods that were operated by the four former councils in the area.

The Community Conversation is following our Community Power strategy to ensure everyone can have their say.

See more in this video.

You can join in the conversation hee.