Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities – July 2025
July 9, 2025
Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for July ’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:
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.
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.
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
Event Details
Event Distance
Total Ascent
Parking
Toilets
Pre-Event Zoom Briefing
Post-Event Zoom Briefing
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.
