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Step Forward project update

Step Forward into Volunteering and Employment provides tailored support for people in North Cumbria who are facing challenges from Severe Mental Health Experiences (SMHE). It aims to address the barriers faced when it comes to accessing volunteering, work readiness training and work opportunities. Officially launched on 10 October 2022, we are a NHS integration funded […]

Annual Review 2021-2022 – Celebrating 15 years of Cumbria CVS

We’re delighted to be publishing our 2021-22 Annual Review. Covering the period from April 2021 to March 2022, it features reports on a huge range of activity across the year, and includes highlights from the first 15 years of Cumbria CVS as we celebrate our anniversary. Supporting our vision of a strong voluntary sector working […]

Become Green Together: the programme helping charities in Cumbria tackle the climate emergency

The extreme weather events and natural disasters of this year have made it clear that that climate change is a pressing crisis, and steps need to be taken in all parts of society to mitigate its impact. While the voluntary and community sector feels strongly about tackling the climate emergency – the communities we work […]

Facing a massive increase in demand

Sincere thanks to you all for your really positive feedback that we recently received on how much you are liking our ebulletin updates! Early survey feedback suggests that the key things you want from us include funding information, training and events, networking opportunities, volunteer support, trustee support. You also liked most of the information on […]

Useful Information – November 2022

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 November. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 24/11/22) You can view October’s Useful Information here to catch up on new information added during October ’22. […]