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Trustee Focus – August 2022: How to promote your vacancies

Trustee Recruitment for Organisations Here are some ideas on how you can promote your trustee vacancies: Trustees Unlimited Free Foundation level service for NCVO members (membership is from free). Register with Trustees Unlimited, one of the UK’s leading trustee and board recruitment agencies, to advertise your trustee vacancy. Trustees Unlimited specialise in finding the right […]

Tech Talk – August 2022

Check out our curated roundup of information and advice on all things digital. If you’ve seen something you think we should be sharing, let us know! Email us: info@cumbriacvs.org.uk   Three ways to improve your fundraising Charity Digital explores ways that charities can improve their fundraising, from collecting better data to building lifelong connections with […]

Care and Community – supporting refugees in Cumbria

The end of June marked Refugee Week, although it feels that the conversations around how we support refugees is an all year round one. The theme of this year’s week was around ‘healing’ with people and organisations coming together to celebrate care, community and new beginnings. Third Sector organisations have always come together around the […]

A confidence-boosting alpaca experience

My Future participants attended an organised Alpaca and Llama Experience recently as part of a programme of activities. This was a confidence boosting activity for the participants, who had the opportunity to meet and greet alpacas, feed them, and go on an alpaca and llama trek. Project participants said that they thoroughly enjoyed learning about […]

Volunteering opportunities on BBC Radio Cumbria

Every Thursday and Friday lunchtime Judith Smale, our Volunteering Manager, will be on BBC Radio Cumbria promoting volunteering opportunities across the county. This will be a weekly slot promoting organisations that need volunteers. If you would like Judith to promote your opportunity please email a short paragraph including details of the name of your organisation, […]