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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 the animals, how they socialise with each other, and are cared for in their environment. One participants stated “I enjoyed the activity very much and meeting new people”. Another advised that “Trying new things is okay and the activity has improved my confidence”.

We recently hosted a Trustee Network bringing together 25 trustees from across Cumbria.

The aim of the network is to offer peer support between trustees and share best practice, ideas, challenges and to of course network! The topic for the recent meeting was Recruiting Trustees.

Judith Smale highlighted some of the basic principles of using the Trustee Recruitment Cycle, which are:

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, what the volunteering opportunity is, what days and times you need volunteers and the geographical location to judiths@cumbriacvs.org.uk

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Video: Why even the smallest charity needs to be cyber secure

This video from Charity Digital explores how all charities can look after their cyber security, whatever their size – and why they should.

A message from the National Lottery Community Fund:

Let’s talk

Join us for a community conversation to help shape the future of the National Lottery Community Fund on July 5th 1.00pm till 3.00pm via Teams.

Now is the time for a conversation about how The National Lottery Community Fund can best support UK communities to thrive. As part of our commitment to putting communities first we’re renewing our UK-wide strategy – and we want you to get involved.

An award of nearly £300k of funding will support volunteer “Community Connectors” from local organisations throughout Cumbria to improve engagement between the third sector, public sector, and key stakeholders and funders.

The money, from The National Lottery Community Fund’s Reaching Communities fund, has been awarded to us to run the new project.

A Cumbrian partnership is highlighting that families arriving from Ukraine, and refugees from other countries, who provide unpaid care for others can receive support.

Cumbria’s Unpaid Carers Partnership, made up of NHS, Social Care and a wide range of third sector Carers Organisations, is highlighting the availability of support as part of Carers Week, which runs from 7-12 June, 2022.

A project which supports people who face multiple and complex barriers to move towards employment has changed its name as part of a major rebranding exercise to help reach more potential participants.

My Future is the new name of what was formerly the Building Better Opportunities Getting Cumbria to Work (BBO GCtW) project.

A new logo and promotional material have been created and a new website with content which clearly spells out how people can benefit from the project has been launched.