Black History Month 2023 – Saluting Our Sisters

Black History Month celebrates the continued achievements and contributions of Black people to the UK, our local communities and around the world. Black History Month also focuses on a continued call to action to tackle racism, reclaim Black history, and ensure Black excellence is represented and celebrated all year round and not just in October. […]

Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities – September 2023

Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for September 23. 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 August 2023, click […]

Last chance for environmental support

Local voluntary and community organisations are invited to apply to Become Green Together: a programme designed to give you practical, accessible guidance on how to make your workplace environmentally sustainable. It’s vital that the VCSE sector becomes more environmentally sustainable, to meet our responsibility to support and protect disadvantaged communities who will face the worst […]

Building Better Opportunities – My Future reports

The Building Better Opportunities (BBO – My Future) project was funded through the European Social Fund (ESF) and The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF), and delivered as a partnership, led by Cumbria CVS alongside three local delivery partners: Women’s Community Matters, Cumbria Addictions: Advice and Solutions (CADAS) and Right 2 Work (R2W Oaklea Trust). The […]

Refugee hotel residents discuss mental health

As part of our Community Connectors project, as well as Cumbria Development Education Centre (CDEC)’s pilot project for ‘Connecting Communities – People Enabling Change’, a team of voluntary sector groups recently put on an event to bring 15 women residents of Carlisle’s refugee hotel together to discuss mental health. Our Area Engagement Worker, Kate Rees, […]