As you may be aware, NCVO has recently shared their updated Time Well Spent Research which focuses on volunteers and their experience. Here at Cumbria CVS, we are keen to gain feedback from your organisation and your volunteers to ensure we have your Voice for Volunteering here in Cumbria. Reflecting on the NCVO Time Well […]
Are you currently registered with us to promote your volunteering opportunities? We are starting to introduce a new Volunteering Opportunities database for Cumbria. Organisations can self-register their organisation and add different opportunities onto the database. You can also keep your opportunities up to date by simply logging into the system. This enables potential volunteers who […]
The appointment of a Development Officer will see us providing much-needed support to voluntary and local interest groups covering the area from Millom to Drigg, and out to Eskdale. Based in Millom, Beresford (Berry) Moyle Rosser will be assisting in grant applications, volunteer recruitment and retention, as well helping to identify potential Trustees and ensuring […]
Last week, I was honoured to be invited by the University of Cumbria to attend a graduation ceremony at Carlisle Cathedral. It was a wonderful celebration of the students’ achievements – not least given the extraordinary conditions that they dealt with throughout their studies. Vice-Chancellor Professor Julie Mennell gave an inspiring address – a central […]
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 August. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 25/08/23 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You can view last month’s Useful Information […]
Our Chief Executive, David Allen, met up with Tim Farron MP (Westmorland and Lonsdale) at his constituency office in Kendal recently (6 July). Tim had previously asked us to support the establishment of a new voluntary organisation for Kendal and to work with one of his constituents. This meeting was to update on progress, but […]
Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for July 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. Lots of the News, Events and Opportunities information will also be appearing in […]
Mental Health is the human experience that binds us all. We all have differing presentations, manifestations and relationships with our mental health. One size does not fit all! Mental health can wax and wane, fluctuate and respond differently to life events for different people. Mental Health is very real and manageable for many, but debilitating, […]
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 June. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 25/07/23 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You can view last month’s Useful Information […]
It was wonderful to get our staff team together yesterday to celebrate four amazing colleagues who have been with us (and the CVSs that merged to become Cumbria CVS) for 20 years! (L-R) Ali Phillips, Bridget Johns, Judith Smale and Carolyn Otley – Huge thanks for all you have done, and continue to do, to […]
