This week is the last chance to join the Become Green Together programme. This opportunity is already helping a diverse range of over 80 voluntary, community, and social enterprises across the North East and Cumbria adapt to the climate crisis. These organisations are leading the way to make the VCSE sector greener, and to create […]
Keswick and Solway ICC – A REAL opportunity to work in a different way At our first Keswick & Solway leadership group meeting in June, we agreed that as part of being more inclusive we would rotate the chairing of the meetings and I ‘volunteered’ to chair the next week. I was quite apprehensive and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 September. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 28/09/23 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You can view last month’s Useful Information […]
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, […]
Cumbria CVS has partnered with VONNE to deliver support to voluntary and community organisations in Cumbria wanting to improve their environmental credentials. Cumbria is planning to become Net Zero by 2037. With this ambitious target, we’ll be leading the UK in sustainability and kick-starting a greener and fairer future. The voluntary sector is perfectly placed […]
Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for August 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 July 2023, click […]
Potter and Natter, led by Paul Forsyth for the Step Forward into Volunteering and Employment service, is going well – light gardening at our Carlisle office to inspire and initiate a positive impact on wellbeing and mental health. Creating a safe space for conversations is the aspiration. The atmosphere is warm, friendly and productive… conversations […]
