Shelley and Sam, from the Step Forward into Volunteering and Employment service, recently attended the Social Prescribing Health and Wellbeing Community Festival at Whitehaven Rugby Ground. The day was fun-packed and family orientated, with Health and Wellbeing elegantly presented alongside fun. This meant the conversations around wellbeing and Mental Health could happen very naturally and […]
We are supporting local/regional funders to review potential barriers that local groups face when accessing funding to see whether any changes can be made to help address these barriers. To do this, we need your help and so would be very grateful if you could please take 5 minutes to complete this survey by Friday […]
An award of £58k will help voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations in the former West Allerdale footprint to become more sustainable and resilient. The award will pay for a new Development Officer for the year, with the role providing support to organisations to help them develop and deliver quality services, access funding to […]
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 […]
