Bridget Johns, District Manager (Cumberland) gives an update on our Community Connectors project: In August 2022 we launched our Community Connectors project with the aim of connecting communities who seldom have their voices heard with decision-making that directly impacts them. This two-year project, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, is finishing on 31st October […]
Project Manager for Step Forward into Volunteering and Employment, Shelley Studholme, gives us an update on the programme’s activities during another busy month: We’ve been busy as Summer entered the beautiful Season of Autumn. We left the end of Summer high on the happiness of attending the wonderful Social Prescribing Wellbeing Festival at Whitehaven Rugby Club, […]
We warmly invite you to join us for our AGM, which will take place at Roundthorn Country House, Penrith, on Wednesday 27 November 2024. Informal networking session from 9.30am – 10.00am Cumbria CVS AGM 10.00am – 11.00am ‘Powered by Communities’ 11.00am – 3.00pm Powered by Communities We are curious to know what people really […]
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 October. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 30/10/24 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health and […]
We are excited to announce the launch of Furness For You – a free, comprehensive online neighbourhood support hub designed to support members of the community across the Furness area. Launching in early October 2024, this support hub will connect local people to vital services, activities and events all in one place. If people are […]
Welcome back to Cumbria CVS Green! In our seventh blog post Jim Bevis, Service Development Officer, talks us through some of the challenges of buying the oldest house in the street, and how being a DIY nerd has helped him tackle dodgy windows, damp, heating and plastering with an positive environmental impact. Read on for […]
In the wake of Community Power consultations with communities and the VSCFE sector, Westmorland and Furness Council has shared its strategic vision for community empowerment through the “Together We Are Powered by Communities” paper. This approach is anchored in three core themes: championing community strengths, fostering collaborative partnerships, and ensuring inclusive empowerment. As we delve […]
Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for September ’24. 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 2024, click […]
Our South Copeland Development Officer, Beresford Moyle Rosser, gives us an update on what’s he’s been up to as he begins year two, and why it’s important to have a plan for the next five years: The South Copeland Project has now entered it’s second year and it has proved to be as busy as […]
Cumbria CVS is sad to announce that after five years, our current Chief Executive David Allen has decided to retire, and will be leaving us at the end of this calendar year. David joined us from his role as CEO at the Faculty of Public Health in London just months before the Covid-19 pandemic struck […]
