Welcome to Focus on Funding – your monthly resource to keep you abreast of current and new funding opportunities, and the latest funding news and events. As well as Focus on Funding, you can access our support, including dedicated funding assistance, identifying funding sources, offering advice on strong applications, application reviews, communication with funders, application development […]
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 the week. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 27/02/26 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]
Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for February 2026. 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 […]
Welcome back to Cumbria CVS Green! In our twenty-fourth blog post, Emily Wilson, South Lakes and Furness Development Officer, shares a round-up of her Ørsted funded environmental work over the last year, celebrating the real difference made by groups who embraced sustainability at their own pace, in their own way. If you have any suggestions […]
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 the week. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 19/02/26 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]
Thank you to everyone who took part in our Volunteering for Health project research from October to December last year on the state of volunteering in Cumbria. It was a really valuable piece of work and we were really pleased that so many people engaged with us and gave their views. 148 volunteers and 80 […]
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 the week. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 12/02/26 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]
People in Kendal are being asked what they’re “bothered about” – and what could be done to address these issues. Give a Day to Kendal 2026 aims to bring together the people with a passion for making a change with the volunteers who could get involved to make that difference. It might be to tidy […]
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 the week. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 05/02/26 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]
Are grants making a comeback? Those of us who’ve been around the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector for a while will remember a time when most of our funding came from grants… before the era of encouraging VCFSE organisations to bid for public sector contracts became all the rage! Contracts work well […]
