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 November 2024, click […]
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: 06/12/24 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health […]
We’re delighted to be publishing our 2023-24 Annual Review. Covering the period from April 2023 to March 2024, it features reports on a huge range of activity across the year. Our Chief Executive, David Allen, says in his report that “There is a definite shift to Community Power happening and this can only augur well”, […]
Welcome back to Cumbria CVS Green! In our ninth blog post, Rachel Miller, This Is Us Volunteering Officer at Cumbria CVS, shares some ideas for how to have a sustainable Christmas, covering everything from wrapping paper, cards and trees to food, jumpers and… elves?! If you have any suggestions about what you’d like to see […]
The South Lakes Poverty Truth Commissioners did themselves proud at their second public event, Nothing Without Us, in Windermere on 14 October. About 85 people from as far afield as Morecambe, Barrow and Manchester, enjoyed an inspiring and engaging afternoon together at the Ladyholme Centre, hearing about the work of the PTC over the past […]
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 October2024, click here […]
Gareth Cavanagh, our Development Officer for Allerdale, is back with an update on support he’s been providing in the area, comfort-zone pushing public speaking, and events coming up: Work is continuing at pace on the Supporting Allerdale project. The role never fails to ask questions of me and push me out of my comfort zone – […]
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 November. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 29/11/24 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health and […]
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) are working closely with national government and ACEVO (the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations) to develop a Civil Society Covenant. The Covenant is a new agreement to improve the relationship between civil society and government. Following the development of a Voluntary Sector Manifesto earlier this year, […]
Employment and Volunteering Officer and Admin officer for Step Forward into Volunteering and Employment, Maria Bezuszko, shares her personal health story – from being told she wasn’t fit for work, to moving up to 26 hours a week: I’m ready to Step Forward and go it alone. I was told I was not fit for […]
