Happy holidays from the South… After soaring temperatures across the UK recently, we come to the end of another academic year. Our south-based project ‘Inspiring Barrow’ successfully completed their sixth year of delivering after-school provision, ending with a celebration event with school year 7 who participated in the project. It continues to be a huge success, […]
Become Green Together, a programme to help community organisations, charities and social enterprise organisations in Cumbria and the North East become more environmentally sustainable, has opened for applications and is keen for organisations from Cumbria to apply to take part. The initiative forms part of the Going Green Together campaign, delivered by a partnership of […]
Events, charity news, surveys, feedback, reports, services and much more – in one handy place! If you’ve seen something you think we should be sharing, let us know! Email us: info@cumbriacvs.org.uk We Move: Race Equality & Migrants Rights Summit – 2-4 September 2022 Organised by the Runnymede Trust, this in-person event in Leeds […]
In July, Cumbria CVS was invited to be part of the recruitment exercise for the new CEO for Westmorland with Furness (WwF) Shadow Authority. This was a really interesting exercise on several counts: getting to meet prospective candidates and discuss their approach to partnership working and future interaction with the VCFSE sector; being involved in […]
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Check out our curated roundup of information and advice on all things digital. If you’ve seen something you think we should be sharing, let us know! Email us: info@cumbriacvs.org.uk Three ways to improve your fundraising Charity Digital explores ways that charities can improve their fundraising, from collecting better data to building lifelong connections with […]
Cumbria CVS staff and trustees welcomed Alan McViety, High Sheriff of Cumbria, to our Carlisle office recently, to talk about our work and how we can collaborate to support the sector. Alan’s key focus for his year as High Sheriff is to support “Youth Opportunities”. After a tour of the building and lunch, Alan received […]
The end of June marked Refugee Week, although it feels that the conversations around how we support refugees is an all year round one. The theme of this year’s week was around ‘healing’ with people and organisations coming together to celebrate care, community and new beginnings. Third Sector organisations have always come together around the […]
Events, charity news, surveys, feedback, reports, services and much more – in one handy place! If you’ve seen something you think we should be sharing, let us know! Email us: info@cumbriacvs.org.uk Inspiring Eden – Jobs Fair 1 July 2022 The Penrith Jobcentre team are seeking attendance from clients they are supporting but the […]
My Future participants attended an organised Alpaca and Llama Experience recently as part of a programme of activities. This was a confidence boosting activity for the participants, who had the opportunity to meet and greet alpacas, feed them, and go on an alpaca and llama trek. Project participants said that they thoroughly enjoyed learning about […]
