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 […]
Membership of Cumbria CVS passed the 400 mark recently, with Arnside Educational Institute setting us on our way towards 500 members. Office Manager Diane found out about us when researching funding opportunities, as the Institute have a large number of tasks that are required to keep the building running. Becoming a member is free of […]
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 September. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 25/09/24 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health and […]
Andrea Huxley gives us an update from our ‘This Is Us‘ Community Development Officers on Networking and Learning events, both past and future: From the beginning of the project, we decided that we wanted to run a series of networking events across Westmorland and Furness that would be open to all groups and organisations. […]
Cumbria CVS CEO, David Allen, gives us his views on the recent violent and racist abuse against sections of our communities: When something terrible happens, many of us feel like we ought to “do something”. We may have an immediate emotional response; we may want to talk to our friends and families about how […]
Welcome back to Cumbria CVS Green! Read on for links to useful resources, information and news, updates on our own climate commitment, blog posts from colleagues about what they’re doing (in a work capacity and privately) to minimise environmental impact and more. If you have any suggestions about what you’d like to see in our […]
