Cumbria CVS has welcomed more new members to the team over the last six months, all bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to the organisation. We extend a warm welcome to: Gabriela Lipska Westmorland & Furness District Manager With a background in education and cultural anthropology, Gabi has spent most of her professional life […]
Welcome back to Cumbria CVS Green! This month we’re reporting on Zero Carbon Cumbria: Emission Reduction Action Plans. 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 […]
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 April. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 30/04/24 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health and […]
A new online portal is set to make searching for Government, National Lottery and charitable trust funding simple for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises delivering services in Cumbria. This new Cumbria CVS 4 Community self-service portal will make it easy for groups to search for funding for specific activities or services by category, geographic […]
Welcome to our first Cumbria CVS Green post! We’ll be bringing you 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 […]
Shelley Studholme, Step Forward into Volunteering and Employment Project Manager, discusses neuro diversity, work placements and more in this blog post: On the 14th of February, I postponed opening all my Valentine cards and on behalf of the Step Forward Team headed to the Solway Hall, Civic Centre, Whitehaven to attend a Workplace Support Programme […]
Area Engagement Worker, Jess Longrigg, shares news from our Community Connectors project: I am so excited to announce that after a few months of foot-finding, in the last 6-8 weeks I have seen the recruitment of 7 new Community Connectors to the project with a few more waiting in the wings! Between them, they […]
Our South Copeland Development Officer, Beresford Moyle Rosser, gives us an update on what’s he’s been up to recently, and sings the praises of Millom and it’s people: It is said that Millom is the town Cumbria forgot. Certainly, it is not easy to get here being an hours drive from the M6 motorway, a […]
We’ve launched a new Members’ Directory to provide our Members with up to date information on the wealth of voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations operating throughout Cumbria. Following a call to our Members, the new information has been pulled together in a database that allows the user to view an alphabetical list, search by […]
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 March. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 25/03/24 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You’ll also find the latest Health and […]
