We’re excited to part of the new Furness For You partnership, increasing volunteering and tackling loneliness in the area. The partnership is a collaboration between 10 different organisations that are dedicated to focusing on reducing chronic loneliness across Barrow-in-Furness. Funded by the Know Your Neighbourhood Fund, together, the partnership will tackle isolation and increase community […]
Cumbria CVS are delighted to have been awarded £259,151 by Westmorland and Furness Council from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. With our unique knowledge and experience of supporting the third sector and partnership working, we will deliver this project by recruiting Development and Volunteering Officers. They will provide a person-centred, asset-based approach to volunteering and […]
Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for November 23. 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 October 2023, click […]
Are you interested in becoming a Volunteer Trustee? Want to know more about the role of a trustee? Would you like to meet other organisations and trustees to find out about the different opportunities and benefits? Then join one of our: Get on Board – Volunteer Trustee and Director Information Sessions These are informal […]
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: 23/11/23 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You can view last month’s Useful Information […]
Volunteers Ian and Billy, from Calderwood House in Egremont, came to one of our first Community Connectors workshop in March 2023. Calderwood House is a homeless hostel. We have continued to work with them regularly so that they now are leading an event on Rent Arrears on 2nd November. Representatives from Housing Associations, Citizen’s Advice […]
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: Elizabeth Irving Administration Officer Elizabeth has a background in administration and customer service, working for many years at Cumbrian Cottages, dealing with owner […]
Welcome to Cumbria CVS’s Health and Wellbeing News, Events and Opportunities for October 23. 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 2023, click […]
Challenge Poverty Week England & Wales 2023 takes place from 16 to 22 October. The week provides an opportunity for us all to say what needs to change to enable our own communities to thrive. It’s a chance for voices that are too often ignored to be heard loud and clear. It’s a chance to […]
Here in Cumbria, we have been facilitating a Poverty Truth Commission (PTC) in South Lakeland. This is thanks to funding commitment and partnership working with a wide range of statutory sector, voluntary sector and community groups working to listen to and learn from individual residents with direct experience of poverty. Just in time for Challenge […]
