A new Chair has been appointed at Cumbria CVS, to lead the Trustee team. The Board are crucial for holding the organisation to account and ensuring public confidence, for determining overall direction, and providing leadership. Sheila Gregory still lives in her childhood home near Houghton just outside of Carlisle. It was at Leeds University 48 […]
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 December. Please check back regularly. (Last update: 02/01/24 – items added on this date are marked as [NEW]) You can view last month’s Useful Information […]
After a year of building relationships and sharing stories, members of the South Lakes Poverty Truth Commission took to the high stage of the Ladyholme Centre in Windermere, on 13 October, to share their experiences in public for the first time. Members of the 60-strong audience, made up of individuals and organisations who have supported […]
We’re delighted to be publishing our 2022-23 Annual Review. Covering the period from April 2022 to March 2023, it features reports on a huge range of activity across the year. Our Chief Executive, David Allen, describes the period as containing many challenges, including the aftermath of the pandemic, continued social isolation, increases in NHS waiting […]
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 […]
