Training and Events – Calendar
Furness For You – Lunch and Learn
Date: Monday 13th January 2025
Time: 12:00 am - 2:00 pm
Where: Holiday Inn Express
Town: Barrow-In-Furness
Furness for You – Lunch & Learn (Barrow-in-Furness)
Monday 13th January 2025
12.00– 2:00
Holiday Inn Express, Market St, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 2LR
You are invited to come along to the Furness For You – Lunch & Learn session hosted by Cumbria CVS.
This session aims to attract those that are feeling lonely, chronically isolated or anyone interested in finding out more about the Furness For You project and how it could help support you or someone you know. This event is open to the general public to come along, have some lunch and find out more about what’s on offer from the Furness For You project across the Barrow and Furness area and is funded by the Know Your Neighbourhood Fund.
Volunteering Information Session in Yewdale! (Organisation bookings)
Date: Monday 13th January 2025
Time: 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Yewdale Community Centre
Town: Carlisle
Cumbria CVS is hosting and organising a Volunteering Works Session, aiming to encourage unemployed people to get involved in volunteering as a pathway into employment. This session aims to attract anyone interested in finding out more about becoming a volunteer and local volunteering opportunities in Dalston and surrounding areas, but also to consider the third sector job opportunities.
Volunteering Information Session in Yewdale! (Volunteer bookings)
Date: Monday 13th January 2025
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Where: Yewdale Community Centre
Town: Carlisle
Cumbria CVS is hosting and organising a Volunteering Works Session, aiming to encourage anyone currently not working to get involved in volunteering as a pathway into employment.
This session aims to attract anyone interested in finding out more about becoming a volunteer and local volunteering opportunities in Brampton, but also to consider the third sector job opportunities.
HR for Non HR Specialists in charities & community groups
Date: Tuesday 14th January 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Are you responsible for managing the HR in your organisation but without the benefit of an experienced dedicated HR resource?
From employment law and staff contracts to advertising jobs and interviewing, human resources can be a minefield to negotiate. With their dedicated HR departments, bigger charities are lucky. But what happens if, like many smaller organisations, staff who aren’t specialists have to handle HR? If this is you and you are based in the Westmorland & Furness area, join this 1-hour workshop to:
Eskdale Mill & Heritage Trust- Volunteer Taster Day- Eskdale- 22nd January 2025
Come and join us at Eskdale Mill and Heritage Trust Volunteer Taster Day from 11.00 a.m to 15.00 pm at Eskdale Mill, Boot.
As a volunteer at Eskdale Mill you can volunteer in practical conservation, gardening and groundwork, historic building maintenance, mill and hydro-electric machinery operation and maintenance, reception and/or stewarding duties and artefact maintenance,
Design for Wiser Action Funding Bid Writing Workshop
Date: Thursday 23rd January 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
2.5 hour online facilitated funding bid writing workshop using the Design for Wiser Action collaborative planning tool. 23th January 10 – 12.30
The workshop is the first module in a three part program of support.
The second module will be Budget Writing Skills for Fundraisers of Charities & Community Groups on Wednesday 29th January 2025.
Longtown ICC Meet the third sector event
Date: Thursday 23rd January 2025
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: Longtown Community Centre
Town: Longtown
An opportunity for all ICC staff to find out about all the great services our sector provides in the Longtown and surrounding area.
Thursday 23rd January 2025 12 noon to 2pm (set up from 11.30am)
Longtown Community Centre, Arthuret Rd, Longtown, CA6 5SJ
Space for 30+ organisations – a great opportunity for third sector groups to connect with colleagues from health and care services and to showcase their services. Third sector groups/organisations are to book a table space at the event .
Keswick Museum- Volunteer Taster Day
Come join us at Keswick Museum in Saturday 25th January 10.30a.m – 2.pm.
You will be able to try our a range of roles currently available at the museum and experience what volunteering at Keswick Museum involves.
1 Visitor Services:
See how customer facing roles can help build your transferable skills for a wider professional market. Strengthen your confidence, collaboration, communication and adaptability skill sets.
Volunteer Taster Day- RNLI Silloth
The Silloth RNLI team will show a group of volunteers around the boathouse, explaining the vital work of its team and their individual roles, what is involved in being a volunteer on a daily basis and the equipment they use.
Volunteers will hear all about the capabilities of the lifeboat before seeing it in action when it launches from the slipway.
This Volunteer Taster Day takes place on January 26th from 10am until 12.30.
SOUTH CUMBRIA NHS area – NEW Mental Health Partnerships Workshops delivered by the third sector for the sector – Workshop 1- Information flow
Date: Tuesday 28th January 2025
Time: 9:30 am - 2:30 pm
An exciting series of workshops in January February & March 2025 open to all third sector organisations delivering services for and in support of mental health and mental wellbeing in South Cumbria.
All the workshops will be delivered by our sector for our sector.
All the sessions are fully interactive and will aim to develop ideas and actions to improve:
