Cumbria Rural Panel
The ‘Cumbria Countryside Forum’ was set up in 1991, providing organisations and individuals with a place to come together and discuss issues of concern to rural life. In 2000 this became ‘Cumbria Rural Forum’. More recently in 2016, a review considered the Forum’s effectiveness for the future, and resulted in plans to establish the ‘Cumbrian Rural Panel’.
Download the Cumbria Rural Forum Review Report
The Panel is intended to provide a balance of interests and expertise across different sectors of our rural county to: engage in meaningful debates; identify solutions; disseminate information; and promote action.
We would like to invite you to join the Cumbria Rural Panel, to help us gather information on pressing rural issues and be part of an effective rural voice. To join, or for more information, please contact Dani Hall on Tel: 01228 817224 or Email: danihall@cumbriaaction.org.uk
We're asking rural Cumbrian residents what services are important to them. This brief survey will provide a focus for the first discussions of the Cumbria Rural Panel.
Join our dedicated team, of community development staff. You will predominately be working with communities in Allerdale and Copeland - 22 hours per week, starting salary £22,878 per annum, pro rata. The office is based in Penrith, with options to work from home after probationary period.
You can find out more about ACT's work, download the job description, personal specification and application form by visiting our website www.cumbriaaction.org.uk
ACTion with Communities in Cumbria (ACT) celebrated its 70th birthday at an AGM last week (Friday 19 October) and looked forward with a focus on neighbourliness for the future. Over 50 delegates, including ACT team members, Trustees and representatives of a wide range of community organisations, met at Braithwaite Institute near Keswick for the formal AGM, a celebratory cake marking ACT’s support for communities in Cumbria since 1948 and the launch of ACT’s Neighbourliness Works campaign.
Village hall volunteers joined ACTion with Communities in Cumbria (ACT) on Saturday to congratulate Thursby Parish Hall on becoming the first hall in Cumbria to receive a Hallmark Two award for good management, health, safety, security and licenses.
ACTion with Communities in Cumbria (ACT) is 70 in October and has used the publication of its Annual Review of 2017-2018 as an opportunity to celebrate the success of its approach of working with communities to make change happen across rural Cumbria.
ACTion with communities in Cumbria has been working with participants from seven village halls to design a Managing Risks Toolkit for the 300 plus halls across Cumbria.
The project aims to assist village halls to deal with the challenges of extreme weather events and other risks such as loss of income, issues within committees and other situations. It is funded by the Prince’s Countryside Fund and was awarded after Storm Desmond when a number of halls in Carlisle, South Lakeland and Allerdale were flooded.
ACTion with Communities in Cumbria (ACT) is supporting community resilience and emergency planning activities across Cumbria, as part of a 3 year BIG Lottery funded programme. This includes helping people to get together to share their experiences, think about future risks and what they might do to be better prepared.