Our Community Fund Our Community Fund provides much-needed funding to local organisations and groups, to create opportunities for projects across our communities that support the following objectives: • Sense of community – bringing communities together • Training and employability – supporting residents to gain or develop skills • Health and wellbeing – improving the health and wellbeing of residents • Improving communities – reducing ASB • Increasing financial and digital inclusion for residents Managed on our behalf by Cumbria Community Foundation, our funding has helped support over 2,500 people in local communities across Cumbria in the last financial year. Details of the how to apply for the fund can be found on our website by clicking here .
‘Team Tanzumbria’ youth exchange programme
Local charity, Cumbria Rungwe, provides a link between the communities of West Cumbria and Rungwe in Tanzania. It’s been running a successful youth exchange programme for over 30 years to give young people the chance to experience other cultures and the young people themselves get involved in fundraising activities. The charity’s work with young people from Workington and North Copeland includes peer mentoring and young leader development culture, as well as awareness raising and involvement in local West Cumbrian schools. CCHA funding has helped reinvigorate this programme, which had to pause during the pandemic. Mary Kipling, Fundraiser, said: “The CCHA funding is being used for our first youth exchange programme in West Cumbria since the pandemic. We’re hosting a group from Rungwe, Tanzania, and the funding is helping us build a team of young people and community volunteers from West Cumbria and Rungwe - ‘Team Tanzumbria’. They’ll visit schools and community groups across the area, involving people of all ages and abilities in the joy of diversity and multiculturalism. Our young people and volunteers will gain skills, confidence, and an insight into how their own communities’ work.”
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