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Yearly Archives: 2022

Job: Customer Administrator

Closing date: 9am 24 January SALARY RANGE: £21,225 to £24,000 full-time equivalent. Starting salary dependent on skills and experience. LOCATION: Contractually based at our office, Eden Rural Foyer, Old London Road, Penrith, CA11 8ET. Homeworking can be agreed. Occasional meetings required at venues across Cumbria. HOURS: 22.5 – 30 hours a week with flexibility to be worked across 3, 4 or 5 days. START DATE: As soon as possible DURATION: Fixed term contract for 6 months We are expanding our Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria service in order to deliver more free home energy advice support across all districts [...]

By |2023-02-01T15:49:50+00:00December 21st, 2022|Vacancies - expired|
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Volunteers sought to lead Zero Carbon Cumbria sector groups

The Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership is looking for four dynamic and visionary people to lead the county's four industry sector groups. These voluntary roles present a unique opportunity to use your skills and experience to steer a critical and influential project in tackling the climate crisis in Cumbria. Through the Carbon Baseline Report for Cumbria, the partnership has identified the county’s major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and these make up the four sector groups – transport, buildings, land use and agriculture, and consumption. We know the scale of emissions and the actions that can be taken to reduce them. [...]

By |2023-01-16T12:48:07+00:00December 21st, 2022|Homepage, News, Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership|
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Job: Finance and Resources Manager

Closing date: 15 Feb SALARY RANGE: £30,000 - £40,000 a year full-time equivalent. Starting salary dependent on skills and experience. LOCATION: Contractually based at our office, Eden Rural Foyer, Old London Road, Penrith, CA11 8ET, however we encourage flexible working patterns and blended home and office working. HOURS: 22.5 – 30 hours a week with flexibility to be worked across 5 days. START DATE: As soon as possible DURATION: Permanent contract We're looking for a finance professional to take the lead on the day to day management of our finances who also has the appetite to work [...]

By |2023-02-15T11:20:43+00:00December 20th, 2022|Vacancies - expired|
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It’s the wrong choice: Cumbrian coal mine approved

The government has made the wrong choice in approving the Whitehaven coal mine. It will add to damaging climate change exactly when we need to be adopting new, clean technologies for steel production instead of polluting fossil fuels and flies in the face of promises made at the UN climate summit hosted by the UK government last year. West Cumbria needs new jobs and people may have welcomed the mine for that reason, but it is extremely unlikely it will have the lifespan that West Cumbria Mining has suggested. Instead, we could be growing the industries that are crucial to [...]

By |2022-12-07T21:05:38+00:00December 7th, 2022|Fossil fuels, Homepage, Uncategorised|
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Great ways to give this Christmas

With Christmas now less than a month away, many of us will be starting to think about gifts and cards for family and friends and perhaps how we can make our festive celebrations a little more climate friendly this year. We've brought together a few hassle-free ways to do some climate good this Christmas. Give the gift of a donation If you're struggling to think of a gift for that person who has everything and want your money to do some real good for the planet this Christmas, give the gift of a donation [...]

By |2022-12-07T15:32:17+00:00November 29th, 2022|Homepage, News|
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Volunteer Climate Champions spread the message

Did you know about the growing network of climate champion volunteers across Cumbria?   In July we recruited a team of volunteer ‘climate champions’ for the second year in a row. Each champion completed accredited Carbon Literacy training delivered by us and further training to prepare them for setting up and delivering events in their community.   This year many of the events have had creative themes, such as green bunting and banner making and a plant-based brunch to engage families. In fact, one champion set up a dedicated Facebook group for parents to reduce their carbon emissions (which you [...]

By |2023-08-22T14:00:54+01:00November 28th, 2022|Climate Champions, Homepage, News|
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Young people draw a roadmap to greener transport

Schoolchildren from all over Cumbria have called for local action to ensure sustainable, safe transport and to tackle climate change, at a Youth Climate Summit held on 20 October in Carlisle. The event, supported by CAfS through the Zero Carbon Cumbria programme, explored the theme of Making Change in Your Community: Transport Solutions. The pupils questioned how they could steer climate action in the county. They heard from guest speaker Richard Ingham, Bicycle Mayor of Cumbria, about his mission to convince policy-makers to invest in more infrastructure for cycling in the county, and to grow a culture of cycling [...]

By |2022-12-06T11:38:55+00:00November 1st, 2022|Homepage, News, Youth|
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New Zero Carbon Cumbria website goes live

A new hub for climate action in Cumbria opens its doors to the online world this week. The new Zero Carbon Cumbria website brings together all the great things happening across Cumbria to cut carbon emissions and help Cumbrians play their part in global action to stop the climate crisis. CAfS created the website on behalf of the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership, so it's exciting for us to see it go live and to celebrate all the climate action already under way, by people from all walks of life, from businesses to residents. The launch comes at a particularly topical time, [...]

By |2022-11-01T15:51:43+00:00November 1st, 2022|Homepage, News|
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1000 people trained in carbon literacy milestone!

Over 1000 people have developed their understanding of the climate crisis thanks to our hugely successful carbon literacy training! Our carbon literacy courses began in September 2019 and we have held over 85 climate training courses since then: reaching individuals and organisations across the County. And thanks to a link with the Carbon Literacy Project around half of those have been accredited. This success has been recognised by the Carbon Literacy Project who featured CAfS in their 10th anniversary celebration of 10 stories for 10 years of Carbon Literacy.  Carbon literacy training is recognised as an important tool in our [...]

By |2024-06-03T09:26:51+01:00October 31st, 2022|Carbon Literacy, News|
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Award shortlist for energy team

Our energy team here at CAfS has been shortlisted for a prestigious award designed to shine a light on achievements in the community energy sector. The categories in the Community Energy Awards highlight the wider community energy sector, such as a community energy organisation of the year, the scaling up community energy award and the Local Authority collaboration award.   The CAfS energy team has been shortlisted in the ‘fuel poverty action’ category in recognition of our active engagement in addressing fuel poverty and energy efficiency.  This category rewards a community energy association that is actively engaged in addressing the issue of fuel [...]

By |2022-10-31T16:54:19+00:00October 31st, 2022|News|
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