Monthly Archives: April 2024

We are absolutely delighted to say WE DID IT! We beat our £20K target! A massive thank you to everyone who donated to our Big Give campaign this year to Fight for our Future, and to those of you who shared or retweeted our social media posts. Launching at lunchtime on Thursday 18 April, the week-long appeal saw a strong start, getting to 44% of our target after just four days. Donations continued to trickle in and after a mad flurry - and mild panic! - on the morning of Thursday 25 April, the target of £20k was met [...]

Are you ready to spring into climate action? CAfS are excited to announce that the 2024 Big Give appeal is now open for donations - with every penny matched thanks to the Green Match Fund. Your donations will support positive action right here in Cumbria; let's turn the tide on the climate crisis and create a brighter, greener future for all. Here in Cumbria, we are working to reduce carbon emissions as quickly as possible. We have made good progress in many areas, but we need your help to increase our impact and take significant action to tackle the [...]

As delivery partners in the Westmorland and Furness Green Enterprise Hub, CAfS have been able to support small and medium enterprises with tailored carbon reduction and sustainability support. “Our mission is to empower organisations to reduce their carbon footprint, drive innovation, and unlock the benefits of a cleaner, greener future.” One of the businesses we’ve been working with is Alpacally Ever After, a social enterprise that rehomes alpacas and llamas from all over the country and give them a wonderful new home with the very best of care, while bringing people in touch with the landscape and the natural world [...]

Our recent Solar Made Easy event in Grange Over Sands saw over 100 people from 70 households in attendance. The receptive and knowledgeable audience posed a raft of technical and testing questions to the installers Create Energy and Glow Solar who are two of five installation companies vetted by CAfS and working with us on the Solar Made Easy project. Many of the households have already progressed to obtaining quotes. The solar map commissioned by CAfS identifies over 4,500 rooves across the seven towns and villages on the Cartmel Peninsula that are suitable for solar panel installations, with the [...]