We are Cumbria's climate change and sustainability organisation.

Our vision

A zero carbon Cumbria

Our vision is a zero carbon Cumbria which is socially, environmentally, and economically beneficial for all.

Our mission

We aim to achieve this by promoting and facilitating low carbon living and its benefits – inspiring and supporting individuals, communities, and organisations across Cumbria and beyond to decarbonise lives and businesses by 2037 or sooner.

How you can help

You can help us bring about a more sustainable way of life in Cumbria. As a small organisation, your donation gives us valuable unrestricted funding which can be used to grow and develop. It really makes a huge difference:

Our priorities

Our projects

Our staff

Our trustees

Our partners

How we work

We work across Cumbria to enable individuals, communities, businesses and local authorities to reduce the county’s carbon footprint and bring about a more sustainable way of life here.

We manage and deliver:

events
advice
training
practical projects
specialist consultancy services

How we’re run

CAfS is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee.

We are a team of more than 40 staff, most of us part time, led by our CEO and board of 7 trustees. We are delighted to have carbon footprinting expert Mike Berners-Lee as our patron.

CAfS work is funded through a mix of grants, earned income, contracts and donations. Over the next few years, we are planning to build our donations and other unrestricted income streams so that we can undertake our climate action work in areas that don’t attract much external funding.

The pie chart on this page shows how we’re funded. To find out more about our work, please read latest annual report for 2021-22.