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We’ve been creating a brand-new website for CAfS, and we’d like to invite you to be the first to take a peek! It’s still a work in progress, with more content to be added, but we’d welcome your feedback. The site has been redesigned to make it quick and easy for visitors to find the information they need, to make life here in Cumbria more sustainable and tackle climate change. There’s a new sustainable living guide, with practical tips to reduce your carbon footprint – from travel and food to shopping and waste. The new ‘For your home’ section [...]

Students from Cumbria will be among the young people from 150 cities around the world going on strike on Friday 15 March, demanding urgent action on climate change. It’s the latest in a series of protests by young people since last summer, begun by the Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg. Next month’s protest is expected to be the biggest mobilisation of young people so far. Students from 150 cities are taking part, with university students now also starting to join their high-school counterparts. Youth Strike 4 Climate – Carlisle A group of young people from the Carlisle area have organised [...]

Churches from across Cumbria came together last month for a conference on the Christian response to the mounting environmental challenges. CAfS was among the environmental organisations taking part in the Caring for Our Common Home event, at Keswick School on 2 February 2019. Around 150 people attended the conference, which was a chance to reflect on why and how we should care for the Earth, our common home. The possibility of a follow-up conference is in active discussion, after the success of this event, which was sponsored by ECiC and Engaging Theology in Cumbria. "The event was excellent with [...]

CAfS has been named as one of 15 charities from across the UK being awarded national funding that will see thousands of households saving energy, money and living in warmer, more efficient homes. We've been awarded £148,000 from the Energy Saving Trust as part of the Energy Redress Scheme, announced on Tuesday 8 January, which redistributes voluntary payments from UK energy companies. The grant means we can help more than a thousand Cumbrians to reduce their heating bills and get a warmer, more comfortable home. The new Cold to Cosy Homes scheme will offer extensive energy-saving and draughtproofing measures [...]