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This Saturday’s fixture against Bromley will mark Carlisle United’s dedicated Green Football Game, a special initiative brought to you in collaboration with us here at Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS). The game is part of the Green Football campaign's Great Save initiative, running from March 11 to April 2, with the goal (pardon the pun!) of bringing fans, clubs, and communities together to help combat the climate crisis and safeguard the future of football. The Green Football Great Save Initiative Each year, around 100,000 tonnes of sportswear ends up in UK landfills. But you can help change that! By donating, [...]

The Green Enterprise Hub, a partnership project offering sustainability advice and consultancy to businesses and social enterprises across the Westmorland & Furness area leaves a lasting legacy after supporting 205 organisations with grant funding of nearly £215,000, and over 1,391 hours of support, saving an estimated 283 tonnes of CO2e per year, from grant allocations alone. This is equivalent to over 2 million kilometres of driving or 484 roundtrip flights to Munich. The Hub was led by Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS) as part of an innovative delivery partnership, with support from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Westmorland and [...]

The coming end of the year is always a good excuse to look back at what we’ve achieved over the last 12 months. Our home energy team has covered the length and breadth of Cumbria, giving free advice at events and visiting nearly 900 homes to install free energy saving measures. In this way we’ve helped households be warmer and save tens of £thousands. We’ve also inspired around 100 people to become trained ‘energy champions’ – helping friends, colleagues and neighbours save energy at home. Earlier this year, we ran several events to support households thinking of renovating and retrofitting [...]