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First public chargepoints in South Copeland launched

By |2023-04-14T14:32:32+01:00April 28th, 2021|Electric vehicles, Homepage, News|

Thwaites Village Hall has become the first in South Copeland to install two community funded Electric Vehicle (EV) chargepoints as they place themselves on the cutting edge of the future of transport. The sockets are the first publicly accessible chargepoints to be activated in South Copeland and the installation marks a huge step forward for residents who may have been considering when they will switch to an EV. The people from Thwaites Village Hall are eager to welcome new visitors to the area who otherwise might not have been able to drive through as well as to provide a [...]

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Job: Project manager – Cold to Cosy Homes

By |2022-11-23T12:19:58+00:00April 22nd, 2021|Vacancies - expired|

Closing date: 9am, Thu 13 May 2021 We are recruiting an experienced manager to deliver our Cold to Cosy Homes service, helping vulnerable households across Cumbria to save energy, save money and enjoy a warmer home. Thanks to new funding, we are expanding the service, and you'll develop it and lead on increasing demand, to meet our new goals, while improving efficiency and outcomes.   You'll also lead on generating income by developing our paid energy services, which support households with improving their property's energy efficiency - from home energy audits to thermal imaging and events. You'll raise additional funds and future [...]

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Job: Project officer – Cold to Cosy Homes

By |2022-11-23T12:20:43+00:00April 22nd, 2021|Vacancies - expired|

Closing date: 9am, Thu 13 May 2021 Join our busy team delivering Cold to Cosy Homes Cumbria and other energy-advice projects to vulnerable households across Cumbria. Our Cold to Cosy Homes service provides energy-saving advice to households along with installing energy-saving measures to save on costs, cut carbon and enjoy a cosier home. The role includes promoting the service to our network of volunteers and organisations across Cumbria and providing advice by telephone and at home visits. The role also includes analysing demand for advice, visits and installations and coordinating with our team of advisors and installers. [...]

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Donate today and your money will be doubled!

By |2021-05-04T16:22:15+01:00April 22nd, 2021|Climate politics, Homepage, News|

We're very excited here at CAfS to announce that we have been lucky enough to be chosen as one of 100 environmental charities that will take part in The Big Give's Green Match Fund! This means that for every donation that we receive this week  (22-29 April), the money will be doubled by our benefactor The Oglesby Charitable Trust. DONATE NOW Our donations page is now live and our generous supporters can make one donation with twice the impact! This is our Race To Zero campaign as the money will go towards boosting our ability to reach [...]

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How to improve your green spaces

By |2023-04-14T14:32:32+01:00April 19th, 2021|Homepage, News|

We recently received an inquiry from a partner organisation about what measures they could take to improve the green spaces they manage from a carbon reduction perspective. The green spaces we keep can aid a helping hand in negating some of the emissions we produce by taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They're also invaluable in ensuring that local wildlife has plenty of habitation space and on top of all that, they just look nice! Our colleague Roe has been doing some digging and unearthed a few resources that anyone who's looking to make a  bigger environmental impact with [...]

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Calling all Fellfoot community buildings!

By |2021-04-19T15:11:09+01:00April 19th, 2021|Fellfoot Forward, Homepage, News|

The Fellfoot Forward scheme can support community buildings to change to a low carbon, sustainable way of life and focus on opportunities to retrofit and renovate in harmony with the environment, utilising renewable energy, choosing natural materials, and nurturing an ethos of reduce, reuse, repair and recycle. Grant funding support is available via the Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme to help community buildings of heritage value in the area who want to make energy efficiency improvements to the fabric of their building and for user comfort. This could include but is not exclusive to; roof, floor or wall insulation, [...]

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Ambleside to Zero – what we’ve learned so far

By |2021-04-19T15:32:29+01:00April 9th, 2021|Ambleside to Zero, Community energy, Home energy efficiency, Homepage, News, Renewable energy|

by Molly Hogg, Low carbon communities project manager CAfS is proud to have supported Ambleside Action for a Future (AAFAF) for the past two years. Established in late 2018, this local sustainability action group has grown to over 100 members and is committed to reducing the whole town’s carbon footprint to net zero by 2030. Their outstanding ambition is being backed by South Lakeland District Council (SLDC). They see this as an opportunity to develop a whole-place approach to community decarbonisation that can be expanded across the district and replicated elsewhere. SLDC engaged CAfS to support AAFAF to shape [...]

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Good take up of the new CAfS carbon footprint calculators!

By |2021-04-19T14:30:48+01:00April 9th, 2021|Food, Home energy efficiency, Homepage, News, Renewable energy|

We‘re delighted to see good, early enthusiasm for our new carbon footprint calculators that were launched in early March 2021. Since then, they’ve already been used by 50 households and 10 businesses. You can find the calculators on our website here. They are available to use, for free, across Cumbria and Lancashire. One is for households and one is for businesses, both based on the same model. Measuring your carbon footprint is a great way of understanding the size of your environmental impact, specifically, how much greenhouse gas you are emitting from your daily activities or from your business. [...]

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Cumbria bicycle mayor launches Penrith chargepoint

By |2021-04-19T12:58:18+01:00April 7th, 2021|Electric vehicles, Homepage, News|

Two electric vehicle chargepoints and two charging sockets for e-bikes have been installed at Blain House in Penrith. The electric vehicle chargepoints are the latest in a series of similar installations by Lancaster based community benefit society Charge My Street who, over the past year, have launched chargepoints in Carlisle, Kendal, Barrow and Aspatria among others. This is the first of the installations to have integrated charging facilities for e-bikes, a prospect that Richard Ingham, Cumbria’s bicycle mayor saw as an important step forward. He said: “It makes a statement that cyclists, whether they be on e-bikes or non-assisted [...]

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CAfS Annual Report 2019-2020

By |2021-04-13T10:45:20+01:00March 31st, 2021|Alston Moor Greenprint, Ambleside to Zero, Cumbria Green Build Festival, Electric vehicles, Food, Homepage, News|

We are delighted to announce that our annual report for the financial year of 2019-2020 is finished and now available to download from our website. As we've been adapting to the unique challenges of the most recent year, one of those challenges has been to look back beyond last March and continue the process of evaluating and celebrating our successes that were achieved. This report has details on our largest ever Green Build Festival as well as our Cold to Cosy Homes service which as since gone from strength to strength. Also included is the partnership with the Carbon [...]

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