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Welcome to the web pages of Cumbria Learning Links!

Cumbria Learning Links is a service of Cumbria CVS.

A new Cumbria CVS website is in the process of development and will be launched in the autumn. In the meantime information will still be provided by this site but will be transferred to the new site in due course.


Thank you for your patience.

YOU CAN
  • Browse through the list of our member organisations in the Learning Links network
  • Search our database for the appropriate trainer or consultant for your group
  • Explore the range and variety of learning activity in Cumbria
  • Search for the solution to your specific training and learning needs.

ABOUT US

Cumbria Learning Links is a programme of Cumbria Council for Voluntary Service (Cumbria CVS) who created this initiative in order to meet the training and learning needs of the voluntary and community sector (vcs) county wide in the most effective and consistent manner.
Cumbria Learning Links serves all organisations in the vcs in Cumbria concerned with or involved with learning and training for staff, volunteers, service users, trustees or the community. We have a service delivery arm, as well as a membership network which is free to join.
Cumbria Learning Links promotes learning as a tool to tackle disadvantage, with a particular commitment to smaller organisations to help them build capacity to carry out their organisational objectives.

Cumbria Learning Links aims:
  • To represent the views and interests of the Cumbrian voluntary and community sectors to key strategic partners in the field of education, training and learning.
  • To support the development of voluntary and community organisations as users and providers of education, training and learning.

What does Cumbria Learning Links do?

  • disseminate and provide access to information on learning and training opportunities, on funding for learning and training, and on other relevant matters to organisations in the voluntary and community sector;
  • represent the learning and training needs of member organisations to strategic partners and other relevant bodies;
  • submit and negotiate funding contracts with funding bodies on behalf of members. Cumbria CVS will hold and manage all contracts on our behalf;
  • promote quality standards across the county;
  • organise meetings, workshops and training-related events for members and other interested parties;
  • provide core generic accredited and non-accredited training to meet the needs of the voluntary and community sector in Cumbria

GOVERNANCE

  • Cumbria Learning Links will operate as a project of Cumbria Council for Voluntary Service (Cumbria CVS). Cumbria CVS is a charitable company limited by guarantee, with a Board of Directors.
  • Cumbria Learning Links will be administered by a Manager and staff team.
  • Cumbria CVS subscribes to the aims and objectives of Cumbria Learning Links, and will endeavour to promote our interests.
  • We will be represented at Cumbria CVS board meetings by the Manager and/or a Director of Cumbria CVS, who will attend all meetings.
  • All recommendations with resource implications proposed by Cumbria Learning Links will be passed to the Board of Cumbria CVS for discussion and formal agreement.
  • Cumbria CVS will hold and manage all contracts on our behalf.
  • Minutes and Reports of meetings and activities will be a standard item on the agenda of Cumbria CVS Board meetings.

Kitty Booth-Clibborn: Manager
Kitty provides strategic management for the work of CLL, ensuring that our work fits into the overall activity of Cumbria CVS and that appropriate partnerships and collaborative ways of working are developed. She also takes a lead on the activities and communication for the CLL Network.
kittybc@cumbriacvs.org.uk

Mark Payne: Programme Co-ordinator
Mark’s role is to coordinate the training programmes that are delivered by Cumbria Learning Links. This involves liaising with the Cumbria CVS and other community groups to ascertain training needs, developing programmes of courses, marketing, and developing and managing quality assurance systems. For our accredited courses Mark is the Internal Moderator and manages our Accreditation Service.

If your organisation has a need for an organisational development course that you can’t find in our current programme contact Mark.

Mark is also an Outcome Champion and licensed PQASSO Mentor.
markp@cumbriacvs.org.uk


OUR PARTNERS

Cumbria Learning Links works in close co-operation with all those with an interest in the training and learning needs of the voluntary and community sector in Cumbria and those disadvantaged groups its work seeks to serve. Informal partners include:
  • Cumbria Adult Education Service
  • OCNNER (The Open College Network)
  • Lancaster University
  • St Martins College
  • Cumbria County Council Neighbourhood Development Team
  • Cumbria SureStart
  • A range of private learning providers and training consultants






Charity Registration No: 1119671
Company Limited by Guarantee No: 6178269
Registered in England at 12a Selby Terrace, Maryport, Cumbria CA15 6NP