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Voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations are being invited to apply for a share of a new £350k grant fund created by Westmorland and Furness Council to provide money advice services to local communities.

The Know Your Numbers campaign aims to reach those who have high blood pressure and don’t know it.

A community has joined together to celebrate the official reopening of a 'pocket park' designed to help ensure people of all ages have access to attractive green space and opportunities for natural play.

Councillors have endorsed preliminary designs for a new cycling, walking and wheeling route along Abbey Road in Barrow.

The event will offer dementia advice and support for residents and local businesses

Heritage restoration works are under way to protect an historic pub on a remote island off the Furness Peninsula.

A FREE, clinically proven intervention to help people quit smoking is being piloted by Westmorland and Furness Council.

Members of the public are being warned NOT to pick up or touch dead birds after the number of confirmed cases of Avian Influenza (otherwise known as Bird Flu) in wild birds rises in Cumbria. 

More than 20 business leaders from Penrith and the surrounding area met together as part of a joint initiative between Westmorland and Furness Council’s Economic Development and Regeneration Team and Cumbria Chamber of Commerce. 

Westmorland & Furness Council’s Cabinet has given its unanimous backing to the Penrith Business Improvement District (BID), as local businesses take part in a ballot to secure a proposed third 5-year term for the organisation.