Furness Cavaliers AFC
Area: Barrow
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
To provide sporting opportunities for people in the local area
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
Football
Specialism: Sports & Physical Activity
Contact Details
Phone: 07709695250
Address:
Rampside Road
Barrow-in-Furness LA13 0HN
https://www.facebook.com/FurnessCavaliersAFC
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://twitter.com/FurnessCavsAFC/status/1766410700983808346&ved=2ahUKEwjSkI2h4oqHAxU7SkEAHVnlAzUQjjh6BAgbEAE&usg=AOvVaw3ficIXV_aQUD08P1fTongy
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Furness Creatives
Area: Barrow
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
The Aims of the Group are to engage with the Barrow community in their creative pursuits. To establish community art space with a relaxed and friendly working group of mixed ability artists to encourage the study, practice, and development of the arts. With creative’s working on a basis of mutual self-help, with special emphasis given to the encouragement of beginners by the more experienced members.
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
Arts & Crafts: drawing, painting, rubber stamping, knitting, crochet, textiles, block printing, lino printing, etching printing, Silk Screen printing, card making, colouring in, Art Therapy, sculpture, digital art, model making. batik, felting. Basically any type of art or craft. which is open to the imagination of our attendees. If we don't have the ability to do something we will strive to make it possible.
Refreshments provided to those who attend our workshops.
Specialism: Arts & Culture
Contact Details
Phone: 01229871234
Address:
St Matthew's Community Halls
Highfield Road
Barrow-in-Furness LA14 5PA
https://www.facebook.com/Furness.Creatives
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Furness Education & Skills Partnership
Area: Barrow
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
Provide a partnership between the education and business sector - enabling students to develop aspiration and secure skills to succeed in 21st Century Marketplace.
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
Build My Skills – delivered at 4 key stages (KS1, KS2, KS3 & KS4) The Furness STEM Show The Furness Skills Summit Future Careers Project Barrow Engineering Project Happy & Healthy Lifestyles Climate Change Project Step Up and Play
Specialism: Economy & Enterprise
Contact Details
Phone: 07970 072282
Address:
Barrow Island Community Primary School
Trinity Street
Barrow in Furness LA14 2SJ
https://www.fesp.org.uk
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Furness Gymnastics Club
Area: Barrow
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
Furness Gymnastics Club has been helping girls reach their potential in gymnastics since the 1970s, within the Women's Artistic discipline.
Run as a not-for-profit club and through the support of many dedicated volunteers, it provides classes for over 200 gymnasts a week. Classes are provided for complete beginners right through to competitive gymnasts, making sure there is something for children of all ages and abilities.
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
Recreational gymnastics classes from age 9 months to 18 years. (250+ places)
Competitive Women's Artistic Gymnastics squad coaching for 40 competitive gymnasts age 4-16
Specialism: Sports & Physical Activity
Contact Details
Phone: 07976056752
Address:
Greater Kings Hall, Hartington Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. LA14 5SR
Barrow in Furness LA14 5SR
https://www.furnessgymnastics.co.uk
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Furness Model Railway Club
Area: Barrow
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
The aim of the Furness Model Railway Club, which is a non-profit making organisation, shall be to encourage the hobby of model railways and model engineering by co-operative effort in the acquiring and interchange of knowledge, practical help, exhibitions of work finished or under construction, also the development of the club, club life and the hobby in general.
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
Our clubrooms and facilities in the park are open to all members of the society, for dates, times and location please contact Russ Peters, Chairman (fmrc.chair@talktalk.net). In the clubrooms we build and maintain layouts in scales from N to OO, members can acquires skills such as woodworking and electrica together with scenery production. At the park track, members can learn how to drive and maintain live steam and battery powered engines, where rides can be undertaken by members of the public. (Fine Sunday afternoons, throughout the year). We also hold an annual exhibition, the second full weekend in October, where models from our own club are brought together with those from other parts of the country.
Specialism: Arts & Culture
Contact Details
Phone:
Address:
The Flat
1 Dundee Street
Barrow in Furness LA14 2RP
http://www.furnessmrc.com
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Furness Refugee Support
Area: Barrow, South Lakes
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
To support refugees and asylum seekers coming to the Furness area. Providing a contact so they can attend FRS social groups and wider support.
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
English classes
Shopping trips
Supply of furniture, bedding, crockery etc.
Social events, including walks, visits to educational establishments, Eid parties and similar.
Signposting to more appropriate support, as required
Working closely with Furness Multicultural Forum on projects.
Support to volunteer in the local community
Specialism: Health & Wellbeing
Contact Details
Phone: 07748970704
Address:
5 Ainslie St
Ulverston LA12 7JE
https://furnessrefugeesupport.org
https://www.facebook.com/groups/480202902147453/?fref=ts
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Furness Tradition
Area: South Lakes
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
Furness Tradition was originally formed in 1997/8 to put on a Festival. Furness Tradition is run entirely by volunteers who aim to promote awareness of, and participation in the folk music traditions of Cumbria, especially Furness. It is a registered charity (no 1123291)
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
To promote folk arts within the community.
See our website and our Facebook page for latest events
Specialism: Arts & Culture
Contact Details
Phone: 01229 588290
Address:
36 The Gill
Ulverston LA12 7BP
https://furnesstradition.org.uk
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064874014884
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Furness Youth Theatre
Area: Barrow, South Lakes
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
To provide family entertainment in the Furness area and to develop the artistic, technical and social skills of the members.
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
Main performances, smaller scale concerts, workshops and rehearsals.
Specialism: Children & Young People
Contact Details
Phone: 01229 585433
Address:
12 Parkhead Road
Ulverston LA12 9NX
http://www.furnessyouththeatre.com
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Futureproof Cumbria
Area: Allerdale, Barrow, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden, South Lakes
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
To help people, organisations and communities tackle the climate crisis by promoting action and supporting change.
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
Free home energy advice
Buildings retrofit advice and support
PV advice and support
EV advice and support
Free thermal imaging
Training and events including carbon literacy
Cumbria sustainability network coordination
Schools support
Low carbon food projects including Cumbria Carrot Connections
Leadership of the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership
Specialism: Environment
Contact Details
Phone: 07881279025
Address:
Rural Eden Foyer
Old London Road
Penrith CA11 8ET
http://www.futureproofcumbria.org.uk
https://www.facebook.com/CAfSonline/
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Gatesbield Quaker Housing Association
Area: South Lakes
Purpose/aim of your organisation:
Gatesbield offers sheltered housing for older people consisting of twelve ground floor and ten first floor unfurnished flats, each with its own separate external entrance. Our tenants are primarily drawn from the local area, but we welcome applications from further afield. Tenancies are awarded on the basis of a needs based assessment.
List of activities and/or services provided by your organisation:
At Gatesbield, we aim to offer older people the security and support necessary to enable them to enjoy their independence. The staff team comprises of a full-time Scheme Manager, part-time Assistant Wardens, a Cook and Domestic Help. We also have a contract Gardener and Maintenance person.
A member of staff is on duty 7 days a week between 9 am and 5 pm. Outside these hours a UK based Community Alarms centre will call our own on-call staff
or the emergency services if an of our tenants need urgent help.
We have a Tenant Support service available to tenants should they want additional support with cleaning, laundry or other domestic tasks.
Although Gatesbield does not itself provide personal care, we can help make any necessary arrangements with a local care agency.
Specialism: Housing
Contact Details
Phone: 015394 45578
Address:
Gatesbield House
New Road
Windermere LA232LA
http://www.gatesbield.org.uk
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