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CUMBRIA CELEBRATES DAY OF KINDNESS
Organisations, charities, businesses and schools across the county, recently came together to celebrate the very first Kind Cumbria Day.
The Cumbria Neighbourliness Network, who are behind the campaign, was formed in 2018 by a range of third sector organisations, led by ACTion with Communities in Cumbria (ACT). They have been developing ideas about what it means to be neighbourly and how they might promote neighbourliness in our region, as a small movement towards addressing social isolation and loneliness.
Lorraine Smyth, Chief Executive of ACT commented: “There are many people already doing neighbourly things and organisations have neighbourliness as one of their aims or running a service that would tick the box for neighbourliness already.
“we just want to highlight all the good things already happening in Cumbria and encourage others to get involved and think about being more neighbourly, and kind to others.”
As a result, the group created the social media campaign ‘Kind Cumbria’ across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and have been promoting kindness and neighbourliness each month, with a different theme relating to neighbourliness. From mental health and young people, to crime prevention, sharing a cup of tea with a neighbour and encouraging people to get
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involved and share stories. The campaign had engagement from all sorts of individuals and organisations across Cumbria from Grange-Over-Sands, Ambleside, Carlisle, to Maryport who want to know more, who are sharing their ideas, events and generally feeling very positive about the messages being posted. It seems that Cumbria is indeed a very kind place to live.
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The network have been encouraging other organisations, schools, businesses, charities, community groups and the general public to think about what random act of kindness they could be involved in. Perhaps visiting a care home and taking cake, doing a litter pick in a communal space, volunteering some time, or something as simple as making a cup of tea.
The team have also been creating 'Kindness Walls' in their offices and encouraging visitors and
colleagues to write down examples of ways in which they’ve been kind, or how people have been kind to them on a Post-it note and adding it to the wall.
You can follow Kind Cumbria on
@kind_cumbria
www.facebook.com/kindcumbria @kind_cumbria
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