Submitted by Sue Reeve of Windmill Bookkeeping & Training Services / Regional Manager in Cumbria for The Athena Network  Visiting a new network can be daunting, but you’ll find all members of The Athena Network are incredibly warm and welcoming, striking that tricky balance between a professional, business-minded network and a very human group of women striving to build and grow their businesses, just like you. Would you like to get involved? When: Thursday 18th January 2024 at 12-2pm Where: Online via Zoom Booking Link:  https://theathenanetwork.com/ events/cumbria-2024-01-18/ Join us as a founding member and be part of something very special, right from the very beginning…. A bit about the organiser: I’m Sue Reeve a bookkeeper  for over 30 years. I’m the owner of Windmill Bookkeeping & Training Services, & based in beautiful Cumbria, near the sea. I help business owners to be in control of their business finances with Bookkeeping, Training & Business Pro...

  The Miners Arms Community Association (MACA) was formed to explore options for a community buy-out of the local pub. The Miners Arms, Nenthead, Cumbria has been at the heart of the village for generations, first opening its doors nearly 200 years ago. It closed in 2020 and has not reopened, it is now for sale. Residents of Nenthead came together at a special community meeting recently to discuss how they might go about saving their local, the Miners Arms. Since its formation, the Miners Arms Community Association (MACA) has been busy researching what is required for a community to successfully take ownership of a local pub and reopen it to the public. MACA completed a survey with residents to better understand local people’s appetite for the project. “When we asked local people whether we should save our pub, the response was an overwhelming YES!” said Simon Walker, Chair of MACA. “The Miners Arms was a favourite of the village and a huge part of our local community. We want to s...

 Submitted by Stephen Ironmonger; BCS Cumbria North Branch chairman Robert Edgson will share his knowledge of PowerBI and Microsoft Fabric in the context of Data Architectures Date and time Tuesday 5 December, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Location Castle Green Hotel Castle Green Lane Kendal LA9 6RG Price Free Speaker Robert Edgson Agenda 6:30pm - Refreshments and networking 7:00pm - Presentation 8:30pm - Discussion and networking 9:30pm - Event ends   Synopsis Power BI is now under the umbrella of Microsoft Fabric. You were that reluctant Power BI admin. You have noticed things have changed; you want to put controls in place and try things out. But you simply do not know enough to make changes in your company tenancy confidently. After all, you only have one tenancy. In this session, I shall show you how to create a Microsoft developer sandbox with 25 M365 E5 Developer licenses. Enable Microsoft Fabric and point out some pitfalls I’ve fallen into when transitioning from Power BI Admin...

Submitted  Kay Hyde, RSPB England Communications Officer  Haweswater. Image credit: Patrick Neaves A team of sixty soldiers from the British Army had joined up with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to reinvigorate the peat bog ecosystem at Haweswater, as part of an extensive landscape restoration effort.  This collaborative project happened on Thursday 19 October, marks the second year of the British Army’s ‘Global Charge’ green initiative, demonstrating their commitment to supporting local environmental projects. In an area of peat bog in the Riggindale Valley, the soldiers will be using their strength, and crucially, their engineering expertise, to strategically move several huge boulders and 1,000 natural bags of earth, so that water will be captured and held in place to re-wet this landscape for a thriving habitat to develop. Haweswater, nestled in the Eastern Lake District, was selected as the site of this partnership due to its long-term conserva...

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 Submitted by Aaron Cockbain 26/09/2023    FOLK AT THE JOHN PEEL Station Road, Wigton CA7 9AE admin@wigtontheatre.org www.wigtontheatre.org www.ticketsource.co.uk/wigtontheatre   You can pick up tribute bands all over the place, but Wigton’s John Peel Theatre brings you the real thing, starting with the multi talented Charlie Dore, on tour now with the equally impressive Julian Littman:   Writer and singer of 70s hit, Pilot of the Airwaves , she has written songs recorded by Tina Turner, Sheena Easton, Celine Dion, and Jimmy Nail amongst others.   “A gift for melody, lyrically brave, poignant, entertaining, original.” The Guardian ****   The John Peel is lucky to have booked this amazing duo, as one of only 14 towns in the country from Cornwall to the most northerly part of their tour in Wigton.   Charlie Dore/Julian Littman 28 th September https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE9xQbwCpio “ There are limi...

 Submitted by  Helen Bartosinski  23rd March 2023 Barrow’s famous moose will be coming out of the vaults for a special one-week celebration of the historic sights & sounds of Duke Street. The huge moose’s head is among the most fondly-remembered artefacts from Barrow Museum’s previous home above the town’s library. Now it’ll be on display for one week only at 105 Duke Street from March 27-Apr 2 as part of a multimedia installation exploring memories of the old museum, Pass’s Department Store and The Public Hall. “It was above the door as you went in, enormous it was!" said Walney resident Margaret, one of the old museum’s regular visitors whose memories will be among the sounds in the exhibition. “As a little child, going up the stairs it was quite something!”. It’s said mischievous boys would sneak up to pat it on the head.   Margaret’s among many Barrovians whose memories of Duke Street have been recorded as part of the Re: Discover Barrow project funded b...