Local residents across Seascale and surrounding areas can celebrate as funding for a new community fitness centre at the Windscale Club in Seascale has been secured. A partnership between community residents and SASRA has raised £160,000. Work to renovate an underused room in the club and turn it into a modern fitness facility will…

The community of Ennerdale has been given more than £100,000 from the Copeland Community Fund to bring the village’s facilities back to life.   Earlier this year residents bought shares in the Fox and Hounds pub, which had been closed for five months, renovated it and reopened it as a community pub.  Now the aim is…

Copeland Borough Council has successfully convinced employers to take on apprentices as a way of boosting their workforce and giving valuable employment to the borough’s young people. The council has already placed 27 young people into apprenticeships with local businesses and a further round of recruitment is currently underway. In total the scheme will create…