View by category
The Centre for Leadership Performance's Dream Placement is an award-winning collaborative programme. It provides young people across Cumbria with potentially life-changing opportunities to spend the February half-term learning about local businesses whilst developing their leadership qualities and workplace skills.
Can you offer a land based work placement opportunity? It is important that we all take responsibility for ensuring the next generation can experience the opportunities available in the land and nature sector here in Cumbria. Not sure where to start? The Centre for Leadership and Performance (CfLP) have it all worked out for you! They offer everything from creating a placement which benefits you and the young candidate, to finding suitable candidates, to staff training and mentoring.
This well established and highly managed development programme is available for young people across Cumbria who are 16 - 18. Providing an inclusive yet competitive process that enables young people to experience workplace behaviours and develop key employability skills for the future, whilst building their confidence and resilience through a supported programme of activity. Every year hundreds of young people benefit with the full programme running from September to March
Thanks to additional funding some FREE places are available to expand the reach of the programme, in particular for charities and under-represented sectors.
Please do consider being part of this unique collaboration and support more young people in the local area with development and placement opportunities.
Cumbria Chamber of Commerce are working with Skills England and local authorities to improve our understanding of how skills, training and recruitment is affecting employers. This is your chance to have your say and shape the future. It would be greatly appreciated if you could take a short amount…
University of Cumbria has partnered with the World Food Prize Foundation to become the first UK university to offer the Global Challenge youth programme, including hosting the UK Youth Institute in April 2026. The Global Challenge is an international, self-led development programme for young…
LANSS were delighted to attend this event alongside other employers, educators and local leaders from across Cumbria. The aim of the event was to explore how the region can better unite to support young people to understand and build skills essential for their future, ensuring consistency across…
LANSS was proud to be part of a Skills Fair recently held in Barrow Town Hall. There were 45 organisations represented and as well as jobseekers in attendance, several schools from the local community visited throughout the day so that their students could discover possible career options for the…
