We can customise a package to fit your needs, capacity, and budget
Our programmes aim to develop leaders at every stage of life, from primary pupils to adults, ultimately contributing to more resilient economies, sustainable incomes, and safer communities across Cumbria.
Bright Stars
Bright Stars introduces primary-age children to leadership and social entrepreneurship from a young age. Through this programme, we nurture the leaders of tomorrow and empower pupils to think creatively, develop teamwork skills, and influence change in their communities by creating mini social enterprises with support from local businesses.
Become a strategic partner and help fund a school to take part.
Businesses are invited to dedicate just one hour per week for 12 weeks to mentor the next generation of change-makers either Spring/Summer and/or Autumn/Winter.
We’ll also support and train a small number of your team to become mentors, guiding children as they develop their enterprise ideas.
Outcomes & Impact
“Helping them to develop their skills both creatively and confidently, learning about teamwork and leadership in a fun way, was incredibly satisfying for us as a business, and we feel we have had a real impact on their future and in shaping skills needed for our County.” Sharon Brook – North Lakes Hotel & Spa
✓Connect with your future workforce
✓Raise the profile of your business in the local community
✓Gain exposure across multiple channels
✓Develop your graduates and apprentices key leadership skills and increase their productivity and motivation
✓Empower children to influence change in their communities
✓Raise the aspirations, confidence and self-belief of young people
✓Help create a brighter, thriving future for Cumbria
✓Grow Cumbria’s talent pipeline
Each year we ask businesses to help contribute to the running of the programme which costs around £1650 per school. We ask businesses depending on size to contribute which ranges from £750 to £2500 but we know this can be a barrier so we also seek grant funding and sponsorship for charities and smaller businesses who may wish to get involved but would find this funding model a barrier to engagement,
Funding enables us to grow the scheme across Cumbria and offer this opportunity to more young people.
Dream Placement
Dream Placement is a six month leadership development programme for all 16-18 year olds across Cumbria, which for some young people will result in a week’s Dream Placement.
Become a strategic partner and help fund this 6-month programme that supports all applicants. You’ll also host a one-week leadership placement during February half term.
Businesses are invited to a selection event in December to interview candidates and choose at least one to host for a week-long placement during the February half term. CforLP can help match you with the right student and assist with structuring the placement week.
Outcomes & Impact
“It is important to connect with young people as they aren’t always shown the breadth of opportunities that are available to them. This is a great way for us to be instantly around and showcase to the students.” Emma Dockeray, Soundwave Cumbria
✓ Gain fresh perspectives and develop new ideas
✓ Gain exposure across multiple channels
✓ Connect and develop essential skills in your future workforce
✓ Showcase the breadth of opportunities within your organisation
✓ Network with other host company partners
✓ Raise the profile of your business
✓ Help young people have a positive view of their future in Cumbria
✓ Attract and retain your future workplace leaders
✓ Develop employees’ key leadership skills and increase their productivity and motivation
Starting from £1000 depending on the size of your business.
Leading Change
The Leading Change Programme enables us to engage with 11 to 18 year olds across Cumbria to inspire and nurture future aspirations and empower young people to make decisions, to make commitments and ultimately to make a difference to their communities. Working with Sellafield Ltd and funded by SIX (Social Impact Multiplied) in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the Leading Change Sustainability Campaign programme enabled young people from schools across West Cumbria to lead a campaign and raise awareness around key sustainability issues in their schools and communities.
Be a sponsor or business mentor. Leading Change seeks support to expand and inspire even more young people. We’re inviting businesses to sponsor the programme or to help shape the leaders of tomorrow by providing guidance and mentorship.
Outcomes & Impact
“Being part of the Leading Change programme has been an amazing experience. The Food Drive Friday is a fantastic programme not only aiming to drive up donations to the North Lakes Foodbank, but to educate their peers as to why people use foodbanks and alert young people to the problems of poverty and disadvantage.“ Cath Howard – Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick
✓Connect and develop essential skills in your future workforce
✓Gain exposure across multiple channels
✓Empower young people’s voices on issues that matter most to them
✓Help to influence positive change in your local communities
✓Seek young people’s views on some of today’s key challenges
✓Boost your company’s profile by supporting a cause that drives positive change
✓Attract and retain your future workplace leaders
✓Develop employees’ key leadership skills and increase their productivity and motivation
Volunteer as a business mentor for free.
Or help expand the programmes reach by funding schools / youth groups to take part across Cumbria.
ProjX
An innovative place-based work awareness programme that offers students the opportunity to work with a range of businesses, across a range of sectors and SMEs, on exciting multi-disciplinary projects. It gives an insight into the range of leadership roles and skills needed to deliver against any professional project whilst providing opportunities for businesses to seek young people’s ideas and gain new perspectives on key challenges.
Previously the programme was funded for schools in West Cumbria through Sellafield Ltd SIX (Social Impact Multiplied).
To sustain and expand the impact of the ProjX programme, we invite other organisations to join us in funding additional weeks and we are looking for professionals to support the delivery of various sessions to secondary students, helping to provide input for their project brief.
Outcomes & Impact
“I was very impressed with the development of the children in a short period of time. I have seen first hand in my own family that standard education does not fit every kid. I can see how this project gave the children a sense of purpose and achievement which isn’t present at normal lessons.“ Amaya Munoz – Student
✓Connect and develop essential skills in your future workforce
✓Gain exposure across multiple channels
✓Help more students gain valuable work experience
✓Raise the profile of your business
✓Attract and retain your future workplace leaders
✓Develop employees’ key leadership skills and increase their productivity and motivation
Volunteer to supporting the delivery of various sessions to secondary students, helping to provide input for their project brief.
Or help expand the reach by funding additional weeks.
Cumbria Future Generation
Cumbria Future Generation (CFG) is led by a steering group of young people and delivered by the Centre for Leadership Performance in collaboration with Enterprising Cumbria. It supports 16-30 year olds as they transition into employment or higher education, offering tailored support, opportunities, and resources to help them take their next steps with confidence. CFG was made possible by initial funding from Sellafield Six with additional outreach activity funded by Cumbria Community Foundation. It now continues to run through CforLP’s surplus revenue.
Promote your vacancies, news, and opportunities to young people by sharing them with us to feature on our website signposting service. Encourage your graduate and apprenticeship network to get involved and sign up, or take it a step further by sponsoring an event to showcase your organisation to our ever-growing network!
Outcomes & Impact
““I was extremely satisfied with the support from CforLP. They found me the perfectperson for the role. Chloe was a pleasure to work with, and it was great to hear her ideas and see things from a young person’s perspective. We will continue to support her in any way we can.” Elizabeth Atkinson – KAEFER
✓Support the development of essential skills and confidence in your early career workforce
✓Gain exposure across multiple channels
✓Network and develop longitudinal relationships with young people as they transition from school to further education or into the workplace
✓Raise awareness of your employment and education opportunities
✓Provide young people with the opportunity to build support networks
Send us your opportunities for free to promote on CFG’s opportunity platform – connecting 16–30 year olds with opportunities, resources, vacancies, apprenticeships, networking events, and more.
First Line Manager
Our First Line Manager programme aims to support people as they transition to a new management role by providing practical support to take action to increase engagement, motivation and performance within their teams. The programme runs over 4-5 months and has an initial 2-day workshop followed by 4 1-day workshops. It includes a mixture of workshops, reflection and guided action planning, with time between each workshop for delegates to start practicing what they have learned and creating new habits.
For new or soon-to-be team leaders, supervisors and managers.
“My work colleague and myself are new to the role of management. This programme has really helped us gather the tools to take into our workplace and implement these into our working day” Nicola Cairns – The Freedom Project
✓To be able to build positive relationships with their team members and have meaningful conversations with them. The long term effect of this is likely to improve motivation and engagement.
✓To have increased their confidence, particularly around having tricky conversations like giving feedback and performance improvement. The long term effect of this is likely to improve productivity.
✓To be able to address minor performance issues before they escalate to the HR team. The long term effect of this is to save time and other resources, resulting in increased profitability and productivity.
✓To be able to increase engagement and motivation their teams, with the long term effect of reducing employee turnover and improving productivity.
£985.00 + VAT
Leader 2 Leader
A transformational learning experience, focused on peer-to-peer learning leading to action, that drives business benefits and offers delegates a confidential and collaborative environment, promoting critical communication skills, and strategic thinking. It provides unique opportunities to network with other senior leaders from diverse business sectors, learning from their experiences and perspectives. This is a 4-5 month programme and has an initial 2-day workshop followed by 4 1-day workshops.
This programme is for leaders with at least three years of experience in their role, including business owners, managers, head teachers, directors and trustees.
“What attracted me to join the programme was the ability to reach out to different people. I saw the opportunity to liaise with other people, different businesses and understand their challenges and their solutions” Phillip Sharpe – Sellafield ltd
✓Develop the individual competence of your leaders in a unique and practical way
✓Apply new thinking to your key organisational and business issues
✓Introduce specific methods and frameworks for enhancing learning, practise observing and critiquing individual leadership styles
✓Promote collaborative working through mutual support, feedback and awareness of group dynamics
✓Give your organisation access to a strong and collaborative network
✓Gain exposure across multiple channels
£3,250.00 + VAT
Volunteering
As a valued strategic partner, take part in our FREE volunteer activities designed to boost engagement for your company and employees.
Our range of volunteering opportunities is constantly evolving.
Activities include supporting primary schools with topic work, delivering career talks, leading aspiration sessions, becoming reading champions, and helping shape the key skills needed for the future. We also support secondary schools, youth groups, and colleges by delivering inclusive leadership and work awareness programmes that empower young people.
These programmes aim to ignite ambition, raise aspirations, build self-belief and confidence, and develop leadership skills.
“The opportunity to check out of the sometimes stressful world of work and help out the little guys.
I got into it for a few reasons;
Duncan Naven, STEM Ambassador from Amentumn
As a valued strategic partner, take part in our FREE volunteer activities designed to boost engagement for your company and employees.
✓ Build communication, confidence, and leadership skills
✓ Boost employee engagement and create a positive work culture
✓ Develop home-grown talent to future-proof your business
✓ Connect with local schools and communities
✓ Fulfil your CSR and social value commitments in education, social mobility, and inclusion
Flexible commitments, full training, and ongoing support mean you can make an impact no matter your schedule or experience.
Volunteering is FREE!
If your organisation is interested in supporting more than one of our programmes, we can discuss a tailored discount to make it easier to get involved and maximise your impact.
Contact sarah.glass@cforlp.org.uk to discuss further
