Cumbria Floods Appeal

An appeal has been launched by the Cumbria Community Foundation to help residents and local businesses who are victims of the floods.

Details can be found be logging on to Cumbria Community Foundation's website www.cumbriafoundation.org or by calling the dedicated phone line 01900 820827.

Cumbria County Council has promised £50,000 and Allerdale Borough Council £25,000.

The leader of Allerdale council, Cllr Tim Heslop, told the News and Star: “We are committed to working together with all agencies on the massive recovery effort that we face in getting the county back onto its feet.

“As well as getting people back into their homes, the future of many small businesses and how we can help to ensure their survival is one of our top priorities.

“We also express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who is working tremendously hard to help others in these exceptionally difficult circumstances - especially those who are coming to terms with their own loss.”

There are buckets collecting donations for the appeal in many of the shops in Cumbrian towns such as Whitehaven and Workington, and from today all the takings of the cafe at St Nicolas's in Lowther Street Whitehaven will go to the appeal.

Alternatively Anyone who wants to donate cash can visit any branch of the Cumberland Building Society and the Furness Building Society, or cheques made payable to the Cumbria Community Foundation can be sent to CCF, Dovenby Hall, Cockermouth, Cumbria, CA13 0PN.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I did not expect to see, when searching for a donation site to the Cumbrian floods, a Tory using Cumbria's flood misfortune to try to gain votes for his party.
Shame on you.
3:07 pm
Jane said…
Anonymous. This is hardly fair. Senior Conservatives have visited this area. Nick Herbert and David Cameron have been in the Cockermouth and Workington area, but in order not to make political capital Prospective Parliamentary Candidates and their campaign teams were not invited. The minister and the Leader of the Opposition have not sought media publicity. This is to their credit.

The blog is merely informative. Cllr. Whiteside is entitled, as a member of this community to provide information to visitors to this site about where to make donations.

Out of respect for PC Barker's family and the residents who lost property in the disaster, no political bloggs have have been placed on this site.

This is a community issue and the Conservatives are not making a party political issue of it
1:15 am
Chris Whiteside said…
I have suspended party political comment on this blog - defined as anything attacking or criticising someone because they support a different political perspective - until the end of November because this is a time for the communities of Cumbria to stand united.

I published the details of the appeal in the post above, and have since repeated them, in the hope that this would encourage people of all parties and none to support the appeal and make it easier to do so, and for no other reason.

I find it sad that "Anonymous" chose to misinterpret this. He is the person who is making a cheap attempt to score party political points, not me.

I have decided that, just as I have not included any partisan material in blog posts since the start of the floods, and will not do so before at the earliest the end of November, I am not going to allow any political attacks, from any quarter, to be posted as comments either during the same period.

Any further comments along the lines of the post by "Anonymous" above, or any other cheap attacks whoever they come from and whoever they are aimed at, will be removed.
12:47 am
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