Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch Association

Cumbria consists of six districts, Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden, and South Lakeland and has a population around 500,000 people. Cumbria is one of the most sparsely populated counties in England and is the second largest county by area. 

 

About Us

Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch Association represents the members and participants in Neighbourhood Watch in Cumbria. Neighbourhood Watch includes Farm Watch and other Watch Schemes. Cumbria Constabulary, Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria, Cumbria County Council, local government bodies and other public and voluntary sector organisations support Neighbourhood Watch in Cumbria.  The role of Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch Association (CNWA) is to represent the members and participants in Neighbourhood Watch throughout the County and provide help and support to achieve its purpose, aims and objectives. In doing so CNWA works in partnership with others in leading, directing, planning and supporting the future development of Neighbourhood Watch in Cumbria.  

The Association is governed by a Board of Directors and Trustees. all of whom give their time voluntarily. A list of current Board members is listed in this document. 

The Honorary President of the Association is the High Sheriff of Cumbria.Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch Association represents the members and participants in Neighbourhood Watch in the County and provides support and services which help it achieve its purpose, aims and objectives.

 

They work in partnership with others in leading, directing, planning and supporting the future development of Neighbourhood Watch in Cumbria.

Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch has played a significant role in the voluntary work supporting our Communities in the Emergency Responses, supporting the Emergency Services and Local Authorities.

 

 

Schemes within Cumbria

A Neighbourhood Watch scheme can be set up in a street, group of streets, a block of flats, across a village, in a rural area or in partnership with a Residents Association; there are no hard and fast rules. What works for you will be fine with us, but we suggest that you try to keep it local and engage with neighbours and other local residents. It's a good way of meeting people and making new friends!

You can easily check if there is an existing Neighbourhood Watch scheme nearby by entering your postcode "find my local NW" tab above.  If you would like to start a new Neighbourhood Watch scheme then click on JOIN at the top of this page.

A Neighbourhood Watch scheme is usually set up by a person who we call a Coordinator and they are just a local point of contact. Their main role is to encourage local people to join the scheme, and then to forward key messages to the scheme members. Those messages will be sent to the Coordinator by trusted agencies such as Neighbourhood Watch and the local police, amongst others. Increasingly, members can also receive messages direct, by signing themselves onto our system. There may be some members without E-mail access – where possible we hope that Coordinatorwill be able to keep them up to date by passing on important information, perhaps by phone or by printing it out and popping it through their letterbox.

Some schemes may wish to have more than one Coordinator, or to have one or more deputies, and we welcome this. 

If you choose to register your details with us then YOU will be in control of who can send you information, what sort of messages you would like to receive, and even which local areas you would like to receive messages about. When you register with us you can choose or will be sent a user name and password, and you can change your password whenever you wish.

Additional information for co-ordinators and deputies.  Existing schemes are progressively being mapped in our systems, and can be found by entering your postcode in the box above, or by visiting. Similarly, when a new scheme is set up we will help you to map it, to encourage new members to join.

 

 

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