Carlisle Focus

Carlisle Focus is the City Council’s residents magazine and includes information about City Council services, local events and partnership initiatives. Every edition also includes a local events listing, council meeting dates, city councillor contact details and Customer Contact Centre opening times and contact details.

In 2007, Carlisle Focus won the Silver Award for "Best Newspaper or Magazine", Chartered Institute of Public Relations (North West) and was a finalist for "Magazine of the Year" at the British Association of Communicators in Business (Northern Region).

Current issue - Summer/Autumn 2010 

• Questions and Suggestions
  Your 'business support' questions answered Plus Suggest Your Best and WIN a Made in Cumbria Hamper
• Children and Young People
  Find out what schemes and events are available for children and young people Plus WIN an iPod shuffle
• Focus Feature
  How local residents can save money by signing up to discount energy saving schemes
• Love Parks
  A packed programme of open air events in local parks and green spaces Plus flicks in Bitts Park and other FREE activities
• What’s On
  Our extended Carlisle events listing. Including: music, community exhibitions and the Monday Alternative film guide
• Upcoming Events
  Up and coming events out and about in Carlisle Plus WIN tickets to Theater Titanick
• Big Tidy Up
  Community clear up campaigns in local Carlisle areas Plus how to get involved
• News in Focus
  Find out about student grants and how to get help with 'odd jobs' in your home 
• Readers' Survey
  Let us know your views and you could WIN a £250 Tesco voucher 
• 3 Competitions - you can enter online plus the Readers' Survey!

 Download Summer/Autumn 2010 Edition of Carlisle Focus (2.75MB PDF)

Please note that the printed version of Carlisle Focus, recently delivered to households, contains some outdated telephone numbers. The A-Z of Services shown on page 16 of the Spring 2010 edition lists incorrect telephones numbers for some of the city’s Community Centres. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. Our online version contains the correct telephone numbers.