Carlisle Focus

Carlisle Focus is the City Council’s quarterly residents magazine published every Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter 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 2008

• Cultural Carlisle
  Find out what what cultural events are on offer this Summer
• Children and young people
  Summer activities to keep youngsters active and creative 
• Summer events
  Sample some of this season's up and coming events and exhibitions - win four Carlisle Live tickets
• Fighting Fly Tipping
  An update on the campaign to combat fly-tipping and how to recycle bulky household waste 
• At your service
  How to plan ahead for an emergency plus how to contact your City Councilor 
• Cleaner, Greener and Safer
  Find out about events at Talkin Tarn and how local volunteers are providing a helping hand for our local parks 
• Changing Carlisle
  An update on city centre plans and proposals for a new University of Cumbria headquarters 
• City Snaps
  Send us your photographs of Carlisle
  plus Win a shop@panasonic digital camera   - you can enter online
• Events
  What’s on this Summer

 Download Summer 2008 Edition of Carlisle Focus (1.9Mb PDF)