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 - Autumn 2008

• Questions and Suggestions
  Your recycling questions answered plus WIN a compost bin and find out about bargain compost bins 
• Sport in Focus
  Activities for all ages and abilities 
• Arts in Focus
  Find out what events are planned for this autumn including Tullie House's film season
• What's On
  Our new extended guide to Carlisle events and activities, set out in easy to find categories: active; children and young people; creative; entertainment and factual
• Focus Feature
  Award winning Cumbrian artist Keith Tyson tells us about his new Tullie House exhibition 
• Focus on Access
  How to find out more about support and advice for disabled people
• Changing Carlisle
  Find out about the new flood defence work plus WIN a laptop as part of our WIFI promotion 
• Readers' Survey
  Send us your photographs of Carlisle
  plus Win a set top box to enhance your digital TV
• 3 Competitions - you can enter online!
  Compost Bin Prize
  Sands Centre Prize
  WiFi Laptop Prize

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