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 - Spring 2010 

• Questions and Suggestions
  New Priorities - Your questions answered Plus Suggest Your Best and WIN £50 of ASDA vouchers
• Focus Feature
  Find out about the Friends of Hammond’s Pond Group and how to get involved Plus how to make your garden an oasis for local wildlife
• What’s On
  Our Carlisle events listing and Tullie House’s Monday Alternative film guide
• News in Focus
  Events and activities, including Lakes Alive’s ‘Welcoming the Light’, Spring Show and the Easter Continental Market Plus how to access local services from Longtown Local Links
• Focus on Council Tax
  Advice on how to pay your Council Tax bill and get support if you are struggling to make your payments
• Readers' Survey
  Let us know your views and you could WIN £250 of Houghton Hall vouchers
• A Competition - you can enter online plus the Readers' Survey!

 Download Spring 2010 Edition of Carlisle Focus (654KB 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Please note that the printed version of Carlisle Focus, recently delivered to households, contains some outdated telephone numbers.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.