Latest News
11st August 2017
Carlisle Key Young Person of Year 2017
Jonny Dubka has been voted Young Person of the year by staff and volunteers for the great progress he has made this year and his continuous making of positive life choices. Jonny volunteers to attend events and talk of his experiences, recently ...
7th July 2017
PQASSO
We are happy to announce that our charity has just been awarded the PQASSO Quality Mark at Level 1.
PQASSO is built on eleven quality areas - the building blocks an organisation needs in order to be able to operate to a high ...
7th June 2017
20 Years of Carlisle Key
We celebrated 20 years of Carlisle Key last month at the Old Fire Station. We would like to thank everyone who came out and supported our event.
We would especially like to thank the bands who gave up their time for free to ...
6th April 2017
20 Years of Carlisle Key
In order to celebrate their 20th anniversary, the Cumbrian charity, Carlisle Key are hosting an evening of local performers at Carlisle's Old Fire Station on May 12th 2017. The charity helps vulnerable 16 to 25 year olds to gain the confidence, ...
1st March 2017
Britain's Toughest Long Distance Walk for Carlisle Key
We are looking for people to sponsor one of our amazing volunteers! They are completing a 200-mile walk from Fort William to Cape Wrath to raise money for Carlisle Key! The trail is completely unmarked and passes through extremely wild and ...
16th January 2017
New Year
We had a great year last year. We helped 204 young people who where homeless or at risk of homelessness. We have grown our services to included counselling for young people who need assistance with their mental health. We started more ...
19th December 2016
Christmas Gift Bags
We have received some great presents this year for all the young people we work with. The generosity of Carlisle has been amazing!
We have already given out 21 gift bags to young people and their children who would have had very ...
9th December 2016
Christmas Opening Times
Click to find out our opening times over Christmas
25th October 2016
Go Ape
We had a great time at Go Ape last week! Everyone who took part was very brave and overcame their fears, it was really great to see everyone working together to make it through the course. A huge THANK YOU to Asda Carlisle for their donation, without ...
12th September 2016
NCS Graduation
We had a great time at the NCS Graduation Ceremony on Thursday. We would like to thank everyone who joined the NCS programme and those who worked to raise money for Carlisle Key! The ongoing support we get from NCS ensures that we are able to run a ...
5th September 2016
NCS Fundraising 2016
We always get great teams of young people raising money for Carlisle Key every summer through NCS and this year they have outdone themselves. The first group raised money for us and went out and bought loads of house hold items and food for our ...
30th August 2016
CUFC Cheque Presentation
We would like to say a HUGE thank you to CUFC and the charity partners for raising £19,000 for the three charities. We have had a great year as CUFC charity partner and we wish the new seasons partners as much sucess.
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8th July 2016
CUFC Golf Day
We had a great time at the CUFC Golf Day. This was our last charity event with Carlisle United. We have had a great season with CUFC and their other charity partners and we are looking forward to find out how much money we have raised for all the ...
7th July 2016
Carlisle Youth Zone
We had a great time at Carlisle Youth Zone with the young people at Senior Club. We had long discussions about why people become homeless and how easy it is to find yourself in the same situation. Many people think that drug and alcohol use is the ...
24th June 2016
Open Day
We had a great time at our Open Day today! Lots of different organisations, churches and potential volunteers attended the event, including the Mayor of Carlisle.
We have had a great year and we wanted to share that with the local community. We ...
1st June 2016
Upperby Gala
We had a great time at Upperby Gala! We raised some money for a trip for the young people we work with and one of our wonderful volunteers got to meet Jolan from The Voice!
The face painting was amazing and our bear had lots of fun! We will ...
27th May 2016
Mayor's Charities
We are delighted to be chosen as one of the charities the new Carlisle City Mayor is supporting.
We are going to be organising some events so keep an eye out on our fundraising page :D
26th April 2016
Carlisle United
We have had lots of fun this season with CUFC! We won Charity Partner of the season in November 2015 and here are a few things we have been getting up to......
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15th March 2016
Shoe Boxes
Shoe boxes have been a popular feature of Carlisle Key’s Christmas activities for a number of years. However, whilst these have been very welcome, their collection, storage and distribution have quite an impact on our very limited staffing ...
4th March 2016
William Howard Amnesty International Group
A big THANK YOU to the Amnesty International Group @WHS_Brampton for their donation of backpacks for rough sleepers! http://ow.ly/Z3SD0
30th September 2015
Shoebox City Christmas Appeal
Christmas is fast approaching and we are once again running our Shoe Box City Christmas Appeal. Christmas can be a difficult time of year for lots of people, but especially within the group that we are working with. We work with young people aged ...
20th March 2015
Funding News
We are happy to announce that we have been awarded funding over 5 years from the Big Lottery. This means so much to the young people who attend our service and enables us to continue to support young people within the city.
4th March 2015
Donation Drop-Off Point
It's now easier than ever to donate items to Carlisle Key thanks to a new drop-off point at Carlisle Train Station. Our friends at Carlisle Mencap's Independence Studio have designed and created a bin where members of the public can drop off ...
23rd December 2014
Christmas 2014
All of us here at Carlisle Key would like to say thank you for the amazing response we have had to our Shoe Box City appeal. This year we once again asked members of the public to donate shoe boxes of Christmas gifts for us to give out to young ...
21st December 2014
Holiday Opening Hours 2014
Christmas and New Year Opening Hours
Monday 22nd - Open as usual (12:30 - 3:30pm) Tuesday 23rd - Open as usual (12:30 - 3:30pm) Wednesday 24th - CLOSED Thursday 25th - CLOSED Firday 26th - CLOSED
Monday 29th - Open as usual (12:30 - 3:30pm) ...
