Entries in this section comprise only collections of society and organization records attributed with the society reference collection code in the Cumbria Archive Centres (BDSO for Barrow, DSO for Carlisle, WDSO for Kendal and YDSO for Whitehaven). Where records of societies have been deposited as part of other collections of records, for example family, solicitors' or miscellaneous records, details can be accessed through the 'free text' search function of the online catalogue.
Links to online catalogues of holdings:
Societies and Organizations: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWY
A
Abbeytown Women's Institute
Affiliated Association of Cumberland and Westmorland (Cumbria)
Age Concern Millom and District
Ainstable Women's Institute
Aircrew Association; Cumbria Branch
Air Training Corps 1127 (Kendal) Squadron
Aldingham Working Men's Club (Scales Reading Room)
Allithwaite Women's Institute
Allonby Project 2000
Allonby Women's Institute
Alston Literary Institute and News Room
Alston Moor Historical Society
Alston Town Hall Trustees'
Alston Women's Institute
Amalgamated Engineering Union, Workington Branch
Amalgamated Engineering Union: Barrow District
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Workington branch
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Workington
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Joiners and Carpenters, Barrow branch
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Whitehaven branch
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Workington branch
Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers, Workington Branch
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Workington branch
Ambleside and District Camera Club
Ambleside and District Choral Society
Ambleside and District Conservative Club
Ambleside and District Golf Club
Ambleside and District United Nations Association
Ambleside Association for the Prosecution of Felons
Ambleside Civic Trust
Ambleside Deanery Mothers' Union
Ambleside Fire Brigade
Ambleside Old Time Dance Club
Ambleside Oral History Group
Ancient Order of Foresters, Court 697 Royal Windermere
Ancient Order of Foresters, Court Inglewood, 564, Penrith
Ancient Order of Foresters, Westmorland District
Anthorn Women's Institute
AOC Archaeology Group (records at Barrow Archives)
AOC Archaeology Group (records at Kendal Archives)
Appleby Choral Union
Appleby Deanery Mothers' Union
Appleby Engineering Society
Appleby Golf Club
Appleby Record Society
Appleby Women's Institute
Appleby-in-Westmorland Society
Archaeological Practice Ltd.
Archaeological Services Durham University
Arlecdon and Frizington Amenities and Development Committee
Armathwaite Angling Club
Armathwaite Indoor Bowling Club
Armathwaite Women's Institute
Armstrong Clan Association
Arnside Archive
Arnside Branch Royal British Legion
Arnside Chess Club
Arnside Educational Institute
Arnside Knott Women's Institute
Arnside Link Road Objection Committee
Arnside Toc H
Arnside Tuesday Club
Arnside Village Society
Arnside Women's Institute
Aspatria Curling Club
Aspatria Reading and Recreation Company Ltd.
Aspatria Rugby Club
Association of District Nurses, North Lancashire and Westmorland Branch
B
B4RN for Casterton
Bampton Women's Institute
Barbon and Middleton Over-Sixties Committee
Barbon Women's Institute
Bardsea Women's Institute
Baggrow and Blennerhassett Women's Institute
Barrow Amateur Athletics Association (page 1)
Barrow Amateur Athletics Association (page 2)
Barrow and Dalton Constituency Labour Party
Barrow and District Association of Engineers
Barrow and District Multiple Sclerosis Society
Barrow and Districts Society for the Blind
Barrow and Furness Youth Cricket League
Barrow-in-Furness District Scout Association
Barrow Arts Club
Barrow British Workman's Institute (later the Kill One)
Barrow Business and Professional Women's Club
Barrow Citizens Advice Bureau
Barrow Conservative Association
Barrow Friendly Societies Federation
Barrow Head Teachers' Association
Barrow Intimate Opera Society
Barrow Madrigal Society
Barrow Male Voice Choir
Barrow Manx Society
Barrow Mountaineering and Ski Club
Barrow Naturalists Field Club and Photographic Society
Barrow Schools Football Association
Barrow Standing Conference On Women's Organisations.
Barrow Trades Council
Barrow Transport Group
Barrow Working Men's Club
Barrow Yacht Club (later The Barrow Club)
16th Barrow-In-Furness (St. Mary of Furness) Scout Group
Barrow-In-Furness and District Teachers' Association
Barrow-in-Furness Auxiliary Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society
Barrow-in-Furness Civic and Local History Society
Barrow-in-Furness Branch of the Typographical Association
Barrow-in-Furness Women's Institute
Beacon Lodge, No 6202, Penrith
Beckermet Women's Institute
Bective Lodge of Freemasons, No 1532, Carlisle
Beetham Sports
Beetham Women's Institute
Belle View Women's Institute
Belted Will Lodge, No 8979, Penrith
Bewcastle Heritage Society
Bewcastle Bailey Women's Institute
Bewcastle Park Women's Institute
Bible Society's North Cumbria Area Council
Blackford Women's Institute
Blawith and Nibthwaite Village Hall Committee
Boilermakers' Unions, Workington Branch
Bolton, Ireby and Uldale Mothers' Union
Bolton Memorial Hall Committee
Bolton Women's Institute (records at Carlisle Archives)
Bolton Women's Institute (records at Kendal Archives)
Border Counties Branch of the British Medical Association
Border Railway Society
Borrow Beck Action Group
Borrowdale Institute
Borrowdale Women's Institute
Bothel and Kirkland Women's Institute
Bowness-on-Solway Women's Institute
Braithwaite Fold Protection Group
Brampton and District Christian Council
Brampton and District Motor Club
Brampton Country Market
Brampton Coursing Club
Brampton Deanery Mothers Union
Brampton Ladies' Golf Club
Brampton, Longtown and Border Ladies' Circle
Brampton Mothers' Club
Brampton Players
Brampton Show
Brampton Women's Institute (page 1)
Brampton Women's Institute (page 2)
Bransty British Legion Club, Limited
Bransty Labour Party
Brathay Women's Institute
Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Bridekirk Mothers' Union
Bridgefoot Women's Institute
Brigantia Archaeological Practice
Brigham Women's Institute
Brigsteer Women's Institute
British and Foreign Bible Society (Penrith Group)
British and Foreign Bible Society: Kendal Auxiliary
British Association of the Hard of Hearing
British Drama League (Cumberland County Council Section)
British Federation of Women Graduates
British Korean Veterans Association - Cumbria Branch
British Legion Armathwaite and Ainstable Branch
British Legion, Dalston branch
British Legion, Ulverston
British Legion: Carlisle Branch
British Records Association
British Red Cross Society
British Soviet Unity Committee (Carlisle Branch)
British Sub-Aqua Club: Furness Branch
Bromfield Women's Institute
Brough and Brough Sowerby Women's Institute
Brough Mothers' Union
Broughton-In-Furness Nursing Association
Broughton Moor Women's Institute
Buccleuch Amateur Rowing Club Barrow-In-Furness
Builders' Trades Unions, Workington branches
Burgh Marsh Management Committee
Burgh-by-Sands Women's Institute
Burma Star Association (Carlisle and District Branch)
Burneside and District Heritage Group
Burneside Bowling Club
Burneside Choral Society
Burneside Cricket Club
Burneside Football Club
Burneside Institute
Burneside Mothers' Union
Burneside Women's Institute
Burneside Young Wives' Group
Burneside Youth Club
Burton in Kendal Mothers' Union
Burton in Kendal Women's Institute
Burton Old Age Pensioners Association
C
Caldbeck Women's Institute
Caldbeck Young Farmers' Club
Calderbridge and Ponsonby Women's Institute
Calthwaite Cricket Club
Calthwaite Church and Village History Project
Calthwaite Tennis Club
Camerton Women's Institute
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Kendal Branch
Campaign to Protect Rural England, Peak District and South Yorkshire
Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)
Capita Symonds - Heritage Management Services
Cargo and Stainton Women's Institute
Carliol Choir
7th Carlisle (Silloth) Boy Scouts
Carlisle Afternoon Townswomen's Guild
Carlisle and Border Art Society
Carlisle and District Boy Scouts Association
Carlisle and District Butchers' Association
Carlisle and District Civic Trust
Carlisle and District Federation of The Church of England Men's Society
Carlisle and District Footpath Preservation Society
Carlisle and District St John Ambulance
Carlisle and District Table Tennis Association
Carlisle and District Welsh Society
Carlisle Badminton Club
Carlisle Camera Club
Carlisle Charity Organisation Society
Carlisle Choral Society
Carlisle Christian Welfare Association
Carlisle City Council Labour Party Group
Carlisle City Preservation Society
Carlisle Conservative Association
Carlisle Deanery Mothers Union
Carlisle Diocese Mothers' Union
Carlisle Freemasons, Border City Lodge
Carlisle Golf Club
Carlisle High School Guild
Carlisle Labour Club
Carlisle Labour Party (page 1)
Carlisle Labour Party (page 2)
Carlisle Law Society Library
Carlisle Medical Society
Carlisle Musical Society
Carlisle Natural History Society
Carlisle Operatic Society
Carlisle Parliament
Carlisle Rugby Union Football Club
Carlisle Shoemakers' (Cordwainers') Guild
Carlisle Sick Poor Fund
Carlisle Trades Council and Labour Party
Carlisle Veterans' Association
Carlisle West End Temperance Society
Cartmel Agricultural Society
Cartmel Choral Society
Cartmel Deanery and Allithwaite Mothers Union
Cartmel Fell Women's Institute
Cartmel Village Society
Cartmel Women's Institute
Casterton Men's Club
Casterton Miniature Rifle Club
Casterton Women's Institute
Castle Carrock Women's Institute
Castletown Social Activities Committee
Cathedral and Church Shops Society
Cavendish and Chiswick Streets Residents' Association
Cavendish Tennis Club
Cemetery Cottages Working Men's Club and Institute
Chapter of Regularity, No 339, Penrith
Chartered Insurance Institute, Carlisle
Christians Together in Kentdale - Millennium Action Group
Christina Fell Trust, Ulverston
Churches Together in Dalton-in-Furness
Church of England Men's Society (Brampton Deanery Branch)
Citizens Advice Bureau, Keswick
City of Carlisle Swimming Club
Civil Service Retirement Fellowship, Penrith Group
Cleator Moor Scout Group
Cleator and Trumpet Terrace War Comforts Fund
Cleator Women's Institute
Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union
Cliburn Women's Institute
Clifton Women's Institute
Club Francais, Kendal
Cockermouth Book Club
Cockermouth Christy Minstrel Troupe
Cockermouth Civic Trust
Cockermouth Cricket Club
Cockermouth Female Society
Cockermouth Heritage Group (at Carlisle Archives)
Cockermouth Heritage Group (at Whitehaven Archives)
Cockermouth Golf Club
Cockermouth Harmonic Society
Cockermouth Mothers' Union
Cockermouth Probus Club
Cockermouth Swimming Pool Association
Colton and Oxen Park Women's Institute
Coniston Women's Institute
Copeland Rail Users Group
Corney History Group
Cotehill Women's Institute
Council for British Archaeology (North)
County and Border Club, Carlisle
County Club, Barrow
Craft North (dissolved 1990 reformed as Guild of Lakeland Craftsmen)
Crake Valley Group Women's Institute
Croglin Women's Institute
Crook Women's Institute
Crook Young Farmers' Club
Crosby Garrett Women's Institute
Crosby-on-Eden Parish Hall
Crosby Ravensworth and Maulds Meaburn Women's Institute
Crosby Ravensworth Village Hall
Crosby Villa Women's Institute
Crosscrake and District Open Flower Show
Crosscrake Women's Institute
Crosthwaite Bowling Club
Crosthwaite Men's Club
Crosthwaite Mothers' Union
Crosthwaite Reading Room
Cumberland Agricultural Society
Cumberland Bowling Association
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (records at Carlisle Archives)
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (records at Whitehaven Archives)
Cumberland and Westmorland Association of Boys' Clubs
Cumberland and Westmorland Association of Edinburgh and District
Cumberland and Westmorland Assocoation of Tyneside
Cumberland and Westmorland Federation of Trades Councils
Cumberland and Westmorland Financial Officers' Association
Cumberland and Westmorland Spastics Society
Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling Association
Cumberland County Club, Lowther Street, Carlisle
Cumberland County Cricket Club (records at Carlisle Archives)
Cumberland County Cricket Club (records at Kendal Archives)
Cumberland Development Council
Cumberland District Women's Co-operative Guild
Cumberland Embroiderers' Guild
Cumberland Federation of Labour Parties
Cumberland Federation of Townswomen's Guilds
Cumberland Federation of Young Farmers Clubs
Cumberland Geological Society
Cumberland Iron Masters' Association
Cumberland Labour Women's Advisory Council
Cumberland Lawn Tennis Tournament
Cumberland Markets
Cumberland Nature Club
Cumberland Nursing Association
Cumberland Rugby League
Cumberland Scripture Readers Trust
Cumberland Sporting Car Club Ltd
Cumberland Women's Voluntary Service
Cumbria (Cumberland) Rural Choirs
Cumbria Alcohol and Drug Advisory Service (CADAS)
Cumbria Amateur Swimming Association
Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society
Cumbria Arts and Disability Festival
Cumbria Association for Rural Education (CARE)
Cumbria Beekeepers' Association, Carlisle Branch
Cumbria Chess Association
Cumbria County Hockey Umpires Association
Cumbria County Scout Council
Cumbria County Women's Hockey Association
Cumbria Community Development Project, Cleator Moor
Cumbria Craft Guild
Cumbria Cricket Association
Cumbria Decorative and Fine Arts Society
Cumbria Documents Society
Cumbria Family History Society
Cumbria Fells and Dales Leader +
Cumbria Hockey Association
Cumbria Industrial History Society (records held at Carlisle Archives)
Cumbria Industrial History Society (records held at Kendal Archives)
Cumbria Law Centre
Cumbrian Lawn Tennis Association
Cumbria Literary Society
Cumbria Local History Federation
Cumbria Long Distance Walking Association (Cumbria LDWA)
Cumbria Marketing Initiative
Cumbria Men's Hockey Association
Cumbria Railways Association
Cumbria Rugby Union (page 1)
Cumbria Rugby Union (page 2)
Cumbria Schools' Cricket Association
Cumbria Scout Association
Cumbria Scouts
Cumbria Transport Society
Cumbria Union of Golf Club
Cumbria Vernacular Buildings Group (CVBG)
Cumbria Western Lakes and Coast Tourism Trade Association
Cumbria Wildlife Trust (page 1)
Cumbria-Cumberland Federation of Women's Institutes (records at Carlisle Archives)
Cumbrian Railways Association (records at Barrow Archives)
Cumbrian Railways Association (records at Carlisle Archives)
Cumbrian Railways Association (records at Kendal Archives)
Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment (CORE) (records at Barrow Archives)
Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment (CORE) (records at Carlisle Archives)
Cumbrians for Peace
Cumbria's Museum of Military Life
Cumbria's Top 50 Trees Project
Cumbria-Westmorland Federation of Women's Institutes (records at Barrow Archives)
Cumbria-Westmorland Federation of Women's Institutes (records at Kendal Archives)
Cumbria Wildlife Trust (page 2)
Cumbria Wildlife Trust: Clints Quarry, Egremont
Cumbria Wildlife Trust: South Walney Nature Reserve
Cumdivock Women's Institute
Cumwhinton Heritage Group
Cumwhinton Women's Institute
Cumwhitton Women's Institute
Currock Community Association (Currock House)
D
Dacre Hall
Dalston Women's Institute
Dalston, Thursby, Cummersdale and Curthwaite Branch of the Cumberland Nursing Association (from 1925 known as the Dalston and Cummersdale District Nursing Association)
Dalton and District Gardening Club and Garden Coordinating Group
Dalton Castle
Dalton Cricket Club
Dalton Nursing Association
Dalton-In-Furness Bone Club
Dalton-in-Furness Book Club
Dalton-in-Furness Christian Council
Dalton-In-Furness Local History Society
Dalton-in-Furness Townswomen's Guild
Dalton-In-Furness Young Men's Christian Association
Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club
Dean Mothers' Union
Dean Women's Institute
Dearham Women's Institute
Dent, Sedbergh and Garsdale Oral History Society
Dentdale Women's Institute
Derwent Railway Society
Derwent Water Angling Association
Disabled Drivers' Association - Upland Group
Disabled Missionaries Trust
Distington Boys' Club
Distington Local History Society
Distington Women's Institute
Dovenby Women's Institute
Drigg Women's Institute
Duddon Estuary Partnership
Dufton Women's Institute
Durranhill YMCA
E
Eaglesfield and Mosser Women's Institute
Eamont Bridge Women's Institute
East of Eden Group of Women's Institutes
Eden Carers
Eden Field Club
Eden Heritage Archaeology and Heritage Services at Kendal, Barrow and Whitehaven Archives
Eden Millenium Festival
Eden Valley Cricket League
Edenside Bowling Club
Egremont Fairtrade Group
Egremont Rotary Club
Egremont Rugby Union Football Club
Egremont Townswomen's Guild
Egton-cum-Newland Women's Institute
Ehen Group of Women's Institutes (formerly West Cumberland Group of Women's Institutes)
Electrical Association for Women; Carlisle branch
Elizabethan Players
English Bowls Coaching Scheme Cumbria
English Lake District Advertising Federation
English Place Name Society
Ennerdale and Kinniside Women's Institute
Eskdale and Boot Women's Institute
Evergreen Club, Seascale
Eversley Choral Union
F
Farleton and District Ploughing and Hedging Association
Federation of Labour Women, Workington Constituency
Federation of Women's Institutes, Lancashire
Fell and Rock Climbing Club
Fell Pony Society
Fellside (Hallbankgate) Billiard League
Fletchertown Women's Institute
Flimby Male Voice Choir
Flimby Women's Institute
Folk Dance Society
Foxfield Women's Institute
Friends of Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Friends of Brampton War Memorial Hospital
Friends of Coronation Garden, Penrith
Friends of Cumbria Archives Service (FOCAS)
Friends of Egremont Castle Association
Friends of Greengarth
Friends of Keswick Theatre
Friends of St Michael's (Carlisle) Churchyard
Friends of the Earth South Lakeland Group
Friends of Haverlands Green, Kirkbampton, Carlisle
Friends of the Lake District (records at Carlisle Archives)
Friends of the Lake District (records at Kendal Archives)
Friends of Whitehaven Museum
Friends of Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
Frizington Silver Band
Frizington Women's Institute
Furness Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society
Furness Arts Club
Furness Business Initiative
Furness Creatives
Furness District Federation of Owner-Occupier Associations
Furness Model Railway Club
Furness Mountain Search Team
Furness Mystery Plays 1988
G
Gamblesby Women's Institute
Garlands Cricket Club
Garrigill Women's Institute
Garth Row and Skelsmergh Women's Institute
Gatesgarth Club
Gatesgill Women's Institute
Gideons International Cumbria West Branch
Gilcrux Women's Institute
Girlguiding Barrow Division
Girlguiding Cumbria North
Girlguiding Cumbria South
Girls' Friendly Society, Cockermouth
Girls' Training Corps, Carlisle Administrative Committee
Glenridding Communal Television Service
Gosforth Anglers' Club
Gosforth Women's Institute
Grange and District Peace Group
Grange and District Women's Institute Market
Grange Chess Circle
Grange Natural History Society
Grange-over-Sands and District Volunteer Fire Brigade
Grange-over-Sands Civic Society
Grange-over-Sands Townswomen's Guild
Grange Working Men's Institute
Grayrigg Women's Institute
Great Clifton Women's Institute
Great Corby Village Hall
Great Corby Women's Institute
Great Salkeld Women's Institute
Great Strickland Parish Institute
Great Strickland Thursday Club
Great Strickland Women's Institute
Green Room Club, West Walls, Carlisle
Greenlane Archaeology Ltd (records at Barrow Archives)
Greenlane Archaeology Ltd (records at Carlisle Archives)
Greenlane Archaeology Ltd (records at Kendal Archives)
Greystoke 2000
Greystoke Women's Institute
H
Hadrian Group of Women's Institutes
Harrington Local History Society
1st Haverigg (St Luke's) Scout Groups
Hawkshead and Outgate Women's Institute
Hayton Women's Institute (and also DSO 465 )
Hayton and Mealo Women's Institute
Heads Nook Women's Institute - contact Carlisle Archives
Helvellyn Lodge, No 8979, Penrith
Heron Corn Mill Trust
Heron Hill and Valley Drive Residents' Association
Hesket and District Young Farmers Club
Hesket-in-the-Forest Local History Society
Hesket-in-the-Forest Women's Institute
Hesket Newmarket Village Millennium Project
Hethersgill Women's Institute
Heversham Women's Institute
High Wray Village Club/Reading Room
Hill-in-Millom Women's Institute
Hindpool, Central and Furness Owner Occupiers Association
Historical Association: Cumbria Branch
History of Kirkby Group, Kirkby Ireleth
Hodbarrow Action Group
Holiday Fellowship, West Cumbria Local Group
Holker Cricket Club
Holme and District Local History Society
Holme Athletic Sports
Holme Children's Treat Fund
Holme Cricket Club
Holme St Cuthbert Women's Institute
Holme Women's Institute
Holmrook and District Athletic Sports
Holmrook Reading Room and Library
Holmrook Residents' Association
Hospice For Furness: Ulverston Support Group
Houghton Village Echo
Hound Trail Association
Howgill Women's Institute
Hutton Roof Navvies Reading Room
Hutton Roof Women's Institute
I
IBIS Cricket Club, Kendal
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society, Kendal District
Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society (records at Carlisle Archives)
Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society (records at Whitehaven Archives)
Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society, Dalton-in-Furness
Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society, Loyal Beacon Lodge Penrith
Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society, Loyal Eden Lodges
Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society, St.Mary's Lodge, Cartmel and Loyal Lindale Lodge
Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity Friendly Society, Windermere Lodge
Inner Wheel Club of Appleby
Inner Wheel Club of Carlisle
Inner Wheel Club Maryport
Inner Wheel of Ulverston
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, South Cumbria Area
International Council of Women
Involved in Carlisle (formerly Carlisle Council for Voluntary Service)
Ireby Women's Institute
Ireleth Women's Institute
Irthing Vale Wanderers Cricket Club
Isel Ecclesiastical Parish Millennium Book
Isel Women's Institute
J
Joint League of Friends of West Cumberland Hospital
K
K Fellfarers
K Shoes Male Voice Choir
Kearstwick Women's Institute
Kells and District Community and Miners' Welfare Centre
Kells Welfare Bowling Club
Kendal Afternoon Townswomen's Guild
Kendal Amateur Dramatic Society
Kendal Amateur Operatic Society
Kendal Amateur Swimming Club
Kendal and District Bowling League
Kendal and District Brotherly Society
Kendal and District Footpaths Society
Kendal and District Guild of Service (formerly the Charity Organisation Society)
Kendal and District Housing Society Ltd
Kendal and District Trades Council
Kendal Art Society
Kendal Bowmen
Kendal Castle Women's Institute
Kendal Chamber of Commerce
Kendal Chamber of Trade
Kendal Choral Society
Kendal Civic Society
Kendal Community Theatre Passion Play
Kendal Cricket Club
Kendal Ecumenical Group
Kendal Evening Townswomen's Guild
Kendal Friendly Societies' Gala Committee
Kendal History Circle
Kendal Inner Wheel Club
Kendal Junior Debating Club
Kendal Ladies' Hockey Club (1898-1910)
Kendal Lawn Tennis Club
Kendal Literary and Scientific Institution
Kendal Literary Association
Kendal Midday Concert Club
Kendal Museum Support Group
Kendal Natural History Society
Kendal Oral History Society - (records at Barrow Archives)
Kendal Parish Church Men's Club
Kendal Parr Women's Institute
Kendal Photographic Society
Kendal Probus Club
Kendal Romney Women's Insitute
Kendal Rugby Union Football Club
Kendal Stick and Wheel Club
Kendal Strickland Women's Institute
Kendal Toc H
Kendal Women's Institute Market Committee
Kendal Working Men's Association
Kentdale Group of Women's Institutes
Kentdale Social Centre
Kentmere Institute
Kentmere Women's Institute
Kentside Probus Club
Keswick Convention
Keswick Flower Club
Keswick History Group
Keswick Inner Wheel
Keswick Lecture Society
Keswick Literary and Scientific Society
Keswick Mountaineering Club
Keswick Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Society
Keswick Senior Citizens Club
Keswick Social Circle
Keswick Unemployment Committee
Killington Women's Institute
Kings Meaburn Women's Institute
Kingstown and Moorville Women's Institute
Kirkandrews-on-Eden and District Women's Institute
Kirkby Kendal Women's Institute
Kirkby Lonsdale and District Gardening Association
Kirkby Lonsdale Art, Technical and Handicraft Classes
Kirkby Lonsdale Choral Society
Kirkby Lonsdale Conservative Club
Kirkby Lonsdale Fellowship
Kirkby Lonsdale Indoor Bowling Club
Kirkby Lonsdale Village Institute
Kirkby Lonsdale Women's Institute
Kirkby Stephen and District Boys' Club
Kirkby Stephen Choral Society
Kirkby Stephen Liberal Association
Kirkby Stephen Mothers' Union/ St.Stephen's Guild
Kirkby Stephen Nursing Association
Kirkby Stephen Parish Church Women's Help Society
Kirkby Stephen Temperance Trust
Kirkby Stephen United Temperance Society and Band of Hope
Kirkby Stephen Women's Institute
Kirkby Thore Women's Institute
Kirkby-In-Furness Community Centre
Kirkby-in-Furness Equitable Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd
Kirkby-in-Furness Soldiers Welfare Social Club
Kirkby-In-Furness Women's Institute
Kirkland and Blencarn Women's Institute
Kirklinton and District Women's Institute
Knock Women's Institute
L
Lake District Defense Society and Thirlmere Defence Society
Lake District Mountain Accident Association
Lake District Mountain Trial Association
Lake District Summer Music Festival
Lakeland Cross Country Ski Club
Lakeland Dialect Society (records at Kendal Archives)
Lakeland Dialect Society (records at Carlisle Archives)
Lakeland Rose Show
Lakeland Rose Show and Great Garden and Countryside Festival
Lakeland Sinfonia Concert Society
Lakeside Jubilee Institute, Finsthwaite
Lamplugh Friendly Society
Lanercost Women's Institute
Langdale Women's Institute
Langdales Society
Lanwathby Parochial Foundation and Langwathby Poor Charity
Lazonby History Society
Leadgate Women's Institute
League of Friends of Brampton War Memorial Cottage Hospital
League of Friends of Carleton Clinic
League of Friends of Carlisle Hospitals
League of Nations Association (Ambleside Branch)
League of Nations Union/United Nations Association
Leasgill Library and Heversham Athenaeum.
Leece and District Tontine Society
Lees Hill Women's Institute
Levens Institute
Levens Local History Research Group
Levens Women's Institute
Lindale in Cartmel Harvest Home Committee
Lindale-In-Cartmel Women's Institute
Lindal-In-Furness Women's Institute
Linstock Women's Institute
Lisdoonie Club/Furness Social Club, Barrow
Lithuania Link Charity
Lodge of Unanimity, No 339, Penrith
London County Westminster and Parr's Bank Guild
Long Marton Women's Institute
Longtown Toc H
Longtown Women's Institute
Lonsdale with Westmorland Federation of Townswomen's Guilds
Lord Street Working Men's Reading Room/North Eastern Railway Literary and Benevolent Institution, Carlisle
Lorton Women's Institute
Lower Holker Women's Institute
Lowes Court Gallery Association, Egremont
Loweswater Women's Institute
Lowther and District Men's Society
Lowther Women's Institute
Lunesdale Agricultural Society
Lunesdale and District Hedging and Walling Association
Lune Valley Women's Institute
Lupton Village Hall Committee
Lupton Women's Institute
Lyth Valley Group of Women's Institutes
M
Mallerstang Millennium Project
Mallerstang Women's Institute
Margaret Sewell Old Girls Guild
Mary Grave Trust
Mary Wakefield Westmorland Music Festival
Maryport 2000
Maryport Day Service
Maryport Education Settlement ('The Settlement')
Maryport Girls' Friendly Society
Maryport Golf Club
Maryport Heritage Trust
Maryport Natural History Society
Maryport Nursing Association
Maryport Trades Council
Materials Society of Cumbria
Matterdale Historical and Archaeological Society (records at Carlisle Archives)
Matterdale Historical and Archaeological Society (records at Kendal Archives)
Matterdale Women's Institute
Mawbray Women's Institute
Meeting Place, Ulverston
Melbreak Foxhounds
Methodist Local Preachers' Mutual Aid Association, Barrow-In-Furness and Millom Branches
Middleton Women's Institute
Midgeholme Women's Institute
Millom Amateur Operatic Society
Millom and District Arts Society
Millom and District Citizens' Advice Bureau
Millom and District Oral History Group
Millom Association of Trusteel Owners
Millom Pre-school Playgroup
Milnthorpe and District Women's Institute Market
Milnthorpe Bowling Club
Milnthorpe Women's Institute
Minerva Heritage (records at Barrow Archives)
Minerva Heritage (records at Kendal Archives)
Miramar Lodge, No 4470, Silloth
Mirehouse Townswomen's Guild
Moor Row Women's Institute
Morecambe and Lonsdale Conservative and Unionist Association
Morecambe Bay Partnership
Morecambe Bay Society
Morland and Newby Women's Institute
Morland Reading Room
Morland Village Festival of Choirs
Morton Townswomen's Guild
Mothers' Union (various Westmorland branches)
Mothers' Union, Lindale
Mungrisdale Women's Institute
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N.A.L.G.O., Westmorland Branch
Nateby and Wharton Women's Institute
National and Local Government Officers Association, Barrow-in-Furness
National and Local Government Officers Association, Ulverston
National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies, and Shotfirers and of the Cumberland Colliery Officials' Association
National Association of Retired Police Officers, Westmorland and Furness Branch No 111 (records at Barrow Archives)
National Association of Retired Police Officers, Westmorland and Furness Branch No 111 (records at Kendal Archives)
National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (Carlisle Branch)
National Association of Teachers in Further Education [later Union of University and College Lecturers]
National British Women's Total Abstinence Union
National Council of Women of Great Britain (Carlisle Branch), formerly known as the National Union of Women Workers (Cumberland Branch)
National Farmers' Union
National Independent Labour Party: Carlisle Branch
National Painters' Society
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, West Cumberland Branch
National Trust North Cumbrian Club
National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, Cockermouth Branch
National Union of Mineworkers, Cumberland branch
National Union of Railway Men: Carlisle Branch
National Union of Teachers (Cumbria)
National United Order of Free Gardeners Friendly Society
Natland and Oxenholme Women's Institute
1st Natland Girl Guides
Nature Conservancy Council
Nether Denton Women's Institute
Netherfield Cricket Club
Netherfield Football Club
New Hutton Women's Institute
Newbiggin Women's Institute
Newlands Women's Institute
Newton Arlosh Women's Institute
Newton-In-Furness Women's Institute (records at Barrow Archives)
Newton-in-Furness Women's Institute (records at Kendal Archives)
Nibthwaite and Blawith Women's Institute
Nicholforest Heritage Society
Norman Nicholson Society
Normandy Veterans Association West Cumbria Branch 51
North Cumbria Recital Club
North Cumbria RSPB Local Group
North Lancashire and District Cricket League
North Lonsdale Field Club, Ulverston
North Lonsdale Society
North Pennines Archaeology Limited
North Stainmore Women's Institute
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group
Northern Archaeological Associates Ltd
North Western Federation of the Building Trades: Keswick Section
Nursery Association of Great Britain, Carlisle and District Branch
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Obnale Club
Old Barrovians' Association
Old Flan Sports Committee, Ulverston
Old Hutton Women's Institute
Old Pals Building Fund
Order of the Sons of Temperance, Cumberland and Westmorland Grand Division
Ormside Women's Institute
Osmotherley and Mansriggs Women's Institute
Oulton Women's Institute
Ousby Children Party Group
Ousby Women's Institute
Outgate Reading Room, Hawkshead
Outgate Women's Institute
OutREACH Cumbria (records held at Barrow Archives)
OutREACH Cumbria (records held at Carlisle Archives)
Outward Bound Mountain School, Eskdale
Oxford Archaeology North (records at Barrow Archives)
Lancaster University Archaeological Unit (records at Barrow Archives)
Oxford Archaeology North/Lancaster University Archaeological Unit (records at Carlisle Archives)
Oxford Archaeology North/Lancaster University Archaeological Unit (records at Kendal Archives)
Oxford Archaeology North/Lancaster University Archaeological Unit (records at Whitehaven Archives)
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Papcastle and Belle Vue Women's Institute
Patterdale Branch Mothers' Union
Patterdale Women's Institute
Pennine Cricket League
Penrith Amateur Savoyards
Penrith and Cockermouth Conservative and Unionist Association of Great Britain
Penrith and District Dahlia and Chrysanthemum Society
Penrith and District Football League
Penrith and District Literary and Scientific Society
Penrith and District Motor Club
Penrith and District Natural History Society
Penrith and District Photographic Society
Penrith and District Schools Music Association
Penrith and Lowther Deaneries Mothers' Union
Penrith and the Border Liberal Democrats/North Cumberland Liberal Association
Penrith Branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Association
Penrith Citizens' Advice Bureau
Penrith Cricket Club
Penrith Ladies' Forum
Penrith Music Club
Penrith Remembers Project
Penrith Round Table
Penrith Singers
Penrith Tradesmen's Association (Penrith Chamber of Trade)
Penrith Wanderers Cricket Club
Penrith Women's Institute
Penrith Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
Penruddock and Motherby Women's Institute
Penruddock Mothers' Union
Pentalk Network
Pica Women's Institute
Pooley Bridge Women's Institute
Port Carlisle Women's Institute
Portland Badminton Club, Penrith.
Post Office Workers' Union
Post War Civil Defence Association, Barrow-In-Furness
Preston Patrick and Preston Richard Women's Institute
Preston Patrick Mothers Union
Preston Patrick Young Wives' Group
Prism Arts
Probus Club of Carlisle
Probus Club of Workington
Provincial Grand Lodge of Cumberland and Westmorland
Prospect and Oughterside Women's Institute
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Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps and A.T.S. Comrades' Association (Carlisle Branch)
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Rail Makers' Association
Ramblers' Association
Rampside Village Hall
Rampside Women's Institute
Raughton Head and District Women's Institute
Raughton Head Young Farmers Club
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Preservation Society
Ravenglass Conservative Association
Ravenglass Sports
Ravenglass Women's Institute
Ravenstonedale and Newbiggin-on-Lune Women's Institute
Reagill Village Hall (formerly Reagill School)
Rechabites, Westmorland District
Remember Barrow Soccer
Renwick Women's Institute
Ribble Bus Company Sports and Social Club
Rockliffe Women's Institute
Romney Society
Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven
Rosewain Women's Institute
Rosley Women's Institute
Rotary Club of Barrow-in-Furness
Rotary Club of Carlisle
Rotary Club of Kendal
Rotary Club of Kendal South Westmorland
Rotary Club of Upper Eden
Rotary Club of Windermere
Rotary Club of Workington
Rowrah Young Men's Christian Association
Royal British Legion Women's Section
Royal British Legion, Windermere Branch
Royal Liver Friendly Society, Carlisle District
Royal Liver Friendly Society, Whitehaven District
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Barrow
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Ulverston branch
Royal Union Society
Royal Windermere Yacht Club
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Salterbeck Local History Group
Samaritans of Furness
Samaritans of West Cumbria
SATRO [Science and Technology Regional Organisation]
Scaleby Women's Institute
Scales Women's Institute
Scotby Village Hall
Scotby Women's Institute
Scout Association, Barrow-in-Furness District
Scout Association, South Cumbria Division
Seascale Women's Institute
Seathwaite and Ulpha Women's Institute
Seaton Children's Carnival Committee
Seaton Women's Institute
Sedbergh (Working Men's) Conservative Club
Sedbergh and District Christian Aid
Sedbergh and District History Society
Sedbergh Golf Club
Sedbergh People's Hall
Sedbergh Women's Institute
Sedgwick Players
Selside Sports Committee see also WDSO 166
Senhouse Museum, Maryport
Shap Memorial Hall
Shap Women's Institute
Shawk Valley Group of Women' Institutes
Shipyard Band, Barrow-in-Furness
Silloth (Further Education) Dramatic Society
Silloth Women's Institute
Silverdale Women's Institute
Sir Galahad Lodge, No 5897, Carlisle
Skelton 1939-1945 War Memorial Committee
Skelton Football Club
Skelton Women's Institute
Skirwith Women's Institute
Swarthmoor Hall History Group
Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association
Solway Aviation Society
The Solway Group
Solway Group of Women's Institutes
Solway History Society
Solway Wine Circle
Sons of Temperance Friendly Society, Backbarrow
Soroptimist International of Carlisle
Soroptimist International of Cockermouth and District
Soroptimist International of Grange-over-Sands
Soroptimist International of Kendal
Soroptimist International of Penrith and District
Soroptimist International of Whitehaven and District
Soulby Mothers' Union
Soulby Women's Institute
South Carlisle Churches Together
South Cumberland Motorists' Club
South Lakeland Farm and Country Holidays
South Lakeland Lacemakers
South Stainmore Women's Institute
South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society
Southwaite Institute Company Limited
Sparkbridge and Lowick Women's Institute
St Andrew's Church Women's Fellowship, Sedbergh
St Bees Cricket Club
St Bees Girls Friendly Society Guides
St Bees Old Age Pensioners Association
St Bees Trefoil Guild
St Bees Women's Institute
St Begh's Catholic Sport and Social Club, Whitehaven
St Mary Lodge, No 6537, Wigton
Stainmore Women's Institute
Stainton Women's Institute
Stanwix Choral Society
Staveley and District History Society
Staveley Bypass Campaign
Staveley St Margarets Seat Committee
Staveley Village Association
Staveley Women's Institute
Stock Beck Action Group
Stoneraise and District Women's Institute
Storth Village Hall Committee
Storth Women's Institute
Submarine Heritage Centre, Barrow-in-Furness
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Talkin Women's Institute
Tallentire Women's Institute
Tebay Women's Institute
Temple Sowerby Mothers' Union
Temple Sowerby Women's Institute
Thorneyflats Allotment Society
Thornthwaite cum Braithwaite Women's Institute
Threlkeld Art Society
Threlkeld Women's Institute
Thursby Women's Institute
Thwaites Cub Pack
Thwaites Women's Institute
Tindale Women's Institute
Tirril Women's Institude
Tithe Barn Lodge of Mark Master Masons, no. 1345
Torver Association For Children's Sports
Torver Women's Institute
Townswomen's Guild, Barrow-in-Furness
Townswomen's Guild, Hawcoat
Trade Union Minute Books
Troutbeck Bridge Amateur Swimming Club
Troutbeck Women's Institute
Typographical Association, Barrow-in-Furness Branch
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Ulverston Conservative Club
Ullswater Fishing Rights Committee
Ullswater Group of Women's Institutes
Ullswater Masonic Lodge, No 3297, Penrith
Ullswater Preservation Society
Ulverston Amateur Operatic Society
Ulverston and District Billiards and Whist League
Ulverston and District/Duddon and High Furness District Scout Association
Ulverston and District Support Group of Leonard Cheshire Lake District Home
Ulverston and Furness Auxiliary of The British and Foreign Bible Society
Ulverston Citizens' Advice Bureau
Ulverston Cricket Club
Ulverston Heritage Centre (page 1)
Ulverston Heritage Centre (page 2)
Ulverston Trades Union Council
Ulverston Townswomen's Guild
Ulverston Women's Institute Market
Underbarrow Institute
Underbarrow Women's Institute
Underskiddaw Women's Institute
United Nations Association, Kendal District Branch
Unspecified Trade Unions, West Cumbria Branches
Upper Eden History Society
Upperby Women's Institute
Urswick Women's Institute
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Vale of Eden Band of Hope Union
Vale of Eden Lodge, No 2493, Penrith
Vale of Lune Rabbit Clearance Society
Vickerstown District Nursing Association
Vickerstown School Action Group
Victoria Park Bowling Club, Barrow-in-Furness
Voluntary Action Copeland
Voluntary Action Cumbria
Volunteer Bureau Eden
VSEL Electrical Installation Department Social Club
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Waberthwaite Amateur Dramatic Society
Waberthwaite, Corney and District Institute/Waberthwaite Village Hall Committee.
Waitby and Smardale Women's Institute
Warcop Mothers' Union
Warcop Women's Institute
Wardell Armstrong Archaeology Limited
Warwick Bridge and District Local History Group
Warwick Bridge Women's Institute
Waverton Women's Institute
Watermillock Commoners Association
Watermillock Women's Institute
Welton Women's Institute
Wesley Historic Society, Cumbria Branch
West Coast Main Line Campaign
West Cumberland Badminton League
West Cumberland Choral Society
West Cumberland Social and Moral Welfare Association
West Cumberland Society of Chemists and Engineers
West Cumberland Table Tennis Association
West Cumberland Technical Societies
West Cumberland Whippet Racing Club
West Cumbria Oral History Network
West Division Community Education
Westlakes Science Park and Research Institute
West Lakes Driving Club
Westfield Community Centre
Westmorland Agricultural Society
Westmorland and Lonsdale Conservative and Unionist Association, Langdale Branch
Westmorland and Lonsdale Conservative Association
Westmorland Association of Highway Surveyors
Westmorland British Medical Association
Westmorland Canine Association
Westmorland Conservative and Unionist Association, Levens Women's Branch
Westmorland Constituency Labour Party
Westmorland Drama Association
Westmorland Liberal Association
Westmorland Motor Club
Westmorland Music Council
Westmorland Orchestra
Westmorland Social Workers' Luncheon Club
Westmorland Society
Westmorland Women's Hockey Association
Westmorland Cumbria South Girl Guides
Wetheral and Corby Association Football Club
Wetheral and District Nursing Association
Wetheral Annual Show
Wetheral Community Association
Wetheral Group of Women's Institutes
Wetherall Parish Magazine
Wetheral Silver Jubilee Committee
Wetheral Village Hall Committee
Wetheral Working Men's Reading and Recreation Room (the Assembly Room)
Wetheral Women's Institute
Whitehaven and District Amateur Operatic Society
Whitehaven and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce
Whitehaven Brass Band
Whitehaven Burns Club
Whitehaven Camera Club
Whitehaven Civic Society
Whitehaven Conservative and Constitutional Club
Whitehaven Cricket Club
Whitehaven and District Arts Council
Whitehaven and District Amateur Movie Group
Whitehaven and District Lions Club
Whitehaven Drama Society
Whitehaven Heritage Action Group
Whitehaven Hospital Research Group
Whitehaven Library
Whitehaven Local History Society
Whitehaven Millennium Committee
Whitehaven Maritime Festival
Whitehaven Musical Festival
Whitehaven Parliamentary Debating Society
Whitehaven Probus Club
Whitehaven Rambling Club
Whitehaven Rotary Club
Whitehaven Theatre Group
Whitehaven Toc H
Whitehaven Town Mission
Whitehaven Townswomen's Guild
Whitehaven Youth for Christ
Wigton Deanery Mothers' Union
Wigton Literary and Scientific Society
Wigton Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Society
Wigton Nursing Association
Wigton Old Scholars' Association
William Fletcher Institute, Brigham
Wind and Water Mills Group, North West
Windermere and Bowness Civic Society
Windermere Choral Society
Windermere Deanery Mothers' Union
Windermere Golf Club
Windermere Women's Institute
Winster Valley Preservation Society
Winster Women's Institute
Winton Millennium Record
Winton Women's Institute
Witherslack Women's Institute
Women's Royal Voluntary Service (W.R.V.S.), Carlisle
Woodend and District Women's Institute
Workers' Educational Association, Carlisle Branch
Workers' Educational Association, Cockermouth Branch
Workers Educational Association, Kendal and District Branch
Workington (Ashfield) Lawn Tennis Club
Workington and District, National Union of Teachers
Workington Arts Club and Film Society
Workington Athletic Volunteer Force
Workington Bowling Green Lawn Tennis Club
Workington Bright Sparks Social Club
Workington Churches Together Stroke Club
Workington Citizen's Advice Bureau
Workington Cricket Club
Workington Friendly Societies
Workington Musical Festival
Workington Rugby Union Football Club Ltd
Workington Solway Badminton Club
Workington Trades Council
Workington Vocal Union Voice Choir
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Yad Moss Ski Club Ltd
Yewdale Women's Institute
Young Cumbria
YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association), Carlisle
YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association), Kendal
Youth Hostels Association, Barrow Local Group