Sports

See separate list of Sports Clubs and Societies.

Entertainment

• Castlegate Singers - is a ladies' three-part choir based in Cockermouth performing a varied and uplifting repertoire at local concerts, charity events and special occasions.

• Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society - website under development. For details contact Jill Roper (Secretary) - rroper3704@aol.com.

• Club Latino:.Salsa Dancing Lessons; Learn the Mambo, Merengue & Cuban Salsa Dancing ! Every Monday Night @The Saints Rooms, Kirkgate Beginners: 7:00 PM; Improvers/Intermediate 8:00 PM Lessons cost £6 or £25 www.clublatino.org.uk

• Cockermouth Music Society - provides an outstanding concert programme for the people of and visitors to the northern Lake District.

• Cockermouth Harmonic Society - a music society dedicated to the furtherance of the choral music tradition within West Cumbria.
• Belfagan Womens Morris Dancers - Photos, music to download, poetry, diary and reports of the Society, which is based in Cockermouth.

• Cockermouth Mechanics' Band Cockermouth Mechanics Band meets most Mondays at 6.30 at Methodist Rooms.Contact in 2010 David Norton on 07706505858 or 01900 826036.

• Cockermouth Film Club
  
• Wordsworth Singers

Others

• Cockermouth Flood Action Group (Voluntary independent group)
  
• Cockermouth First Responders
• Chamber of Trade
  
  
• Cockermouth Museum Group - Dedicated to research, record and preserve the history of Cockermouth and surrounding area. We stage exhibitions twice a year and pursue areas of research throughout the year. New members are always welcome.

• Cockermouth Café Scientifique - is a forum for debating science issues, where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings have taken place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context. To be added to email contact list send message to: enquiries@plumblandconsulting.co.uk .

• Cockermouth Rotary Club
  
  
• Cockermouth University of the Third Age
  
  
• Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency: Helps Rural businesses.
  
• Bridekirk Parish Council website www.bridekirkparish.org.uk
  
• Croft Bowling Club www.croftbowlingclub.co.uk

• Soroptimist Internation Cockermouth and District www.cockermouthsoroptimists.co.uk
  
  
• Cockermouth Speakers Club

• Cockermouth Astronomical Society - A very informal group of amateur astronomers, sky-watchers and armchair enthusiasts, all of whom share an interest in, and love of the night sky.

• The Cockermouth and District Civic Society was formed in 1967 to focus the concern of many local people for the preservation of the character of the town.

• Lorton and Derwent Fells Local History Society
• Uma Kadampa Buddhist Centre Meditation classes. Thursdays 7.30 - 9.00pm, Drop in Meditation Class, Cockermouth, North Lakes Clinic. www.MeditateinNorthCumbria.org.uk
  

• The Derwent Railway Society - is dedicated to the preservation of local railway artefacts and railway heritage in Cumbria.

• The Vegetarian Society

• Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team - The official mountain rescue team covering the Buttermere, Ennerdale, Lorton and Loweswater valley areas of the Lake District.

• West Cumbria Dyslexia Association...Help and advice provided.

• Cockermouth Beekeepers Association - Details of membership and activities.

• West Cumbria Friends of the Earth - tel 01900 814391 for more details. We meet on the first Tuesday of the month in the Friends Meeting House Kirkgate at 7.45pm

• Cumbria Wine Society - tel 016973 23997. The society, (formerly the Higham Wine Club), meets at Hundith Hill Hotel, near Cockermouth for tastings and other events about 10 times a year. New members are always very welcome.
• Crummock Valley website. www.melbreakcommunities.org.uk
• Cockermouth Ski Club.
  Contact: Joe Broomfield, joe@cockermouthskiclub.co.uk Website : www.cockermouthskiclub.co.uk Meets: Various times and locations in Cockermouth - see the club website for further details Ages: 18+ Fees: Annual: £10. Arranges annual ski trips.

The list above is those societies with websites. A list of all the clubs and societies in Cockermouth can be obtained from the tourist information centre, along with contact details.