More than 90 Cockermouth businesses and clubs rose to the fundraising challenge and raised thousands of pounds for more than 40 charities.
Charities Week was held last week and proved a huge hit.
Firefighters washed cars, estate agents collected tins for the Foodbank, dog groomers held a shampoo-a-thon. There were cake stalls, raffles, bingo, lunches, tombolas. You name it, Cockermouth people were doing it.
The first Charities Weekend was held last year and proved such a success - raising £14,000 for 35 charities - it was decided to run it for the full week this year.
Organiser Andrew Marshall said: "It was absolutely fantastic, despite the weather.
"At the moment we have just over £8k but I'm confident we will smash last year's total.
"Everyone got involved. We had 92 businesses or clubs raising money for 40 different charities, it was fantastic."
He was delighted that clubs had got involved. Croft House Bowling Club had bowls and a bingo night, raising £260 for West Cumbria Hospice at Home.
The town's WI sold 600 cakes and ran a raffle from their stall outside Sainsbury's, raising more than £350 for Bee Unique.
Blood Banks also had a stall, raising £500 for their vital charity.
Grisdales Estate Agents on Main Street swapped out its property window displays to build a tin tower of North Lakes Foodbank donations. At the end of the week, and after using cash donations to buy further supplies, they had 377 tins to donate.
Oakhurst Garden Centre raised £300 raised for WLSI (red squirrel conservation) and Cumbria Action for Sustainability.
"One of the biggest success was the Castle Bar, in Market Place, where £1,400 was raised for Kenzie's K9s - animal search and rescue," said Andrew.
"James Walker was very generous and although it could not get directly involved, donated £1,000 to local charities."
Andrew and his wife Sue and son Fraser hosted a charity lunch at their home, raising £1,900 for Cumbria Dementia.
Cockermouth firefighters had a busy day washing more than 70 vehicles and raising £798 for The Firefighters Charity.
Watch manager Steven Bullock gave a big shout out to everyone involved, including the local butchers who kept them all fed.
"An enormous thank you to all the people that donated and had their car washed, a massive thank you to all the firefighters, ex-firefighters and family members for helping out and a huge thank you to W Lindsay & Sons Limited for feeding everyone today for free.
"What an amazing supportive community we have."
Laura Cripps at Shampoochies held a dog shampoo-a-thon and raised £395 for RSPCA Cumbria West. Laura often donates her time to help RSPCA Cumbria West by giving pooches a much needed clip/ groom/ pamper before they go on to be adopted.
There was great public support.
"People responded so well. Everyone was going into shops and wanting to play their part. People were buying lots of raffle tickets," said Andrew.
"We plan to do it all again next year - even bigger and better."
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