As part of Heart of Conflict,our project looking at World War One in Cornwall, we studied local war memorials. Penponds Church near Camborne had very close links with Camborne School of Mines. The war memorial there remembers many young men who were not born locally – but had very strong links with the parish. Click […]

Students at the College du Sacre Coeur, Estaires, presenting an exhibition of correspondence between Cornish miner Leslie Pentecost and the Smagghue family who billeted him in the town during World War One. Leslie was one of a group of miners from Dolcoath who joined the 25th Field Ambulance when war broke out in 1914. They […]

In I Packed This Myself  we worked with migrant workers and farming communities in Cornwall. We started in 2006 by working with workers from eastern Europe, working on the land in west Cornwall: at that time, many were isolated and faced discrimination. They were mostly housed in caravans on farms, due to local housing shortages. […]

This poetry was written in autumn 2018 in Hayle, Cornwall, a century after the guns finally fell silent on the Western Front. Click here to download Keen writers – some experienced, some trying their hand for the first time – gathered at three workshops led by respected local author Jenny Alexander. They created poems to […]

‘Dancercise’ is hard to say…. but the name says it all. Here are photos of a recent session at the Masbro Centre, Hammersmith, London. Dancer Simone Sistarelli is working with the Elders’ group. The idea was to teach people a few simple movements that they could practice at home daily. They could practice the movements […]