Bridging Arts accounts 2017 to 2018

We operate on a shoestring and are far too small to post our accounts up on the charity commissioners website. But we do produce annual accounts and a report which should be of interest to supporters.  Click on the following link to read our latest annual accounts and report: Bridging Arts annual report 2017-18 . Very […]

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More dance in Hammersmith

It was great to see Italian dancer Simone Sistarelli again yesterday (29 January 2019) for another dance class with people attending the Elders’ Project at the Masbro Centre in Hammersmith, London. Click here to watch a short clip. Simone started with warm-up exercises then moved on to dance. “Research shows that dance is a bit […]

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The British Sari Story Education pack

The British Sari Story Education Pack (launched in 2007) has always proved very popular. It’s still fresh and full of ideas.  Click here to download. Our project, The British Sari Story , looked at the sari in Britain in 2007, the 60th year after Indian independence. We ran a competition for young designers to create […]

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Unveiling a WW1 memorial in Penponds

As part of our project Heart of Conflict, we’ve been looking at local World War One history. Now the centenary of the conflict has passed, we’re looking at the years immediately after the war. Many memorials were unveiled then, as people remembered all those who died. In Penponds, the War Memorial is unusual in that […]

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World War One dead at Penponds Church, Cornwall

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 […]

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Students in Estaires in WW1 Armistice commemorations

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 […]

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