Do International Nurses work at your local hospital?

As part of photography project THROUGH MY LENS, international nurses from the Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro and our team attended Open Days at Truro and Penwith Colleges.  THROUGH MY LENS has been based around photography workshops working with international nurses based in Truro – from the Philippines, India, Africa and elsewhere.  The nurses have taken […]

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International nurses featured in Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery

Wonderful to see international nurses from the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, Treliske, Truro, featured in the brand new ground-floor display at the Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery. The ‘Through My Lens’ project, a collaboration between the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and the charity Bridging Arts, is being shown as of a major relaunch of Cornwall Museum […]

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Spotlight: International nurse in Truro shares her story

This spring we’re throwing a spotlight on the brilliant work done by International nurses at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust. Too often we know little about their stories and background. Our project, Through My Lens, aims to change that.  We’ve run a series of photography workshops for the nurses who have learned a little […]

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Nine different postcards – nine different languages

Our language postcards are now available in nine different languages – Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Russian, Bulgarian, Mandarin, Arabic and Romanian.  We’ve been using these in schools to teach children just a few basic phrases to welcome newcomers. Click here to read more.

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Family researchers uncover long lost history

Nearly 106 years after her death,  a photo has been discovered of Maybelle Stoneman – one of the two young women who were killed in a factory in the National Explosives Factory, Hayle, on 20 December 1916. The factory at the time was producing munitions for the Front and was one of the largest in […]

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Spotlight on migration and workers from overseas

Issues around migration – and the role played by workers from overseas – are even more in the spotlight now than they were when we started our project, I PACKED THIS MYSELF. Here’s a reminder of the suitcases we created with people from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia  – and a host of other countries – who […]

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