A cold but inspiring afternoon in Falmouth last week when international nurses from the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, joined us for a photography workshop led by Mike Newman. Stills of the photographers in action by Caleb Giddens Photos of the nurses at work by Caleb Giddens.

We were delighted to work with Penlee Cluster to develop Cristingle materials with a difference this year. The cut-out birds carrying messages of peace and goodwill in different languages – welcoming people from overseas to Cornwall – were created by children in schools in Penzance, west Cornwall, and surrounding areas this past Christmas (2022).

A valuable morning at Falmouth Primary School in west Cornwall this morning (10 November 2022) with the wonderful Rawda Alater, who spoke about her life in Syria and her subsequent experience living in the UK in Truro. She answered children’s questions – and even taught a bit of Arabic. In at least two classes there […]

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 […]

Great to be back at St John’s Catholic Primary School in Camborne, west Cornwall, to teach a few phrases of Romanian – so that children could welcome any newcomers to the school who spoke no English. Mirabela from Bucharest, who has been working with us since before the pandemic, led the assembly. And she had […]