Wonderful workshops today (Friday 5 October 2018) at St John’s Catholic Primary School, Camborne.  Younger children created poppies and the older classes learned more about World War One and started to write letters and postcards to men (and women) who went off to war.  All classes were so full of enthusiasm and interest.   Click on […]

Our free exhibition PLAYING FOR CAMBORNE was open from 11 October to 6 November 2018 at Heartlands, Pool.  Just over 100 years ago, a group of brave tin miners from Dolcoath set off to the Western Front after war broke out. In August 2018, 100 years on from the end of the war, Camborne Youth […]

A snapshot of Camborne Youth Band’s recent visit to Estaires, northern France.  Here’s a video of the Band presenting the rugby ball, then playing by the war memorial. And here playing in the local park.  Estaires communications wizard Tony Haverland made these two short films which caught a flavour of the day.  The Band was following in the footsteps of […]

A truly emotional – and wonderful – occasion. Camborne Youth Band played at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, tonight to an audience of hundreds.  Ambassadors for Cornwall’s youth and for Brass Bands everywhere.  We remembered the millions who died in World War One. The Band was following in the footsteps of Cornish miners from Dolcoath […]

BBC Cornwall’s Donna Birrell featured Camborne Youth Band’s historic trip to France and Belgium over August 2018 Bank Holiday weekend. PC Dave Wilton of Camborne laid a wreath on the grave of Thomas Penhorwood, a Newquay policeman in the Royal Army Medical Corps who was shot in the head collecting wounded from No Man’s Land […]