It was great to see artist Pete Kirby last week (27 September 2020) for the first time for some years. Pete – now lecturing at Falmouth University – came to collect the wonderful deck he created for our skateboard design competition in 2012. For more details of Pete’s board, click here. For images from the […]
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Very many thanks to David Thomas, of Kresen Kernow (Cornwall’s archives) in Redruth, for letting me know that an historic banner, belonging to Camborne Old Contemptibles, is hanging in Camborne Church. Camborne had an active branch of the Old Contemptibles, an organisation set up across the country in the years after World War One to […]
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Searching the world for work …. Our new map for schools, community groups and churches is ready to go. The very first place that it’s on display is St Mary’s Church, Penzance. This church already had a map there encouraging visitors to mark their countries of origin with a pin. Our new map takes things […]
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We were thrilled to run our first Zoom workshop on journeys and migration at St John’s Catholic Primary School in Camborne, Cornwall. Our special guest, Mirabela Robatzchi originally from Romania but now living in Helston, joined us and talked about the distances (geographical, cultural and social) that she had travelled in her life. Due to […]
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If you’re thinking of making a donation. … please pay it into our dedicated fundraising page. It’s the easiest way for us to process the funds and claim much-needed GiftAid. Traditionally, we’ve depended on grant funding to finance the bulk of our projects. But recently our work – particularly around the centenary of World War […]
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During the months of the COVID-19 pandemic we’ve been putting together a blog about the stained glass windows at St Crewenna’s Church, Crowan, Cornwall. Each has a powerful story involving local people and their lives: their themes resonate today. Some of the people who created – and who are remembered – in these windows are […]
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