The Trevithick Day committee have now published the schedule of events for Camborne’s big day on Saturday April 27th 2024. Click on the link below to head over to their website for the full line-up and be sure to check the Trevithick Day facebook page for updates and featured highlights.

For coverage on the day, head to our Camborne Town Council Facebook page where we’ll be livestreaming and posting throughout the day, plus our official photos will be uploaded to our pages across the weekend, here’s the link to ur Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/CamborneTownCouncil

Finally, if you can’t make it along in person, James Dundon’s Saturday show on BBC Radio Cornwall will also be broadcasting live from the streets of Camborne during the morning, here’s the link to the BBC Radio Cornwall page:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hnrdw1

Trevithick Day 2024 Schedule

On Tuesday 16th April, Trevithick Day was featured on BBC Radio 5. The chair of the Trevithick Day committee, Trevor Brookes was interviewed in a 10 min segment that covered everything from steam engines to pasties! Click the button below to listen again on BBC Sounds, the Trevithick Day segment is approximately 50 mins into the show.

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On 26th March 2024, Mayor Zoe Fox & Cllr John Cosgrove explained Camborne Town Council’s budget for 2024 in a video recorded in the Passmore Edwards building, outlining the difficult decisions made this year in the context of…
– A sharp increase in inflation over the last few years.
– Deep cuts in Central Government funding since 2010.
– Devolved services and assets from Cornwall Council.
Last year, to minimise the impact of the cost of living crisis on our community, Camborne Town Council froze our share of the council tax (known as the precept). However the sharp increase in inflation and deep cuts to central government funding since 2010 have plunged many councils across the country into crisis.
If we also add the context of services and assets devolved from Cornwall Council and the management and delivery of huge ‘Town Deal’ projects for Camborne, our councillors reluctantly took the decision to increase our precept, which equates to an additional £25 per year for Band D properties or 48p per week, to reduce the gap between our funding and our costs.
Please bear in mind Camborne Town Councillors are unpaid volunteers, most of whom live, work and pay taxes in Camborne just like the rest of the community and have gone through the tough times that we all have over the last few years. This decision wasn’t taken lightly and councillors are committed to reducing this precept. We hope you understand that the council has done all it can to shield our community from these recent cost increases.
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With just a month to go until Camborne’s big day, we caught up with Trevor Brookes, chair of Camborne Trevithick Association, on a very blustery day, at the site of where it all started, Richard Trevithick’s birthplace! Trevor told us all about the big plans for the 40th anniversary of Trevithick Day on Saturday April 27th.

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Join us to discuss making Camborne Parish a safer place.

  • Free personal safety advice
  • Free safety tools and equipment
  • Support to set up your own Neighbourhood Watch
  • Opportunity to speak to representatives from community safety organisations.
  • Free pasties and hot drinks.

Drop-in anytime between 4pm-7pm to talk with representatives from community safety organisations.

A key part of the town’s Christmas celebrations for more than ten years, Camborne Town Councils’ 2024 Children’s Lantern Parade will take place on Friday 29th November as part of a collaborative ‘Christmas Lights Switch-On Day’ delivered by Camborne Town Council and BID Camborne.

This much anticipated event is a great favourite with young and old alike. It is expected the combination of the Town’s Light Switch-On, Lantern Parade and Christmas Tree Festival will bring the whole town together to celebrate Christmas with light, music and a whole lot of fun!

Camborne’s Remembrance Parade will be held on Sunday 10th November 2024.

The parade will depart from the square at 10:15, and will head around through Union and Cross Street, down to Tyacks roundabout and congregate outside the Church.

Camborne’s Great Big Green Fest is returning for 2024, on Saturday 8th June. This event is free to attend, family-friendly, and forms part of the National Great Big Green Week celebrations.

 

More information coming soon!

The Camborne Community and Commerce Awards are returning for 2024!!

You can nominate online here, or in paper format in the below locations:

  • Library (Basset Road)
  • Tyacks Hotel (Commercial Street)
  • Kath’s Plaice (Church Street)
  • Up Memory lane Interiors (Trelowarren Street)
  • Camborne Games (Trelowarren Street)
  • British Heart Foundation (Commercial Square)
  • Tesco (Wesley Street)
  • Delight 2 Bite (Cross Street)
  • Cornish Oven (Treswithian)

The nomination pack below explains the criteria and what the Awards Panel are looking for in each Award.

Nominate here

Trevithick Day 2024 is being celebrated on Saturday 27th April.

For more information, please head to the organiser’s website:

Trevithick Day Committee Website
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