A key part of the towns Christmas celebrations for more than ten years, Camborne Town Councils’ 2024 Childrens 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.

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

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

Bal Maidens & Miners Dance at Trevithick Day 2023 Bal Maidens & Miners Dance at Trevithick Day 2023

Does your child benefit from extra sensory input to gain meaning, sense and enjoyment from stories? Join us for this exciting new trial!

Our aim is to bring stories alive and allow those members of our community who need additional sensory input to experience the magic of stories.

Sessions, led buy a library staff member, will be individual or with a small group of known peers. We ask that caregivers remain present to support interaction with the story materials.

We will revisit the same story over a period of weeks for as long as each child needs to encourage familiarity, engagement and meaning with the materials. Stories will stimulate a full range of senses. Please let us know if your child has any particular likes or dislikes when booking for the first time.

Location:
The Basset Centre Basset Road Camborne TR14 8SL

We are delighted to reveal some early concept visuals of The Basset Community Hub; a multi-million pound Town Deal funded project, lead by Camborne Town Council.

Poynton Bradbury Wynter Cole Architects have been working hard with the Town Council on the project, and have drawn up pleasing illustrations which demonstrate the anticipated look and feel of the reinvented Basset Centre and neighbouring White House.

It is anticipated the two sympathetically restored listed buildings, joined with a stunning glass atrium, will house a modern, spacious Library, a dedicated youth space, a large multi-use performance and events space, refreshments outlet and social space as well as other community and commercial services. A fly-through video of the atrium space, including illustrations of possible heritage displays, can be viewed here:

Further public consultation will take place on the project, as moves are made towards obtaining planning permission in the coming weeks.

More concept images, information and plans can be viewed in person at Camborne Library-The Basset Centre, or at Camborne Town Council-The Passmore Edwards Building. If you’d like to be involved in delivering this project, or occupying space within the hub, please email enquiries@camborne-tc.gov.uk for further information.

Thursday 26th October was a historic day in the history of South Crofty mine. It was the official start of the dewatering process and they held an official ceremony where they explained …

“The iron-rich red water is now being pumped at a rate of 25,000 cubic meters per day. It then undergoes three stages of filtration, passes through a hydro-turbine that generates up to 15% of the power needed to run the plant, and is ultimately deposited into the Red River, cleaner than the current river water! Today was an important day in Cornish mining history, marking the start of an 18-month countdown until we hopefully see tin extracted from South Crofty once again after 25 dormant years!”

On Monday 23rd October, Camborne, Richard Trevithick, the Trevithick Society and the ‘Puffing Devil’ were featured on a BBC CBeebies show called ‘Fred & Pete’s Treasure Tales’. The show’s now available on iPlayer if you’d like to give your little ones a local history lesson:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001rs3m/fred-petes-treasure-tales-series-1-17-the-strange-whistle

Thanks to the tireless work of Brian Terry, Camborne’s Fairtrade Ambassador, Camborne has once again been recognised as a Fairtrade Community. The award was marked with the presentation of the certificate to the Mayor, Councillor Zoe Fox at the Passmore Edwards building in October and the certificate will be proudly displayed in the council chamber.

 

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