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The Camborne / Redruth / Hayle Gazette March 2017
News
Athletics club wins award of £25k for new equipment
A POOL-based athletics club has se- cured £25,000 to buy vital new equip- ment for its high jumpers and pole vaulters, after winning a national award.
Cornwall Athletic Club, which has more than 700 members, ranging from eight-years-old to athletes in their 70s, is based at Carn Brea Leisure Centre and was awarded the funding by financial mutual OneFamily, through its Founda- tion Community Awards.
The annual awards provide game- changing opportunities for community organisations, groups and projects across the UK.
Some of Cornwall Athletic Club’s members have gone on to achieve na- tional success, including Rebecca Gray and Molly Caudery, both international pole vaulters, and in international dis- cus thrower Paddy Swan.
The club was nominated for an award by its long jump and triple jump coach John Mitchell, who is also a OneFamily customer. He nominated the club for a Foundation Community Award to fund new mats for its pole vaulters and high jumpers, as the existing equipment is no longer fit for use.
He said: ‘The mats we have now date back to when Sebastian Coe officially opened the club in 1992 and they are just not good enough! ‘We’ve got some very promising young athletes at the club, and they de- serve to have access to the equipment they need to achieve their full potential. This award should set us up for another
Camborne, Redruth and Hayle GAZETTE
25 years of pole vaulting and high jump- ing.’
Cornwall Athletic Club was one of 41 organisations presented with funding in the latest round of the awards. Karl El- liott, marketing director at OneFamily, said: ‘Cornwall Athletic Club is a key part of the community and it is helping local athletes achieve great things. This award will help train the international athletes of the future, which is a fantas- tic thing for us to be able to support.
Causes
‘Our Community Awards go right to the heart of what being part of a mutual society is all about, directly benefiting our customers and the causes closest to their hearts.
‘Our next round of Community
Awards is set to launch in the autumn and we’d encourage our Cornwall-based customers to get involved and nominate a cause that’s important to them.’ Through its foundation, OneFamily redistributes a proportion of its profits back to its customers, to help them to help their families, their communities and those they care about most. In 2016, 100,000 people directly benefited from Foundation Community Awards. Over a period of five years, OneFam- ily’s aim is to make £5m available through the foundation, helping to im- prove the lives of its customers, their families and communities. For more information please visit
https://www.onefamily.com/your- foundation/
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DAVID Heard, left, general counsel for OneFamily, seen holding the award with Cornwall Athletic Club pole vault coach Stuart Caudery and his daughter Molly Caudery – a pole vaulter with the club and the number one under-20s champion of Great Britain
£19k funding for new community café at mine site
THE King Edward Mine near Camborne is about to write a new chapter in its history after receiving a grant of nearly £19,000 towards the creation of a new community café due to open next month.
The historic mine is located between the villages of Beacon and Troon, towards the western end of the Great Flat Lode val- ley and at the heart of Corn- wall’s industrial landscape. As the oldest complete mine site in the county, it has been a mu- seum since 2001. Cornwall Council purchased it from the Pendarves Estate in 2009 to safe- guard its future. The grant of £18,998 for the creation of a new community cafe, due to open on Saturday, April 15, has come from LEADER funding, part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE). Work on the café is close to completion and its opening will mark an important milestone in the con- servation and regeneration of the site thanks also to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and the Architectural Heritage Fund’s Challenge Fund for His- toric Buildings at Risk.
The café is part of a major
£1.7m project to conserve what is the world’s most complete 19th-early 20th century
mine. The majority of the work at King Edward Mine is focused on the core buildings which re- tain their appearance and char- acter of about 1907, when Cam- borne School of Mines equipped the mine’s mill with the most up-to-date surface machinery of the time.
It is believed that the addition of a café will enhance visitors’ experience of the mine site and generate income that will help make the site self-sufficient, something considered essential for its future.
Gateway
The idea is that the new devel- opments at King Edward Mine (KEM) will make it a gateway to the Great Flat Lode Mineral Tramway, a 6.5-mile (10.5km) circular loop around Carn Brea and through some of Cornwall’s most spectacular mining land- scape features. People will be able to park free of charge at the site before enjoying a walk or cycle around the mineral tramway trackbed or a visit to the award-winning museum. Kevin Baker, chair of KEM Ltd, said: ‘This final bit of fund- ing towards the realisation of the community café at King Ed- ward Mine will help to create year-round employment in the
local area, attract new visitors to this important heritage site and help generate income to support the operation of the site by the charity.’
Julian German, Cornwall Council’s portfolio holder for economy, said: ‘This is a fantas- tic project which is not only cel- ebrating Cornwall’s industrial heritage but ensuring we can enjoy it for many more years to come. I look forward to visiting and enjoying the new café as well as the impressive land- scape.’
Councillor Jonathan McCul- loch, chairman of the Coast to Coast Local Action Group, said: ‘The Local Action Group is de- lighted to support the work at King Edward Mine. The Local Action Group exists to support rural business diversification, tourism and to safeguard the heritage of Mid Cornwall. King Edward Mine has existed for well over 100 years. With these renovations we hope the story of the mine will continue for at least another century.’
The café will be run by the Cornwall-based Kitchenside Company, which already has two establishments at Looe and Mount Edgcumbe. It will add to the programme of free events and activities run throughout the year at Kind Edward Mine.
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