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Two Cornish companies are being described as ‘amazing’ after volunteering free or heavily subsidised accommodation to Cornwall Care staff working in homes recently affected by Covid outbreaks. Coast2Coast Motorhome Hire in Truro and Tregathenan House and Cottages in...

Residents at a care home in Wadebridge have been taking part in a nationwide online singing get together and the weekly experience is proving a big hit. Run by charity Cornwall Care, St Breock specialises in looking after older people with physical needs and different...

To mark its 25th anniversary year, Cornwall Care is challenging people of all ages to take part in a major fundraising campaign and ‘Reach for the Moon’. There are 384,400 kilometres separating earth from its nearest neighbouring planet. The charity is asking...

A 13-tonne bulk sample of hard rock being analysed by British Lithium’s team at their Cornwall-based metallurgical laboratory is showing better than expected results.   The company aims to extract lithium carbonate from the mica in granite and analysis of the sample...

Cornwall Care has appointed Derek Law MBE as a trustee – a man nationally honoured for the difference he has made in improving life for older people. Derek, who lives in St Agnes, has spent 40 years working in the adult social care sector. Senior roles have included...

A Cornwall-based phone, internet and TV provider has been praised by top music and hospitality guru Mark Fuller for ‘always being there’ during the pandemic. Mark, who once toured with the likes of Thin Lizzy and The Damned, counts many high- profile musicians amongst...

An experienced strategic healthcare leader has taken on the role of chairperson for the Charity, Cornwall Care Limited (CCL) Board. Sally Taylor was chief executive of St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth for nearly 22 years and is the current vice...

GLL, which operates under the Better brand and runs Cornwall’s leisure centres on behalf of the council, has had to close its leisure centres but is working in partnership with Public Health England to offer free home exercise videos and 600...

Camborne’s town council and business improvement team have officially declared their willingness to work together on improving the fortunes of the community and commerce of their town. The landmark memorandum of understanding was signed last summer ‘with pride and...

Residents at a Cornish care home have enjoyed some extra festive cheer thanks to construction and infrastructure specialists Kier Group. Staff from Kier joined forces with Cornwall Care staff to sing socially distanced carols outside Cedar Grange care home in...

A brother and sister duo from Newquay have received a special recognition award from Cornwall Care for their fundraising efforts. Ten-year-old Mason and his eight-year-old sister Phoebe walked 154 miles during the early part of the first lockdown to help raise money...

St Ives Leisure Centre will be collecting donations for St Ives Food Bank between Saturday 19th December and 1st January. The focus will be on the collection of tins and packaged foods, particularly tinned fruit and sugar. Items can be dropped off safely at...

Around 5000 people joined the mass virtual lights switch on in Camborne on Thursday 3rd December. Live streamed on Facebook, both residents and businesses alike were able to join the town’s countdown; turning on their own decorations at the same time as the...

An award-winning young Cornish fundraiser who has virtually travelled the length of the UK on her family’s cross trainer has set her sights on raising £20,000 for Cornwall Care’s Blackwood House in Camborne by Christmas. Ten-year-old Mia...

Cornwall Care has had two stories included in the National Care Forum’s Caring in Covid book project. Read by former BBC Spotlight presenter Justin Leigh, one of the two has also been selected to launch the NCF’s 2020 advent calendar. Each story focuses on a different...

It’s going to be an extraordinary Christmas. That’s the message from the BID Camborne and Camborne Town Council teams as they busy themselves with festive preparations unlike any others that have gone before. Traditional features like the thirty-foot real Nordman Fir...

A senior geologist, a metallurgist and a principal engineer have started work with the British Lithium Limited (BLL) team in Cornwall. Dr Robert Gruar, Dr Klass Peter Van Der Wielen and Robin Kelly are all experts in their respective fields – adding considerable depth...

An activity coordinator at Cornwall Care’s Woodland House home in St Austell has come up with an idea for making Christmas extra special for residents this year. Leanne Masters took up her activity coordinator role in February, just weeks before the first lockdown....