Julyan's Bit
Dear Newlyn Resident,
Two things to say this time round - a thanks and a question. First, a very big thank you to all who are so freely volunteering their time to take forward the regeneration plans for Newlyn not just for the business side of things but also on housing, play, environment and community issues.

Second, a question: what are you doing? There is a lot happening in Newlyn in clubs, organisations and groups. We’d like to compile a directory and make it available throughout Newlyn. So let us know what you’re doing: names, days of meeting, activity, contact names and numbers and if you would welcome new participants.

Please send information to either:
Tom Jane (Regeneration Tourism and Leisure, Penwith District Council, St Clare, Penzance TR18 3QW) or
Email me at julyan.drew@gmail.com or drop me a line at 2, Elms Close Terrace, Newlyn. TR18 5AU.

Thank you.
Rev Julyan Drew,
Chair of Community Regeneration Sub Group

Newlyn consultations results

Unclaimed benefit in Penwith - is some of it yours?
Cornwall is the poorest county in England. Penwith District Council is the twenty-eighth poorest District in England, and Penzance South is the nineteenth poorest of the one hundred and thirty-five wards in Cornwall.

It is estimated that there is an annual total of £9 million in unclaimed benefits in Cornwall.
In 2001, Councillor John Payne was approached by Penwith District Council to take on cases of people with disabilities who were identified as being entitled to various benefits.

Since then, John has helped people to claim a total of approximately £1,200,000 in previously unclaimed benefit, including Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Pension Credit, Incapacity Benefit, Industrial Injury Benefit, etc. This has also meant that hundreds of people no longer need to find money for rent and/or Council Tax.

He has also secured support at both District and County Council level towards amending various Disability and Social Security Acts of Parliament.

You could be missing out on receiving benefits that you are entitled to.
If you believe that may be entitled to any of these benefits, please contact Councillor John Payne as follows:
ring him on 01 736 360547 or write to him at Sirhowy, 9 Charles Street, Newlyn, Penzance, TR18 5QB

Welcome to new worker Kate
The Gwavas Estate has a new development worker, Kate Venner, who arrived in October 2004. She is employed by Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change (CN4C) which works with local community groups like Gwavas Residents’ Association (GRA), helping people to help themselves, and cutting through red tape to make things happen. She’s helping them increase the opportunities and activities available on the estate. Kate and the team at Gwavas can link into other CN4C community-based services such as learning facilities, pathways to employment, and specialist play.

With Kate’s help GRA recently put on a full schedule of Christmas activities and are now planning for half-term and Easter. However, the main challenge is the regeneration of Gwavas Playing Field – which is included in the Newlyn Strategy.

Before coming to Gwavas she worked in Honduras, Central America in a similar role, working on a range of projects including working as a teacher and a women’s clinic assistant, and managing a mural project. In her free time, Kate still works as a volunteer for a charity in Honduras, and sells quilts made by a women’s sewing co-operative. When not working she likes playing tennis, reading and travelling.

For more information about Kate, GRA, or CN4C, and what activities are available please contact Kate at the Gwavas Advisory Rooms, on 01736 351951 or e-mail kvenner@cn4c.org.uk.

Gwavas recreation field news
On the 5th February, Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change, in partnership with Newlyn's Community Subgroup, invited young people from Gwavas to come and enjoy a day's skateboarding at some of the local skate parks and a minibus was provided.

On the Saturday 26th February, a Skate Park designer is coming down to work with these young people to design a small skate park for the Gwavas Recreation Field. The idea is that these young people will now know what things they like in a skate park and therefore will be able to make good decisions. By being involved with designing the skate park, it’s more likely that they will use it and take pride in it.

Any young people from Gwavas who would like help design the park should contact Kate as above.

Environment group moves forward
The Environment Subgroup would like to thank Cllr. Pilcher (Penwith District Council's Chairman) and Arthur Roberts, head of Operation Services, for cleaning up inthe 'unadopted' areas in Newlyn. We hope to see further improvements, however small.

The group is working with Tamsin Daniel (PDC) and Alison Bevan (Director, Penlee House) on a project to publicise the sites of paintings by artists of the Newlyn Colony. This would help to enhance Newlyn's distinctive identify.

We hope to link this with the restoration of surviving water features – an old well, a pump and several 'shoots'. These were later replaced by standpipes and a number of these sites remain. We would welcome information or anecdotes relating to this project which has useful educational links e.g. Public Health, the Clearances etc. as well as to many Newlyn paintings.

Also we are monitoring planning applications. It is so important that new buildings, conversions and alterations should enhance the visual environment of Newlyn.
Ruth Simpson - (Chair) 01736 367714

Priorisation of Newlyn projects
You may remember in the last newsletter (October 2004) that all the subgroups met on the 16th September to decide in which order to work on the projects that were in the Newlyn Strategy.
The Gantt Chart shows the four subgroups and shows what order the projects will be worked on (from left to right) time scales are to be agreed.