Royal visit to Newlyn

Royal Visit to Newlyn
Newlyn welcomed the Earl and Countess of Wessex on 25th April. While the Earl was shown some of the plans for the regeneration of the harbour, the Countess visited two community projects. At the Gwavas Advisory Rooms she met members of the Residents’ Association & learned of their plans for the estate. Later, at Trinity she was shown plans for the new Centre and met with many users, being particularly interested in the children who represented various organisations for young people in the village.

Julyan's Bit
The numbers attending the various public meetings in Newlyn is proof of an active and involved community.
Thank you to those who responded to my request in the last issue for details of your club or organisation. I know there are many more out there, so let me give you another opportunity. Let us know what you’re doing: names, days of meeting, contact names and numbers and if you’d welcome new participants.

Please send information to either:
Tom Jane, Regeneration Tourism and Leisure, Penwith District Council, St Clare, Penzance. TR18 3QW;
or to me at 2, Elms Close Terrace, Newlyn. TR18 5AU or email at julyan.drew@gmail.com
I look forward to hearing from you,
Rev Julyan Drew
Chair of Community Regeneration Sub Group

The volunteering employment pathway programme
This is a NEW programme covering Newlyn, Paul, Mousehole (Penzance South and Penzance Promenade Wards). It is open to anyone who is jobless and that means you can be on any kind of benefits and working up to 16 hours per week or not on benefits and working up to 8 hours per week.

This programme offers one to one support to get where you want in life. If you want help and support to make changes in your life, to increase your confidence and self esteem, to try new things, gain new skills, find your way into training and/or employment ring Valerie the Project Manager. She will come to you (or you can pop in and see her at the Volunteer Bureau in Penzance) to discuss your situation.
Telephone: Valerie 01736 334670

The project is funded for two years and may be renewed after that. The official description is as follows:
“The Volunteering Empowerment Pathways Programme aims to work in partnership with local agencies to assist jobless people who are disadvantaged in the labour market to overcome barriers and support them to progress on to the pathways of training, education and employment through empowerment and tailored training and volunteer placement programmes. It is a joint project between Job Centre Plus and Penwith Volunteer Bureau with funding from the European Social Fund.” .

Gwavas scate area
After numerous consultations with the local residents on Gwavas Estate, and work by Gwavas Residents Association, Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change and Penwith District Council, funding has started to be gathered to put a small skate area on Gwavas Playing Field. £10,000 from the Liveability Fund has been received to go towards the £27,000 needed. Various other funders have already been approached and it is hoped that the money will be found by the end of the summer and the skate area in place by the end of the year.

“We've had overwhelming support for this project” explained Kate Venner, Community Development Worker for Gwavas Estate, “a recent petition was signed by over 180 people from the estate”. The next step is to get planning permission for the land-scaping around the skate area to significantly reduce the impact of the skate area for local residents. Kate told us “The skate park manufacturers have explained that the surfacing they use creates minimal noise levels, but we wanted to do more so that local residents will hopefully barely notice the skate area. To do this we're getting planning permission for a grassed mound between the skaters and the houses.”

The project has been carried out with discussions with the young people who will use the skate area so that it is what they asked for and will use the skate area appropriately. The picture below shows what the area will look like. For more information call Kate Venner on 01736 351 951.

Newlyn Regeneration
I was pleased to see many of you at the exhibition and consultation at the Mission in April. You can see on this page results of your feedback on the main harbour proposals.
Thank you for the many positive comments we received about the Projects being supported by our Fish Industry Forum Subgroup, namely the Centre at Trinity and the Gwavas skatepark. By the time you read this, the former should be going out to tender while fundraising has begun for the latter.
Thank you to everyone who is working so hard to make these exciting developments happen.