We aim to reduce our impact on the environment by becoming a plastic free community leader. We also host climate action meetings; organise beach cleans and host events on wildlife and the local landscape. To promote the fantastic history and heritage of our area, we host exhibitions and run heritage trails around the village.
We continue to encourage the preservation and education of our local heritage through working with the Mousehole Archive Group. We regularly host exhibitions of photographs and memorabilia held by the Mousehole Archive. Recent exhibitions have centred around Mousehole’s artists and writers, Mousehole Football Club and the Solomon Browne lifeboat.
We have also worked with Mousehole School and the archive group to put together exhibitions to fit in with topics the children are working on in school, such as a recent exhibition on Mousehole’s connections with World War 2.
We have also worked with the RNLI and The Solomon Browne and Union Star Memorial group to host exhibitions and raise money for a statue to celebrate the memory of those local men who lost their lives in the tragedy.
To encourage families to learn more about Mousehole’s heritage and wildlife, we have hosted heritage and nature trails around the village during half terms. These trails have proved to be very popular with local families.
We are working with Sustainable Penzance and our local Councillor, Thalia Marrington on initiatives to galvanise support for sustainable and environmentally friendly change in Mousehole and recently hosted a series of climate action events with them.
We worked with celebrated psychiatrist Dr Lynne Jones and the Penwith Landscape Partnership (PLP) on a fantastic Childrens’ Nature Photography Project with children from Mousehole School. The children were given a photography workshop and a camera and taken out into the local countryside and asked to look closely at the world around them, and to take photographs of things that were important to them. There was then an editing and discussion process, where the children were encouraged to express their feelings on their local environment, and to give some advice and their thoughts to the leaders of the G7 (which was happening in a nearby village at this time). The resulting photographs and their comments were then printed professionally and were exhibited at the hall for 2 weeks. The feedback we had from members of public viewing this exhibition was incredible, with many people expressing how this exhibition had made them think, and how impressed they were with the project.
By attending our events or hiring the hall you are helping to fund our community projects. If you would like to make a donation you can do so here.
“I want to be a nature boy, not a screen boy who’s inside all day. Nature’s more interesting. YouTube is cool, and gaming, but nature is more important. It helps us breathe, it helps us live, how can we do without it?
Comment from pupil who took part in nature photography project
“What a brilliant thing to do. Thank you so much for putting this on, I have learned so much more about Mousehole, and it has been really enjoyable”
Parent who took part in nature trail
“I’ve lived here for years and didn’t know any of those things. I’ve learned so much more!”
Child who took part in heritage trail
“It’s made us walk all around the village and we’ve seen so much more than we would have done”
Parent who took part in nature trail
