Sk8 Event – 12th Feb 2017
To get support behind the St Ives Skatepark Project, to canvas opinion and gather ideas we organised a SK8 EVENT in the Guildhall on the 12th Feb 2017. We hired a half pipe from Mount Hawke and they came in to run the skate competition and free skate. The event was brilliant, awesome skate & scooter […]
Tree planting Sunday 5th Feb
We had a great work party this afternoon where we planted out 15 new trees and pruned the existing trees. Nice change from just tackling brambles, though we did a bit of that too. Kevin from Cornish Garden Nurseries brought us the trees on Wednesday and gave us a great lesson on how to prune our […]
We have funding!
We are so delighted to hear that we have bagged £2000 from a Tesco funding scheme. Thank you to everyone who voted for us & to Tesco & Groundworks who launched this ‘Bags of Help’ funding initiative – all the money was donated by the 5p bag scheme. So excited that we can now go […]
St Ives Skatepark Project
A few of us are extending our energies & fundraising abilities to the skatepark that is right next to our community orchard & needs an upgrade. It’s a very old-fashioned skatepark made from wood, steel & tarmac, is very expensive to fix and most local kids who can travel, go to other skateparks instead of using […]
Apple Wassail event
Our community orchard was certainly woken up from it’s winter slumber at it’s very first Wassail. Lovely to have so many people turn up for the event. Quite a sight to see especially when we all went weaving around the orchard in a long snake making lots of noise with instruments & pots & pans. […]
Apple Wassail
Happy New Year! We hope you had a fabulous festive season. We are planning to have our very first Apple Tree Wassail on Sun 15th Jan starting at 3pm. Come along to enjoy, and if you fancy, you can decorate yourself with some ivy, leaves & feathers & bring along something to make a noise, […]
Funding. Vote for us at Tesco!
Wonderful news. Our community orchard has been shortlisted for a public vote in Tesco’s #BagsofHelp initiative! You can vote in store 1 to 31 December for 3 chosen projects on who should receive the £1000, £2000 or £5000 awards. Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its Bags of Help initiative across England and Wales. The […]
November work parties – DofE students
We’ve had 11 students join us for their Duke of Edinburgh volunteering over the last couple months who have been a huge help. They’ve worked hard using a variety of tools, digging, hoeing, cutting & scything to help us clear large areas of thick overgrown brambles & weeds, as well as clearing and mulching around […]
Dark evenings
Last week was our last Wed evening work party for awhile as it’s now too dark too early. We finished early and by the time we had all the tools together we walked home in the dark. We going to switch it to a Sat or Sunday morning, once every 2 weeks, 11 – 1pm. Will […]
October work parties
We’ve had great turnouts at our Wednesday work parties the last couple weeks. Quite a few lovely new volunteers from our Apple day plus our DOE students as well as our few regulars. We’ve been concentrating on clearing around the trees & laying down mulch as well as clearing the outskirts of the orchard that […]
Apple day feedback
Thank you to those of you who came along to Apple day, our very first event at the St Ives Community Orchard. So lovely to see so many people there enjoying themselves & to get so many positive comments, it made all that hard work so worth it & we were blessed with beautiful weather.On […]
Thank you’s for Apple day
We really appreciate all the contributions for our very first Apple day. Thank you so much to both our local Tesco and Co-op for sponsoring us £25 each of groceries for our Apple day community event. We have lots of varieties of apples, potatoes, tinfoil, butter and cheese, tea, coffee, marshmallows, treats for prizes, paper […]
Funding from St Ives Community Fund
Thank you so much to St Ives Community Fund who has donated £450 towards our orchard. This will help us grow & continue our development of the orchard. Wonderful to have this local support. We are going to buy more much needed tools, pay for some strimming in the orchard and snacks for the hard […]
Come along to our first Apple Day
ST IVES APPLE DAY – Sunday 9th October 2016 The merry band of volunteers at St.Ives Community Orchard, would like to invite everyone to join them at their first Apple Day on Sunday 9th October. They have plenty of reasons to celebrate – Cornwall County Council have officially handed over the orchard lease to the […]