We are a restored, residential, Charity Centre in the heart of The Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall, facilitating and supporting outdoor learning, adventure experiences, Community Hub activities, cultural and artistic opportunities, and training spaces for hire.
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In the summer of 2022, The Roseland Centre charity successfully raised funds to buy the former Cornwall Council outdoor activity and education Centre in the village of St. Just-in-Roseland, Cornwall.
Located on Cornwall's scenic Roseland Peninsula, in the village of St. Just-in-Roseland, this former Victorian Methodist School was for many years successfully run as Cornwall Outdoors, Activity and Education Centre and was used by organisations such as the Royal Yachting Association (RYA), British Canoeing, (now PaddleUK), as well as local and out of County schools, groups and individuals from all backgrounds, abilities and needs. It was well known as the place where primary school groups from around Cornwall and the wider areas, and even Continental Europe, came to engage in safe, enjoyable outdoor learning and activity such as learning to kayak, canoe, and sail, as well as being challenged by orienteering and cohesive experiences in the beautiful Cornish countryside.
We will be continuing in this tradition and scope of business, offering children and adults life-changing experiences in an outdoor, challenging natural setting. We offer residential accommodation with access to community classes, wellbeing support, 1:1 mentoring, specialist activity for SEN groups and outdoor soft/hard skill training, with particular emphasis on water-based activities which will initially be organised by local outdoor activity providers. We are situated in the heart of St. Just in Roseland near St Just Creek, which is ideally suited for sailing and all kinds of water sport experiences, whilst nearby Summers Beach is one of the most scenic places in the area to learn how to paddleboard. There are also opportunities for sea kayaking and windsurfing, as well as land-based activities including hiking, camping, bushcraft and orienteering.
Within our Centre we offer hireable space and a residential group setting for schools, groups and businesses. The Centre has been renovated and made commercially compliant over the last 14 months, and now boasts fantastic facilities such as accessible showers, a self-catering kitchen, three dormitories with bunk beds, and two separate rooms each with bunk beds.
We operate 364 days a year but specifically throughout the Autumn/Winter months we plan to offer a similar accommodation model to the YHA, supporting and providing for local community events, training organisations, and youth groups/out of school programs that need outdoor classrooms/life skill-based accreditation for children who are out of school and challenged by everyday life, (NEET). We have started community facilities such as a Permaculture Garden for volunteer engagement and support. We plan to integrate a Community Food Share project, perhaps even a volunteer-run village shop.
We believe The Roseland Centre is the perfect place to host residential experiences for children and adults. With a capacity for 34 staying on site in comfortable, safe and functional dormitory style bedrooms with showers and amenities, a fully equipped kitchen, dining hall, outdoor green space and communal rooms, our Centre is a haven, nestled above the quiet and nature rich creeks and tributaries of the River Fal.
We provide schools and youth groups with an opportunity to engage in various outdoor activities and learning within a natural and inspiring environment. The Roseland Peninsula is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, (AONB). We want to ensure that young people and adults, whether from the Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall, or elsewhere in the UK & abroad, can come to visit this inspiring place, learn new skills through tailored classes and sessions, make friends, and explore all that the location has to offer.
We know how lucky we are to live in such a breath-taking natural environment, but we believe the potential provided by the outdoors is even greater when everyone gets to share in it! Inspiring people of all ages in outdoor learning, sustainable thinking and adventurous experiences is more important than ever for everyone's physical and mental health wellbeing.
As an environmentally aware Centre, the refurbished building will hopefully evolve into a local beacon of sustainability awareness and practice, using renewables in its operation and providing ecologically sensitive experiences.
We wish to encourage education through nature, encouraging children and adults of all ages to live differently, providing an ecological and environmentally friendly context to develop and expand their knowledge. This would be in accordance with the recently launched Department for Education’s Sustainability and Climate Change strategy, to establish the UK as a world leader in sustainability and climate change education by 2030.
Our Campaign - The Future of TRC:
Our organization is dedicated to inspiring young minds through the power of nature, exciting outdoor, explorative play and activities that challenge and stretch solution focused thinking. Coupled with our residential accommodation and exclusive on-site facilities, the TRC experience fosters a deep connection to the natural world around us, a wider understanding of our community strength and resilience and stands as a gateway to the potential of opportunity and growth to all ages, backgrounds and abilities of users.
Your support is crucial to keep our programs, activities and Centre open and accessible to all. We need to raise money to cover our core costs, ensuring we can continue to:
- Offer memorable, meaningful and inspiring outdoor experiences.
- Build a stronger community. We provide a safe and supportive space for children and young people to connect with their peers and the environment.
- Educate for a sustainable future. We equip the next generation with the knowledge and skills to become environmental stewards.
- Every donation, no matter how small, makes a big difference. Your support will help us nurture the next generation of conservationists and create a brighter future for our planet.
In short, we wish to achieve a stable, sustainable future and be able to continue to support individuals and groups from all over Cornwall and beyond with impactful services, activity and education of the kind that creates magical memories, thoughtful and inspiring change and those all-important, transferrable life skills.
With that we need to fundraise for the core costs that operating our Charity Centre demand. Our team of employed staff and volunteers are tirelessly busy forging positive and meaningful contacts with individuals, businesses, volunteers, other charities and potential customers from all over the UK, but we still need your help!
Please support us so THE ROSELAND CENTRE can continue to support others.
Thank you so much in advance!
The TRC Team.
The Roseland Centre, St Just-in-Roseland, Truro, Cornwall, TR2 5JA.