Trewoon Community Hub

Connecting with our community and understanding its needs has never been more important. We aim to provide a Community Hub, a centre of information, help and advice. 

Team Trewoon Community Fundraisers were formed during the pandemic in 2020, what started off as selling a few handmade re-useable masks along with donated books and jigsaws soon turned in to a large scale fundraising campaign. We donated iPads to local hospital wards, just under £8000 was given for the Healing Garden at RCH Treliske, £2300 to the MS Centre in our parish, we have also purchased, specialist beds and wheelchairs for young children in our community and paid for sight-saving surgery for a local toddler who had to travel to Spain for his operation.  We soon realised that many people simply wanted to be a part of the community and joined in.

We put events on in the village for all to enjoy but the ultimate was our Jubilee Party in the Park last June where there was entertainment, refreshments, fun and games for all to enjoy. It was a huge success and several hundred people came, we had no idea it was going to be supported as well as it was.

As a result of all the fundraising and assistance we were doing the idea of a Community Hub where information, advice, help and simply just offering companionship was born and this is what we are building.

The opportunity has arisen for us to rent a dedicated space in our rural Post Office, to create a room where people will feel safe and confident to seek the guidance they require.

We aim to provide and link into: 

• Social prescribing 
• Health and well-being 
• Exercise and diet, healthy eating
• Advice on safety in the home  
• Managing money and energy saving advice
• Various craft workshops
• Gardening advice 
• Help understanding and using technology
• Recycling ideas 
• A confidential suggestion/request box for those who are uncomfortable chatting face to face
• Coffee and chat

It will showcase local crafts and will be a welcoming centre which, in turn, will combat feelings of isolation and loneliness.

We need to raise £12,000 to repair, adapt, decorate and furnish the room to make it a welcoming space where anyone from our community, no matter what age can simply pop in to seek help.