As the headline suggests, after consultation with our landlords and after undergoing a risk assessment we are able to restart our Monday meetings again after a long year away. We will be resuming on Monday 19th April at 12pm at our usual venue of St John’s Church on Bodmin Road, St Austell. Initially, because of … Read more

Further to the PM’s announcement over the weekend we have suspended meetings for this new lockdown period which will hopefully last just the intended 4 weeks. Fingers crossed we will be able to meet again before Christmas but if not matters are in hand to re-start our meetings again early in the New Year at … Read more

Chosen As A Local Cause Kernow Men’s Society are delighted to have been chosen by The Co-op as one of their local community causes for 2020/2021. Our local branch is at Moorland Road in Westhill, St Austell and Su Pettis there has been instrumental in getting us chosen for this year, so, thank you very … Read more

Post Lockdown Meetings The group has met up a couple of times over the last few months since the release of the tight lockdown and the rules allowing people to resurface and meet up again. Due to restrictions still being in place regarding meeting inside we have had to temporarily meet at a local cafe … Read more

Coronovirus (COVID 19) After the PM’s press conference yesterday Monday 16th March and the strong advice contained within, Kernow Men’s Society meetings will be suspended forthwith. This decision has been taken in the light of the advice given and underpinned by our landlord’s (The Methodist Church) decision to recommend suspending all community type events at … Read more

Imerys Local Charity Raffle Kernow Men’s Society are pleased to announce that we have again been the grateful recipient of a very kind donation from Imerys via their branch at Imerys Minerals Ltd at Par Moor Centre, Cornwall.   In a change to previous years, the staff at Imerys held a raffle of unwanted Christmas … Read more

More Grant Success! Kernow Men’s Society are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant from Cornwall Rural Community Charity towards the group’s overall running costs. This grant will allow us to continue offering our group meetings and outings to local men in need of some escape from loneliness, exclusion and social isolation. … Read more

Diabetes UK Visit and Risk Assessments We had a couple of visits recently from Mr Spencer Wimbleton who is a Cornwall based volunteer for Diabetes UK. Spencer chatted to us about the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, gave out information about the diseases and answered questions from our guys about causes, diets, … Read more

The Co-op Westhill St Austell We were fortunate to be The Coop’s latest chosen group to receive their monthly tea, coffee and biscuits donation. Gary King from the Co-op store in Westhill, St Austell visited the group at one of our meetings recently and brought with him a bag of goodies which we gratefully accepted. … Read more

Twenty Nineteen Well, another year nearly at an end and we have gone from strength to strength here at Kernow Men’s Society with twice weekly meetings every week at our new venue at St John’s Methodist Church, trips out, support from a variety of organisations and a recent, successful Christmas buffet with more to come … Read more