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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
Christmas Lunch Buffet We recently held our annual Christmas lunch but instead of going out, this year we stayed in! We decided to hold our lunch at St John’s, where we meet each Monday and Thursday, and put on a cold buffet for our members. We had some help with all the preparations and we … Read more
St Austell Voice Newspaper Article KMS are in the news with an article in the current edition of St Austell Voice. The article is about our recent successful grant application to Cornwall Council via the local councillors’ Community Chest Pot. We received a grand total of £748 from 5 local councillors which is … Read more
Cornwall Councillors’ Community Chest Grant Kernow Men’s Society are delighted to announce that we have been successful with our application to our local Cornwall Councillors for a share of their Community Chest pots. Several months ago, KMS made an application via Cornwall Community Foundation to Great Western Railway for a grant in order to start … Read more
KMS were delighted to welcome MP for St Austell and Newquay, Steve Double, to our group meeting recently. Steve came along to the group with his wife Anne and spent time with us discussing national and local issues and taking part in a Q/A session. Up for discussion were subjects ranging from local transportation, infrastructure, … Read more
KMS held it’s first AGM on 1st August 2019 during which, in accordance with the group’s constitution, a new committee was selected. The old committee members tendered their resignation before the meeting and were duly proposed, seconded and voted into their positions by group members there present. Special mention must be made of the group’s … Read more
It was with great sadness that we here at Kernow Men’s Society received the news that our good friend and colleague, Andy Bennett, passed away recently. Our Chair was informed earlier this week by a long standing friend of Andy’s and the rest of the group heard the news at this week’s Thursday meeting. Andy … Read more
Pleased to say that Kernow Men’s Society are now listed on the local St Austell website under “things to do” in the locality. This refers to our twice weekly meetings that new members are welcome to check out and see if it’s something they’d like to do. Check out the link here
Group Meeting We had a really enjoyable couple of hours yesterday having a talk about beekeeping from our good friend Geoff Bazeley from Trewoon alongside his good lady, Leslie. Geoff told us of his lifelong interest in bees and beekeeping and brought along an array of beekeeping items alongside a viewing contraption which allowed us … Read more
