Camborne Youth Band featured in 4barsrest

Great to see Camborne Youth Band's imminent trip to France and Belgium featured in the top brass band website 4barsrest..... To read the article, click here.
We're travelling to France and the Menin Gate, Ypres, with the Youth Band and staging an exhibition about the trip at Heartlands, Pool, Cornwall from October-November 2018.

Brilliant fundraiser for Camborne Youth Band

A fantastic auction last Saturday night at the St Michael's Mount Inn, Barriper, Cornwall, in aid of Camborne Youth Band. Ralph and Tina Williams, whose son Corey is in the band, assembled a real treasure trove of items to bid for - and raised £1,200, a really great result.
It was such a fun evening for everyone, and put the Youth Band firmly on course to raise funds to travel to the Menin Gate, Belgium, this August Bank Holiday.
Click here for more about that.

SATURDAY NIGHT FUNDRAISER AUCTION IN AID OF CAMBORNE YOUTH BAND

Corey Williams playing his great great grandfather's bugle brought back from WW1

Power tools, jewellery, kitchen items, restaurant vouchers, fishing/yacht trip, family days out …. Just a few of the fantastic items to bid for this Saturday 24 March at an auction in Barripper, Cornwall, in aid of Camborne Youth Band.

The auction is being organised by Tina Williams, who is leading a fundraising drive to take the Youth Band to the Menin Gate, Belgium, where tens of thousands of fallen soldiers are honoured by a daily ceremony. The Band has been invited to play on August Bank Holiday weekend, a huge honour. Bridging Arts is working with the Band to make the trip happen.

Tina’s son, Corey, is in the Youth Band – and is the great great grandson of Fred Negus, a Cornish miner who went out to the Western Front in 1914 with other men from Dolcoath Mine. The Williams family still has Fred’s bugle and Corey will play it in France during the visit.

“This really is history coming alive,” says Tina. “We need to get the Band out there and raise as much money as we possibly can to make sure that everyone can afford to go.”

If you can't make the auction, you can check out items online by clicking this link. The auction will be at St Michael’s Mount Inn, Barripper on Saturday 24 March, starting at 7pm with playing by the Band. All are welcome. Pasties will be on sale and everyone will have the chance to join in a singalong.

Tina has a fundraising page (https://www.gofundme.com/menin-gate-fundraiser-cyb-jcb) for anyone who can’t make it but wants to make a donation.

For more information, call Ralph Williams on 07737 210871 or email tridds@gmail.com

Freezing conditions but Camborne Youth Band play on

It was (literally) freezing today at Camborne Rugby ground - snow started to fall half way through the match against Ding Crusaders. But Camborne Youth Band played before and during the match - raising money for their August trip to the Menin Gate. There was a collection at half time....

It's a great honour for them to be invited - and a well deserved accolade, as even this short clip shows... And what commitment to play in these conditions when clearly their fingers were so, so cold.....

The icing on the cake - Camborne won the rugby! Go Camborne!

A surprise request for BBC Radio Cornwall's Laurence Reed ....

BBC Radio Cornwall's Laurence Reed had a surprise request yesterday from Ralph Williams of Barriper, father of Corey who plays in Camborne Youth Band.
Camborne Youth Band has been invited to play at the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate in Belgium on August Bank Holiday weekend - and Ralph is hard at work fundraising to get the players there. The target is £8,000 and the Band is holding an auction on 24 March at Barriper near Camborne to raise funds.

Listen to the end to hear how - just at the sign off - Laurence is stopped in his tracks ....

Heart of Conflict: resources for schools on World War One in Cornwall

We’re just launching the next stage of work in Heart of Conflict, our project on World War One in Cornwall. We’ll be working with young people and schools – in particular Camborne Youth Band which will be travelling to the Menin Gate, Ypres, in August 2017.

We’ve produced two Education Packs and a range of fascinating Fact Sheets as general background.

To read through all the resources that we’ve produced so far, click through to the Heart of Conflict website.

And please do check out the Youth Band's fundraising page - they're working hard to raise money for the trip.