by stiveslocal | Mar 25, 2024 | community news, News
St Ives Leisure Centre’s swimming pool has won a share of a £430,000 award from Sport England to improve energy efficiency and thus reduce running costs and boost sustainability. Photograph: St Ives Leisure Centre/Facebook The money — £156,822 — from the...
by stiveslocal | Mar 25, 2024 | Arts and entertainment, community news, News
Community Ownership funding has been secured to help the relocation of St Ives Archive to the historic Market House in the centre of town. Photograph: St Ives Town Council Plans involve the renovation of the first floor of Market House to bring the Archive back to the...
by stiveslocal | Mar 23, 2024 | Arts and entertainment, community news, News
There was a big attendance for today’s kite-making workshop at St Ives Library, ahead of Kite Fest, which will be staged on The Island next Saturday. Billy Wynter, The Kite Doctor, with a mostly attentive audience as he talks youngsters through making their own...
by stiveslocal | Mar 6, 2024 | Arts and entertainment, community news
Revived by the town council two years ago, St Ives Kite Fest is returning. It will be held on The Island on Saturday, 30th March. Photograph: Nik Read The annual community event, led by the cultural services team, welcomes ‘Dr Kite’ Billy Wynter, and also local...
by stiveslocal | Feb 2, 2024 | community news, News
Cornwall Council has decided it’s time that its fleet of gritters, seen regularly on the roads during winter, were given individual names, as other local authorities have done. Around the country you’ll find Gritney Spears, Spreadie Mercury and, of course,...
by stiveslocal | Jan 25, 2024 | Arts and entertainment, community news, News
It has been announced that the St Ives Food and Drink Festival will not take place this year, but there are plans for a new and improved festival in 2025. “After an amazing five-year term, ILOW will no longer be organising the St Ives Food and Drink...
