Meetings and talks

REGULAR EVENTS

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MONDAYS

St Ives Probus Club
At St Anta Church Hall, Carbis Bay, 10am on the second Monday of the month.

Hayle Memory Café
At the Rugby Club, Marsh Lane, on the first and third Monday of every month, 2pm. For people with memory problems, their families, and carers. Come and dance, sing, make things, share things, do quizzes and puzzles, talk, drink tea, and eat cake. Free (but donations always welcome). For more information, call 07513 221066. No café on 1st April or 6th May due to bank holidays.

St Ives Camera Club
At The Church Hall, St Anta, Carbis Bay, 7.30pm. From the first Monday in September until April. New members welcome. www.stivescameraclub.co.uk

Christian Meditation
At the Lady Chapel, St Ia Church, 7.30pm-8.15pm. Visitors and newcomers welcome. Details on the church website.

TUESDAYS

Friends of the Towans
A friendly group of volunteers carrying out practical conservation tasks around St Ives Bay. 10am-2pm. All welcome. For details visit friendsofthetowans.co.uk. To book, phone Martin Rule on 07854 123877.

St John’s in the Fields Church
Morning prayer, 9.30am. stiveschurch.org.uk/

St Ives Women’s Institute
At St John’s in the Fields church hall on the third Tuesday of the month, 2pm.

Stammtisch German-Speaking Group
Meets once a month not always on the same Tuesday in the month) at West Cornwall Golf Club. For details, phone Birte Hosken on 01736 798408 or email birtehosken@yahoo.co.uk.

WEDNESDAYS

Steeple Woodland Nature Reserve Work Party
Everyone is welcome to come along to take part in light exercise in a beautiful location with like-minded people. Meet by the wooden gate on Steeple Lane at 9.30am. Tools and gloves are provided but please wear clothing suitable for the weather conditions. More details from Alwyn Jones, 01736 793468, steeplewoods.org and the Facebook page.

THURSDAYS

Friends of the Towans
A friendly group of volunteers carrying out practical conservation tasks around St Ives Bay. 10am-2pm. All welcome. For details visit friendsofthetowans.co.uk. To book, phone Martin Rule on 07854 123877.

St Ives and Carbis Bay Memory Café
At the Memorial Hall, Carbis Bay, on the first and third Thursday of every month, 2pm. Music, entertainment, arts and crafts, quizzes, and social interaction. For more information, call 07999 239865.

FRIDAYS

St Ives Arts Club
Coffee morning, 11am-12.30pm. Drop-in session open to all members and their guests, in the upstairs theatre.

Trencrom Ladies Club
Lelant Village Hall, on the second Friday of the month, 2pm-4pm. Talk, visits, light refreshments. All welcome. Members £1, visitors £3. Annual subscription £15, including the year’s programme.

Youth Club
At St Ives Salvation Army Hall, Wharf Road, 7.30pm. For information, call 01736 797746.

SATURDAYS

Friends of St Ives Library (FOSIL)
Super Saturdays are held on the first Saturday of every month in St Ives Libary, from 10am-noon. There is a different theme every month. All welcome. Drinks and cake provided.

SUNDAYS

St Ia Church
Holy Communion, 8am (second and fourth Sunday of the month). 9.45am Sung Eucharist, every Sunday. stiveschurch.org.uk/

St John’s in the Fields
Morning Service, 10am. Wild Church — a service for all ages, in the vicarage garden beside the church — 3.30pm.

Hope Community Church
Morning Service, 10.30am at Lelant Village Hall. To find out more, contact Pastor Rodney Orr on 01736 798530.

ONE-OFF EVENTS

2nd April: History walk from Porthminster to Porthmeor beaches with St Ives Archive trustee Tony Mason. Meet 11am at the Barbara Hepworth statue on the Malakoff. £5 per person – proceeds to the Archive.

4th April: St Ives and Carbis Bay Memory Café at the Memorial Hall, Carbis Bay, with entertainment from the Celtic Fiddlers. The club meets on the first and third Thursday of every month, 2pm. Music, entertainment, arts and crafts, quizzes, and social interaction. For more information, call 07999 239865.

8th April: St Ives Old Cornwall Society. Tony Mason presents a montage of his Cornish Pastyman series of videos of St Ives. Meetings are at the Memorial Hall, Carbis Bay, 7pm. Annual membership £10, casual attendance £2.

12th April: Trencrom Ladies Club: Liz Wood introduces members to Chinese flower art. Lelant Village Hall, 2pm-4pm. All welcome: visitors £3, members £2. Time for tea and a chat afterwards. More information, 01736 753720.

12th April: Lelant Village Hall annual general meeting, 6.30pm. Enjoy a free glass of wine from 6pm. All villagers welcome.

13th April: Monthly meet of American cars and hot rods at the Bird in Hand, Paradise Park, Hayle, 6pm. Details on Facebook.

14th April: Hayle Memory Café at the Rugby Club, Marsh Lane, 2pm. With entertainer Nigel Skews. For people with memory problems, their families, and carers. Come and dance, sing, make things, share things, do quizzes and puzzles, talk, drink tea, and eat cake. Free (but donations always welcome). For more information, call 07513 221066.

22nd April: Book Club at Tretho Lounge, Wharf Road, St Ives, 5pm. Find out more.

25th April: Floristry demonstration evening in aid of Cornwall Hospice Care at St Erth Church Hall, courtesy of Mark Nicholas, of Flowertime, Hayle. Tickets (£10) from Anne (07970 306486), Sue (07551 924697), Janet (07780 355225), or from Flowertime at The Big Pink Tree, Hayle.

2nd May: St Ives and Carbis Bay Memory Café at the Memorial Hall, Carbis Bay, with entertainment from Drums 4 Fun. The club meets on the first and third Thursday of every month, 2pm. Music, entertainment, arts and crafts, quizzes, and social interaction. For more information, call 07999 239865.

13th May: St Ives Old Cornwall Society. Annual meeting followed by Gathering Up The Fragments, a talk by recorder and president Frank Stevens. Meetings are at the Memorial Hall, Carbis Bay, 7pm. Annual membership £10, casual attendance £2.

22nd May: Cornish Song Lines, a talk by Andy Norfolk, at St Ives Guildhall Upper Rooms, 7pm. The second in this year’s series of Secrets of the Stones talks. Find out more and book.

22nd May: Between the Realms — Cornish Myth and Magic, a talk by Cheryl Straffon, at St Ives Guildhall Upper Rooms, 7pm. The third in this year’s series of Secrets of the Stones talks. Find out more and book.

3rd June: St Ives Old Cornwall Society. Talk by Dr Charlotte Mackenzie on the Branwell family, of Penzance. Meetings are at the Memorial Hall, Carbis Bay, 7pm. Annual membership £10, casual attendance £2.