Drop-in Days at Cornwall College St Austell

Tuesday 24^th August from 11am – 6pm and Wednesday 25^th August from 10am – 5pm

If you’re getting GCSE or A-level results this summer and want advice on what to do next at Cornwall College, help is available at our Advice Session.

Also if you’re an adult looking to return to education and training, we have an expert team of advisors on hand to help you get on track.

• Find out which courses still have places available
• Get help with applications, finance and transport
• Talk to tutors about the wide range of courses available

To find out more call 0845 22 32 567 today. 

Many thanks

Kerri

Kerri Popperwell

Marketing Executive | Cornwall College

01726 226462 | E: kerri.popperwell@cornwall.ac.uk

The Breakfast Club due on Friday 6th August has been rearranged & will now takes place on Friday 1st of October at The White Hart 8.00am.  The speaker will be Stephen Bohane Operations Manager for South West Regional Development Agency.  Your chance to find out exactly whats going on & ask any questions you may have.  On top of that enjoy a full English Breakfast & enjoy the company.  Ring or e-mail for ticket forms.

The St Austell Chamber has taken over the  Loyalty Card Scheme. The cards already in existence are still valid but a relaunch will take place in September.  These schemes have been successful in other parts of the county, Falmouth, St Ives, Camborne, Hayle, Penzance and Newquay. Each town has dozens of businesses on board from pubs and cafes to hairdressers, clothes shops, jewellers and mechanics.

Here is how it works:

We provide each participating business with a St Austell Shopper sticker for the window.

Shoppers buy a loyalty card for £3, which entitles them to 10% off at all participating businesses. This money will go towards improving St Austell.

Shoppers start spending and your business will reap the rewards of customers staying local and loyal.

If you want to take part email Paul at the Chamber Office on stachamb@btconnect.com or ring the office on 01726 69094 to sign up.

Participating Retailers in St Austell Loyalty Card at present

• Andy’s Flowers
• Alan Leather Associates 
• BG Electrical
• China Clay Country Park
• Cloud 9 Hair Design
• Crown Self Storage
• Crystal Dry Cleaning
• Derek Slaughter Insurance
• Eden Project Shop
• Eliot Marshall Signs
• Kings Kebabs
• Lanna Thai Market
• Lollipops Sweet Shop
• Mill Auto Supplies
• Nicholson’s Electrical
• OXFAM
• Pizza Hut
• Plus Two Menswear
• Smorgers
• St Austell Garden Centre
• Subway
• Talking Heads Hair and Beauty
• Tengo!
• Vitality Hair and Beauty
• White Hart Hotel
• Wilsons Jewellers
• Zada Clothing

The day was organised by St Austell Chamber of Commerce as a one-off event as a contribution to Cornwall Business Week.  Hundreds of people turned out for the family event. As part of the day award winning jugglers & stilt walkers roamed around the town as well as a fitness workout from Polkyth Leisure Centre.  But the main attraction of the day was a Mass Dance organised by Cornwall College, St Austell,  ably co-ordinated by Jo Plester.  After a demonstration from students of the college over 50 dancers took part in the Mass Dance.  It was a good event-a lot of people got involved and the weather really helped.

On Tuesday 18th May a debate took place at the White River Cinema on the future of St Austell.  Organised by St Austell Chamber as their contribution to Cornwall Business Week it took the form of four presentations & a question & answer session.  Paul Scott Chairman of the Chamber introduced the speakers,  Debbie Wiltshire (St Austell College)on Employment & Training, Sam Weller (Cornwall Hotel) on Tourism, John Hodkin (Eco-Bos) on the impact of the Eco Towns & Jeremy Harvey (Coodes) on the MCTI Plan.  Afterwards James Staughton ( St Austell Brewery) chaired the Question Time he introduced Paul Masters (Cornwall Council) & Jacky Swain (The Beach) on to the panel.  Questions came thick & fast & after an hour James brought the debate to a close.  We were then treated to an absolutely superb buffet provided by Malcolm Harris of  The Cafe Academy.  From the feed back we got afterwards the 70 people who attended left well fed & well informed.

Comments:-

Thanks Paul and well done on a highly successful event on Tuesday.

Sam Weller

I thought Tuesday’s event went really well. The venue was ideal for the debate, the speakers spoke well and kept to their time slots with James Staughton doing an excellent job of chairing the debate.  The catering received many compliments and I only heard positive comments about the day.  David Pooley

 I found the meeting both informative and very interesting.  May I also congratulate you on choosing an excellent venue and providing an excellent lunch.  Peter Crawford

Photograghs by Jennette Scott

On Saturday 22nd May the Chamber is hosting a Fun Day in St Austell Town.  Taking part will be Polkth with Fitness Fun in Biddicks Court, Circus Skills in Fore Street, Music & Flash Mob in Aylmer Square organised by St Austell College & The Eden Project in White River Place.  This will take place between 11.00am & 4.00pm, the Flash Mob will take place at 1.00pm, something not to be missed.

 The Debate on the Future of St Austell

This debate which will take place on Tuesday the 18^th May 2010 and will be run by the St. Austell & District Chamber of Commerce & Industry as part of ”Cornwall Business Week”. 

The aim of the debate is to invite a broad selection of people from business, the community and local government to explore the enormous potential of St Austell and the surrounding parishes, which is currently attracting exciting development projects. 

The venue is the White River Cinema St Austell  starting at 11am and finishing by 2.20pm after a buffet lunch.  

The format will be: the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Paul Scott will welcome every one and introduce the speakers then hand over to the debate chairman James Staunton for Question Time. 

There will be four 10 minute presentations and then a chance for the audience to ask questions of a panel of experts. 

Presentations

a)    The local economy, employment and Skills training – Debbie Wiltshire-College Head 

b)     Tourism – Sam Weller – Cornwall Hotel Spa & Estate 

c)     The impact and timing of the ECO Town – Samhi Sawiris – Eco-bos 

d)     The Market and Coastal Town Initiative (MCTi). A forward looking study in to how this area should develop over the next 20 years. -

Question Time The speakers will join James Staunton, the chair, to allow questions and comments to be taken from the audience. This session will last about one hour after which a buffet will be served. 

Buffet – provided by The Café Academy 

NETWORKING 

Sponsors. – Tom French Associates – Stephens Scown – Coodes 

Tickets £10 for booking form e-mail stachamb@btconnct.com

A new wireless CCTV camera is now being used in St Austell. This is a first in Devon & Cornwall. The camera can be assembled & disassembled in about 10 minutes & moved to a different location. It is connected to the CCTV control room at Newquay but can also be accessed by police officers using laptops. It has been used at Poltair Park & at the moment it is at McDonalds where it is monitoring McDonalds the A390 & the retail park.

The Discovery Map Web-site, www.staustellmap.co.uk , is now up & running. This is a superb interactive site includes a Forum, which needs some input. It also includes PDF downloads of 50 car free days out plus the two Discovery Trails. Please make use of this superb facillity.

Two new shops have now opened in White River Place. Rowes Bakeries were the first to open their doors followed shortly afterwards by Game. Two more shops will be opening in the near future with several more on the horizen. On April the 16th Pets at Home will open their new £360,000 store at the old MFI site in Pentewan Retail Park, opposite McDonalds. This will include a Pet Village, Aquatic Centre, Reptile Centre along with a Pet Adoption Centre. A Picnic Time will take place at 3.00pm on week-days & 2.30pm on week-ends. This will allow families to watch the animals being fed with advice on their feeding habits.