Neetside Community Centre

19/08/2026

🌿 Have you seen Bude Friends of the Earth's Biodiversity Trail leaflet? 🦋

Created and maintained by Bude Friends of the Earth, the Biodiversity Trail has been designed to enhance and celebrate the wonderful wildlife and green spaces around Neetside and the Castle.

Featuring a beautiful, hand-drawn map, the leaflet guides you around the trail, highlighting some of the fantastic spots that provide valuable habitats for bees, butterflies, birds, bats and hedgehogs, while raising awareness of the vital role pollinators play in our food system. 🌼🐝

The trail even includes the area around our very own Neetside Community Centre!

Along the way, you’ll discover a traditional orchard and wildflower meadow, which Bude Friends of the Earth continue to enhance throughout the year, particularly at blossom time. 🌸

Why not pick up a leaflet and explore the trail for yourself? It’s a lovely way to discover some of Bude’s green spaces, learn more about our local wildlife and see the fantastic work Bude Friends of the Earth are doing to support biodiversity in our community. 🌱

18/08/2026

Thinking about a little extra support for an older loved one at home? 💚

Come and have a chat with Cherie from Home Instead at Neetside Community Centre this Friday morning, 21st August, from 9.30am.

Rated Outstanding by the CQC and named one of the Top 20 Home Care Providers in the South West for 2026, the Home Instead team helps older people continue to live safely and independently in their own homes.

Whether you’d like to know more about personal care, dementia support, companionship, respite, live-in care or end-of-life care, pop in for a cuppa and an informal chat with Cherie about how Home Instead could help. No appointment needed!

📍 Neetside Community Centre, Bude
🕤 9:30am – 1:00pm
📅 This Friday, 21st August – and every 1st & 3rd Friday of the month
📞 01288 377004
📧 [email protected]

14/08/2026

Our friends over at Sustainable Bude are looking to hire someone to help set up and run their new initiative, Bude Library of Things!

If this sounds like it could be right up your street, or you know someone who could fit the bill, please take a look at the details below and/or pass them on to anyone who might be interested. 💚

We're hiring! Sustainable Bude is launching a Library of Things at the Berries Community Café — and we need a Co-ordinator to help set it up and run it. 5 hrs/week, self-employed, 1-year lottery-funded role. Handy, organised, people-person? This one's for you.

For more details please go to https://sustainablebude.org/News/Job-Vacancy-Library-of-Things-Co-ordinator/

02/08/2026

New Recovery College courses coming to Bude this summer and autumn!

Pentreath’s Recovery College will be delivering a range of free courses at Neetside Community Centre throughout July, August and September, helping people across Cornwall to develop practical tools and strategies to support their mental wellbeing.

Courses include:

✨ Anxiety & Stress Less
✨ Assertiveness
✨ Building Self-Esteem and Confidence
✨ Building Resilience
✨ Depression, Low Mood & Coping Strategies
✨ It’s Okay to Be Me

The second in the programme of courses is Assertiveness. Next Thursday, 6th August from 10am-4pm.

Pentreath’s approach focuses on empowering people to become the agents of their own recovery, moving from “make me well” to “teach me the tools to keep myself well.” Their courses are open to anyone in Cornwall aged 18+ experiencing mental ill health who would like support in managing their wellbeing and living the life they choose.

To find out more and book your place, visit the Recovery College website: https://www.pentreath.co.uk/recovery-college-cornwall

Please see the attached poster for full details and dates

31/07/2026

Step Into Wellness is coming to Neetside Community Centre, starting next week! 🌿

Designed around you, this FREE, welcoming programme from Age UK Cornwall helps adults of all ages explore simple, practical ways to improve their health, happiness, and overall wellbeing.

🕥 Sessions run from 10:30am–12:00pm

📅 Week One:
Tuesday 4th August & Wednesday 5th August

📅 Week Two:
Tuesday 11th August & Wednesday 12th August

✨ Live better at every age!

The programme explores five key areas of wellbeing across four sessions:

🤝 Social Connections
Discover how building and maintaining social connections can reduce anxiety and depression, support emotional wellbeing, and help us navigate change and challenging times.

🧘 Mindfulness
Learn techniques to connect with the present moment, helping you manage stress and develop a more positive relationship with yourself and your daily life.

🚶 Physical Activity & Learning New Skills
Explore how simple lifestyle changes and regular movement can boost both physical and mental wellbeing, while learning new skills can bring joy, confidence, and a sense of purpose.

💛 Giving & Course Review
We'll look at how giving time to support others can positively impact our own wellbeing and reflect on everything covered throughout the programme.

🎯 Reflections & Goal Setting
An opportunity to celebrate progress, reflect on your experiences, and set achievable goals for the future.

To book your free place and begin your wellbeing journey, call 01872 266383 or email [email protected], and a member of the team will get back to you.

30/07/2026

🦔 We've got some new residents at Neetside! 🦔

It looks like we've got a family of hedgehogs making themselves at home in the wild garden areas around Neetside. ❤️

This hoglet was found amongst the cars in our parking spaces earlier today by our wonderful Finance Officer, Debby, after a gentleman popped in to let us know he'd seen two hedgehogs exploring the area. Thankfully, it was safely rescued and is now being looked after by the lovely team at Tamar Vets.

With that in mind, we'd like to ask everyone visiting Neetside to please take a little extra care when driving and parking, just in case there are any prickly little pals nearby.

Thank you for helping us keep our newest neighbours safe! ❤️

24/07/2026

Step Into Wellness is coming to Neetside Community Centre this August! 🌿

Designed around you, this FREE, welcoming programme from Age UK Cornwall helps adults of all ages explore simple, practical ways to improve their health, happiness, and overall wellbeing.

🕥 Sessions run from 10:30am–12:00pm

📅 Week One:
Tuesday 4th August & Wednesday 5th August

📅 Week Two:
Tuesday 11th August & Wednesday 12th August

✨ Live better at every age!

The programme explores five key areas of wellbeing across four sessions:

🤝 Social Connections
Discover how building and maintaining social connections can reduce anxiety and depression, support emotional wellbeing, and help us navigate change and challenging times.

🧘 Mindfulness
Learn techniques to connect with the present moment, helping you manage stress and develop a more positive relationship with yourself and your daily life.

🚶 Physical Activity & Learning New Skills
Explore how simple lifestyle changes and regular movement can boost both physical and mental wellbeing, while learning new skills can bring joy, confidence, and a sense of purpose.

💛 Giving & Course Review
We'll look at how giving time to support others can positively impact our own wellbeing and reflect on everything covered throughout the programme.

🎯 Reflections & Goal Setting
An opportunity to celebrate progress, reflect on your experiences, and set achievable goals for the future.

To book your free place and begin your wellbeing journey, call 01872 266383 or email [email protected], and a member of the team will get back to you.

22/07/2026

New Recovery College courses coming to Bude this summer and autumn!

Pentreath’s Recovery College will be delivering a range of free courses at Neetside Community Centre throughout July, August and September, helping people across Cornwall to develop practical tools and strategies to support their mental wellbeing.

Courses include:

✨ Anxiety & Stress Less
✨ Assertiveness
✨ Building Self-Esteem and Confidence
✨ Building Resilience
✨ Depression, Low Mood & Coping Strategies
✨ It’s Okay to Be Me

The first course, Anxiety & Stress Less, begins on 30th July.

Pentreath’s approach focuses on empowering people to become the agents of their own recovery, moving from “make me well” to “teach me the tools to keep myself well.” Their courses are open to anyone in Cornwall aged 18+ experiencing mental ill health who would like support in managing their wellbeing and living the life they choose.

To find out more and book your place, visit the Recovery College website: https://www.pentreath.co.uk/recovery-college-cornwall

Please see the attached poster for full details and dates

15/07/2026

Hirer Update - John Walter

Some news worth sharing: my new website is live, and my focus has sharpened with it. I'm now a counsellor specialising in couples and relationship work, with individual counselling and work with children and young people continuing alongside.

Plenty of counsellors see couples alongside other work; for me it's the centre. It's where most of my hours go, and it's the focus of my ongoing advanced training in relational psychotherapy at the NAOS Institute.

Couples counselling is for any couple: married or not, new or decades in, LGBTQ+ couples included. If things between you have gone flat, stuck, or distant, that's the work I do, in person here at Neetside and online.

A word on timing, since I know the centre hears from people weighing up mediation. Mediation isn't work I offer. But many couples reach that point having never had a room to talk in, and coming earlier, while things are strained rather than ended, changes what's possible. And where a relationship is ending anyway, counselling can help two people part with less damage done, which matters most when children are involved.

Individual counselling is open to women and men alike. Whatever you're carrying, loss, anxiety, a life change, or something harder to name, you don't need the right words to begin.

I also see children and young people, in person in Bude. If you're a parent or carer wondering whether counselling might help your child, I'm glad to talk it through.

I've a few places open at the moment, and the first step is always a free phone call: no forms, no commitment, just a conversation. Ring 07501 222779 or visit www.johnwaltercounsellor.com

12/07/2026

CALLING ALL QUIZZERS!!! 🎉

Join us at our sister site, Berries Community Café, next Saturday (18th July) for our BIG FAT BERRIES QUIZ! 🎉

It's only £5 per person, with teams of up to 6 people. There will be drinks and nibbles available by donation, and all proceeds will go straight back into funding Berries and the activities we provide.

Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start. Just scan the QR code in the attached image or book here: https://forms.gle/VJVX9Pv6sw1LZ7xK6

Gather your team, put your knowledge to the test, enjoy plenty of laughs, and compete for quiz glory.

We can't wait to see you there! 💛