Penlee Family Project

14/10/2026

14/10/2026

What fun we had last Friday when Volunteer Cornwall came along to help make and serve healthy pancakes! The children from Little Hearts joined us in the afternoon…after we had eaten lunch but just in time for pudding 🎉❤️. We are planning a shared lunch with the children and look forward to this social occasion.

In the morning we began some Christmas sewing, played Bingo, enjoyed catching up with one another and partaking in the all important refreshments. We began thinking about where to go for Christmas lunch too 🎅.

This Friday we start with bacon baps, a hearty stew for lunch - be rest assured, we enjoy our food here at Friday Friendship! During the morning, Trev Smitheron from Hayle, a great public speaker will be talking to us about his life and the bravery of Hayle born Rick Rescorla who was an absolute hero at the 9/11 terrorist attack.

We hope to continue with Christmas prep, our Peer Support in the afternoon and planning the younger people’s trip to Burger Night on Monday the 19th October. We are busy - time 🕰️ flies by but Fridays can never come fast enough for many of us.

10/10/2026

Today we resurrected aspects of Portreath Pantry which in many ways was the foundations for our lovely Penlee Family Project. Today, in our Penlee Aprons and with ‘ hundreds’ of little tomatoes from our poly tunnel we supported Love Portreath at St.Mary’s Church, at their community breakfast.

We had not forgotten our serving skills, always with a smile, our ability to be warm and inviting and along with Portreath Parishioners volunteering, we served well over 60 breakfasts, multiple cups of tea and coffee, set up, cleared away and enjoyed ourselves from start to finish! It was great to see people from the project popping in for breakfast too.

All food was sourced from local growers, eggs from Farmer Shaun, Bread from Berryman’s, Etherington’s sausages and 🥐 from the Co-op. Tomatoes from Penlee 🎉. Clipper Tea and Fairtrade coffee. We had a Fairtrade stall with people supporting by buying and learning more about this great organisation/movement.

A great morning with Penlee helping where they could and being part of the Community Breakfast.🥞

08/10/2026

As well as the delivery we do each week here at Penlee, today we met to discuss Peer Support and how this can be strengthened at Penlee.

We strive to listen to you - the parents, children, adults, those who can often stay quiet 🤫 and yet have much to offer from their observations and their daily lives. You are important and shape what we do and we recognise the strength of the support you give to one another too.

We are planning a session with babies and older adults in a local Care Home, we are thinking about expanding some of the Baby work and strengthening our Peer Support in all of our groups. Using shared experiences we can come together, build trust, reduce stigma, and show that the challenges we all face can be overcome. This is how we grow and how our communities grow, from small acorns grow mighty oak trees! We see this in our work at Penlee, with those who use our services and our volunteers.

We have the added joy of seeing new babies, watching them develop, we see their first steps and the tremendous growth of their brains in the all important early years. We often say what a privilege it is to be part of this, to be delivering for the wonderful families in our area.

Tomorrow we have our regular Friday Group with our older age group and look forward to Healthy Cornwall cooking with us, and with the children from Little Hearts Nursery in the afternoon. Our images today capture the span of our work- from babies to older age♥️.

Pop in if you are passing by, we welcome new people and you are assured of a warm welcome. 🤗 Orange Unit, number 4 at Heartlands.

01/10/2026

Friday Friendship tomorrow begins with BRUNCH- tea, coffee, toast, bagels 🥯 with home made blueberry jam or
marmalade- just butter if preferred. Time to chat, look over the new schedule through to December with games to follow including beloved BINGO with prizes.

Circuit Keep Fit at 11.15 in Portreath- a real treat run by a skilled facilitator where we can work on balance, movement and strength. We always enjoy this session and the time at the end too, time to slow down and take deep breaths🧘( in our chairs) and rest our minds as Jon talks us through mindfulness.

Today the prep work with volunteer Paul saw us catching up over coffee, shopping and unloading at our room ready for Sarah’s arrival tomorrow. Kettle will be on and Sarah’s smile as you walk through the door always a ‘ given’ at Friday Friendship.

New members are very welcome, if you find our page and this message and want to pop over to see what we do, please do. Based at Heartlands, Unit 4- the orange door from 10.00.

23/09/2026

Friday will soon be with us and this week we start the morning with an 🇺🇸 feel. Terry will be back from the States and will host doughnuts and maple syrup and corn bread to start the morning. We have a fun quiz prepared and will catch up with one another, begin our planning through to Christmas and enjoy being together at our room at Heartlands.

At 11.30 we have a yoga session in Portreath for those wanting to join, followed by lunch at our Penlee room, Peer support and an afternoon activity.

See you at 10.00 on Friday 🎉💪🏽.

19/09/2026

So lovely to have the children from Little Hearts Nursery join us each week at our Friday Friendship group.