Founded in 1985, the Trust protects historic places across Cornwall, which are all free for the general public to visit. It hosts a wide-reaching programme of wellbeing, education and community workshops, activities and events at these heritage sites and provides grants enabling visits to museums and historic monuments across Cornwall.

Cornwall Heritage Trust CEO, Cathy Woolcock explained: “This grant from Garfield Weston Foundation is fantastic news and will help progress our charitable work enormously. Our charity has been protecting historic landscapes and monuments across Cornwall for the last 40 years, and that work is just as urgently needed now as when we were founded. There are currently 244 sites in Cornwall on the Heritage at Risk Register, and many more which are uncared for and under threat of being lost forever. Our charity is the only organisation in Cornwall actively seeking to save these sites, improve them and share them, free of charge, with the general public.” 

 

“With the cost-of-living crisis and the historically low wages in Cornwall, this, combined with the transport grants and wellbeing, education and engagement programme we offer, has a massive impact on local communities. For a small charity like us, the importance of a grant like this is huge and we are extremely grateful to the Garfield Weston Foundation for its support.”