Keep it Cornish
Please note this campaign is not currently active.
Keep it Cornish is about helping Cornwall to bounce forward after lockdown by working together to keep money in Cornwall - and attracting more trade in.
It's also a place for Cornwall's businesses to swap ideas on adapting to the new normal post-lockdown, access training and find the best places to get advice.
Let's help Cornwall accelerate out of the pandemic by choosing Cornish. Let's shop and do business in a more sustainable way - being aware of how production miles affect our carbon footprint. Let's be proud and spread the word about our award winning and accredited Cornish products and services.
Keep it Cornish stories
Has your businesses adapted to meet the challenges you faced during lockdown or since reopening? Have you changed what products your sell or how you sell them?
Do you ensure your supply chains are as Cornish as possible? Do you intend to in the future?
Did your business provide help to vulnerable people in our community during lockdown?
Please share you experiences; photos and videos of how your business is bouncing forward - and inspire others to do the same.
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Storylines – the art of sharing stories amid crisis
SSE Cornwall Fellow Sarah Trevillion from Storylines CIC has had to come up with creative solutions in order to keep her business running amidst Covid-19...
Stories of kindness, resourcefulness and community
With the recent unfolding of the coronavirus pandemic, the Storylines team felt compelled to do something. So, with funding from FEAST, we have launched the Kemeneth Project, which aims to gather and share personal stories that speak of kindness, resourcefulness and community.
Although this is a challenging time, it is also an opportunity to reflect and reimagine how we engage with each other and the world. Now, more... Continue reading
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Make it better – creative efforts to build creative community
SSE Cornwall Trade-Up student Ruth Purdy has continued to provide her creative services – albeit in a different way – in light of Covid-19...
Make It Better (Mitber for short) CIC was founded in 2017 to support and bring communities together through creativity and the arts. Mitber provides arts and making sessions, digital arts sessions, creative activity boxes and weekly downloadable activity sheets, for care professionals, volunteers, families and other groups.
We have flourished and grown as an organisation that cares deeply for the health and wellbeing of individuals in our communities. When discussing her inspiration for starting the organisation... Continue reading
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Lynher CIC – always striving for plain sailing
SSE Cornwall Community Business Trade Up Fellow Barbara Bridgman from Lynher CIC has had to adapt during the pandemic...
Lynher CIC was established in 2016 to save the Tamar sailing barge Lynher from demolition. Directors Dominic and Barbara Bridgman, based at Cremyll, South East Cornwall, started the restoration project by using their own funds to save the barge. Following a successful Lottery application and community engagement to continue the conservation effort to make Lynher’s hull watertight, on 7th May 2017 Lynher was re-launched after 14 years out of the water.
It took another two years to complete the work on... Continue reading
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Arts Well – creativity has never been so important
SSE Cornwall Start-Up Fellow and Trade-Up student Jayne Howard from Arts Well CIC has had to adapt in light of Covid-19...
Arts Well is a social enterprise with the aim of championing the role of the arts, culture and creativity in improving health and wellbeing for individuals, groups and communities. Established in 2017, Arts Well works in collaboration with other organisations, large and small, to develop projects and programmes that respond to identified need and add value to the work of others.
Our work rests on a belief that the arts, culture and creativity are fundamental to our wellbeing and... Continue reading
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Go Digital not Stir Crazy
As a micro business and sole trader I am totally reliant on the craft fairs I attend and workshops that I run. Having spent a couple of months restocking ready for the Spring season to commence, Covid-19 came along and that was the end of that.
Well at least one of the benefits of being so small is the ability to adapt. So the Managing Director got together with the Marketing Director, Head of Finance and Chief Designer and I had a conversation with myself.
We were all in agreement that digital was the way forward. I spent several weeks... Continue reading
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Businesses look to the future
Businesses across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have been using the enforced lull in activity caused by the coronavirus pandemic to look at how they can do things differently and change tack in the future.
According to the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Growth Hub, the initial shock that followed the lockdown in late March has for many businesses given way to a more reflective mood as they contemplate a future that is unlikely to be the same again.
One business taking stock is Porthleven-based design company Design79. Director Simon Green said he was using lockdown as a time... Continue reading
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Seafood Cornwall responds to lockdown with #FishToYourDoor scheme
Lockdown brought with it a fair amount of uncertainty but it also presented opportunities for businesses to adapt. In the case of the fishing industry, many fishers were still working hard at sea, but with a dwindling number of buyers for their catch, we at Seafood Cornwall knew something needed to be done.
#FishToYourDoor was launched as a direct response to lockdown life, and match-makes fish merchants and fishmongers with potential buyers in Cornwall and beyond. Within the first week of launching, we had over 1000 enquiries from interested customers! Fast forward a couple of months, and over 5000 connections... Continue reading
