Ever wondered what the Swellboard Shootout is all about? Here’s a quick overview of what to expect on one of the best weekend’s of the year in St Ives.

St Ives Farmers Market is a GOLD award winning, well established and TASTY community landmark in the heart of the town. The market runs every Thursday from 9.30am – 2pm at the Guildhall, all year round. There is something for everyone and it is not to be missed.

24 hours in St Ives is not long enough to do everything but it is long enough to get whet your appetite for a longer stay next time. Read our blog for our top tips on how to spend one day in St Ives from morning till night.

Happy New Year to all our friends, family, lovers and guests. We had a great time over NYE so thank you to everyone who joined us… and here’s what we’re planning in 2019.

In November 2018 we won not one but two GOLD awards. One for Tourism Innovation at the Cornwall Tourism Awards and one for Best Accommodation at the British Youth & Travel Awards.

Confusion is a huge barrier to people not recycling plastic, here we try and explain the codes, what they mean and what you can be doing to assist in the recycling of all plastics! We believe that it’s too important an issue for confusion to be an acceptable reason not to recycle.

The crisis of plastic in our environments has been highly publicised for several years now. Major organisations, businesses and the government are making moves to address the over consumption of plastic in our society. The Plastic Free Communities initiative is a grassroots movement to push the over-use of plastic onto the public agenda and also into the political arena.

For us in St Ives… the question is never ‘Where are you spending NYE?’ but ‘What are you going as this year?’. It’s a given that if you live anywhere near St Ives you’ll be spending NYE at one of the UK’s biggest street parties dressed up as something amazing and/or ridiculous.

Download our FREE guide to planning your class art trip in St Ives. This eBook covers everything you’ll need to build your art trip itinerary in St Ives. It includes tips on the best views for sketching through to details of artist educators, workshops and art institutions in and around St Ives.

Cohort’s team found themselves in the unique situation of having to escape from a prison they voluntarily checked themselves into. Perfect rainy day activity in St Ives and superb fun. Read about what we’re allowed to tell you (which isn’t much!).