Saturday 18th February – Tregony Pantomime, Matinee – £4.00
Thursday 23rd February – St Austell Shopper or Pine Lodge Winter Plant Festival, Garden Tour to see the fantastic woodland snowdrops. Discounted entry at the gate £6.00. Bus £5.00

Sunday 4th March – St Piran’s Day annual processional play across the dunes to St Piran’s Cross. £7.50
Thursday 14th March – Carnon Downs Garden Centre/Falmouth Shopper – £5.50

Wednesday 28th March – Mystery Trip £11
Saturday 31st March Cornwall Garden Society Spring Flower Show Boconnoc £13 inc entry

To book a place on the excursions or to hire the bus for your outing please telephone the Millennium rooms on 01326 270440.

The Roseland Community bus is also available for groups to hire at a reasonable cost.We are looking for more people to join our team of volunteer drivers.

This year the Roseland Community Transport group, with the help of Fran Bennett, our new co-coordinator plans to set up and develop a voluntary car scheme across the Roseland. Local people working together will run the project to provide necessary transport for residents who are not well enough to use public transport or have no means of private transport.
Volunteer drivers will assist with a variety of trips and will be reimbursed for their travel costs. The scheme will provide transport to hospitals, doctor’s, dentists, opticians etc for appointments or to visit poorly friends and relatives. Passengers will be asked to make a contribution to the travel costs.
For further information and to discuss becoming a volunteer OR if you have a need for transport, contact Fran Bennett on 07580-112859 or email us at Roselandcommtrans@yahoo.co.uk

We held our 4th Annual General Meeting on 24th June, the summary of the year was:

We started off the year by launching our dial-a-ride scheme. With a core of three drivers willing to give their time and two others who could occasionally do the odd run it was always going to be a struggle to get the scheme off the ground. Unfortunately after running it for six months we only had a few people take up the opportunities it offered and had to give up on the idea. The next project we are looking into is the possibility of setting up a volunteer car scheme to run alongside the bus, and hopefully this will prove more popular. We will be handing out questionnaires and gaining your opinions at the local fairs and events around the Roseland this summer. Please come and talk to us.

We have introduced two new roles to the committee this year, that of Maintenance coordinator to oversee the checking of the bus and organising our maintenance schedule and a fundraising coordinator to organise our fund raising activities. We thank Dave Giles, Philip Rundle and Wendy Rundle for taking on these roles.

The end of this year has seen us take the decision to increase our fees. They have not been increased since we started in 2007 and with the higher fuel and maintenance costs; it was a necessary decision we had to make.

The bus has been out on 20 excursions which have been very successful. We have visited Trevarno, Trebah, Pencarrow, Royal Cornwall Show, St. Austell, Trago, been on Mystery Trips, been to see productions at The Minack Theatre and Hall for Cornwall. Our most successful excursions are to the gardens and houses around Cornwall closely followed by the Mystery Trips that Peter Messer-Bennetts put on, thank you Peter. We must also thank The Millennium Rooms who continue to take our bookings.

We would like to finish by thanking all the community groups who have hired the bus this year.

Our up and coming excursions for the summer are:

Philleigh Fair – 4th August – £2

Tregony Heavy Horse Show – 8th August – £2

Trago shopper – 10th August – leaving St. Mawes 9am – £6

Fowey Regatta to see the Red Arrows – Leave St. Mawes 1pm – £6

West of England Steam Fair – 21st August – leave St. Mawes – 9.30am – £6

Portscatho Regatta – 28th August – £2

St. Ives via the train from St. Erth – 8th Sptember – Bus only – £7

Padstow for lunch – 19th September – leave St. Mawes 10am – £9.50

We pick up passengers from anywhere on the Roseland. To book a seat telephone the Millennium Rooms on 01326 270440

Friday 2nd July – Minack Theatre – to see – West Side Story - £20.00 for ticket and travel. Leaving 11am, matinee performance. A musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by the Full Tilt Theatre Company

Tuesday 20^th July – A Day on the Lizard – A Peter Messer-Bennetts organised trip – Leave 9.30am back by 6pm – £10.00.

Over the summer going to some of our local fetes and fun days, so why don’t you use the bus to go these fantastic events.

Wednesday 21^st July – Philleigh Hog Roast – £2.00

Wednesday 4^th August – Philleigh Fair - £2.00

Sunday 8^th August – Tregony Heavy Horse Show – £2.00

Just to remind you, we pick up from anywhere on The Roseland and to book a seat telephone the Millennium Rooms on 01326 270440

So far we have not had a great response to our idea of setting up a volunteer car service to get people to healthcare appointments. While we are visiting the local fetes we will be asking people for their points of view, so please come on over and talk to us.

If Roseland Community Transport is to continue we need to start raising some extra funds. We need the fundraising to help maintain the bus we currently have and to put some money away for a new bus we will need to purchase in the near future. We do not get any financial help from outside organisations, all the money we have is from hires and excursions, so thank you for keeping the bus on the road.  We will be holding some fundraising events between now and Christmas, so keep a look out for our advertisements.

Have a nice summer.