Cornwall Climate Care Film Screening and Charity Banquet at Boconnoc House
You are invited to Cornwall Climate Care‘s film screening and charity banquet at Boconnoc House, Lostwithiel.
Put on your best Cornish chic and join us for an evening of the following:
An Exclusive Film Screening
After welcome drinks, move through to the smoking room for a special screening of Hungry for Change. Presented by St Ives forager Josh Quick, this is Cornwall Climate Care’s latest film looking at the climate impacts of our broken food system and the inspiring projects working to tackle it. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and guests, including:
– Olivia Champion, microbiologist at Entec Nutrition
– Matthew Thomson, director of Sustainable Food Cornwall
– Ste Davies, director of Falmouth Food Co-op
Watch the film trailer here.
A Low-Carbon Gourmet Banquet
Next you will get the chance to experience a meal like no other! Featuring food and delicacies from the film, you will be treated to a fine three-course banquet using culled venison, ‘waste’ supermarket food, foraged wild plants and other surprises.
Meat and plant-based options are available (please indicate your preference and any dietary requirements when purchasing your ticket. The meat option is venison, so if this is not to your taste, please select ‘plant-based’).
After Dinner Speaker – Rewilding Specialist Derek Gow
Can we really afford to give up space for rewilding projects on an overcrowded island that needs to increase its food security?
Derek Gow, a farmer turned passionate conservationist, believes not only that we can, but that we must.
Prepare to be challenged, amused, enraged and surprised by this talk, which may overturn many of your assumptions about how we use our land in the UK.
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Derek has played significant roles in the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver, the water vole and the white stork to England. He is currently rewildling parts of his 300 acre farm while also working to reintroduce the wildcat.
He has published several books and his story has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Ecologist and more.
“Gow has a fire in his belly. We need more like him.”—BBC Wildlife magazine
Image Credit: Jonny Weeks
Live Music by Cornish Artist Jenny Bishop
A songwriter, performer, media composer and sound designer based in Cornwall, Jenny has provided beautiful soundtracks for two of Cornwall Climate Care’s films to date – Food for Thought and Hungry for Change.
Silent Auction
There will be the opportunity for you to win some fantastic prizes in our silent auction – with all proceeds going to Cornwall Climate Care to help fund future films about climate issues and the local businesses and individuals working hard to tackle them. Funds also go towards our new school climate workshop programme.
Tickets
If you would like to join us for the evening please purchase your tickets here.
Tickets are available at a special price of £75 for a limited time only – book by 17th August 2023. After that the price will increase to the standard £90.
However, you may select the standard price (£90) even if booking earlier if you would like and are able to provide extra funding to support the work of our charity. Thank you.
We look forward to welcoming you at Boconnoc!
Getting there… by rail or car
By rail
Boconnoc is close to Lostwithiel Station, which is on the main London-Penzance line. On Oct 19, the last train from Lostwithiel to Plymouth leaves at 22:11, while the last train for Penzance is at 23:23.
Local taxi firms to ferry you between the station and Boconnoc include Rogers on 01208-873324, Lostwithiel Town Cars on 07760303515, or KP Cars on 01726-815415.
By car
Please do NOT follow your satnav as it will not bring you in to the estate and you are likely to get
lost. Please make sure you use the directions below.
If possible use What3Words to reach the front of the main house: ///waking.trial.balanced
FROM A30
At Bodmin come off the A30 and follow signs for the A38 to Liskeard. Get on the A38.
2 miles approx. after Bodmin Parkway Station, turn right (signposted to East and West Taphouse and Looe/Polperro – B3359). Continue to the “T” junction.
Turn left onto A390, go to East Taphouse. Turn RIGHT onto B3359 signed Looe/Polperro & Boconnoc).
Approximately 1 mile along the B3359 take the 1st right signed Boconnoc (with a tiny sign)
Then take immediate left signed Boconnoc and 1st right about 1/3 of a mile down the road signed Boconnoc.
Go to crossroad with lodge by the gate where the sign says Boconnoc, Private Road. Drive straight through there and follow the signs to Boconnoc which take you along the road round to the left, down a long straight drive to a tall stone obelisk. Follow the road round to the left, past another lodge and straight down the hill until you get to the main house.
Stewards will show you where to park.
FROM A38 from Plymouth direction
At EAST Taphouse, go round a bend and up the hill after garage on the right
Take next left, signposted to Looe / Polperro B3359 & Boconnoc.
Approximately 1 mile along the B3359 take the 1st right signed Boconnoc (with a tiny sign)
Then take immediate left signed Boconnoc and 1st right about 1/3 of a mile down the road signed Boconnoc.
Go to crossroad with lodge by the gate where the sign says Boconnoc, Private Road. Drive straight through there and follow the signs to Boconnoc which take you along the road round to the left, down a long straight drive to a tall stone obelisk. Follow the road round to the left, past another lodge and straight down the hill until you get to the main house.
Stewards will show you where to park.
From A390 from St Austell
Go through Lostwithiel on A390, towards Liskeard. Go to EAST Taphouse.
1st turn right (signposted Looe / Polperro B3359 & Boconnoc).
Approximately 1 mile along the B3359 take the 1st right signed Boconnoc (with a tiny sign)
Then take immediate left signed Boconnoc and 1st right about 1/3 of a mile down the road signed Boconnoc.
Go to crossroad with lodge by the gate where the sign says Boconnoc, Private Road. Drive straight through there and follow the signs to Boconnoc which take you along the road round to the left, down a long straight drive to a tall stone obelisk. Follow the road round to the left, past another lodge and straight down the hill until you get to the main house.
Stewards will show you where to park.