Pendennis Leisure is asking the community to join it and local stakeholders at Princess Pavilion at 7pm on Tuesday, May 10 to demonstrate what is really needed and why the community deserves a working swimming and leisure facility.

The fight to reopen Ships and Castles has entered a new stage with Pendennis Leisure working with a Falmouth Town Council to find a viable way for them to take on the headland and leisure centre under Cornwall Council’s Devolution Deal.

The community interest company is exploring funding options and now really wants to engage the communities of Falmouth and Penryn and surrounding areas in agreeing priorities and next steps.

Pendennis Leisure director Matthew Thomson previously told the Packet: “We hope to have representatives from all of Falmouth’s sports clubs and groups there so that we can have a meaningful conversation about what Falmouth’s true needs are, and how best to meet them.”

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Gemma Adams, Pendennis Leisure CIC MD said “While it is crucial that Falmouth Town Council covers off the financial risks of taking on Ships and Castles, the real risk the town needs to address is the risk that our young people miss their chance to learn to swim.

"We are already two years behind because young people couldn’t get access to the pool due to restricted opening and Covid, let alone swimming lessons. If we don’t do everything we can right now to make a pool accessible to them then I am terrified that soon we are going to hear stories of young people drowning. It is fundamentally wrong for a coastal community to have nowhere to learn to swim.”