Save The Parish - Cornwall

The statement below was published on Truro Cathedral website on Monday 7 October 2025 regarding Rev Canon Alan Bashforth. Only in the penultimate paragraph does it state that the requirement to undertake the Safeguarding Risk Assessment 'was not a result of police investigation or a safeguarding concern involving children'.  Click here to view the statement on the Cathedral website.    The Rt Revd Hugh Nelson, Bishop of St Germans, recently met with Alan Bashforth to discuss the outcome of an independent safeguarding risk assessment. Alan has received the report and has had the opportunity to provide feedback to the assessor. After careful consideration of the findings and following appropriate professional advice, Bishop Hugh has made the decision that Alan will not be returning to his duties at the cathedral. We recognise that this decision may have a significant emotional impact on those involved and affected. In line with our commitment t...

Penwith's much-discussed and delayed On The Way plan has faltered and will be reviewed under the deanery's new Strategic Rural Dean, Rev. Adam Thomas, according to the October edition of Penwith Deanery News. A public meeting will be held at Paul Church Hall on Saturday 15 November to discuss this. "In Penwith the Deanery Plan has faltered," writes Rev Thomas in the newsletter, adding that the deanery now is very different to when the plan was written. Click here to read the most recent version of Penwith Deanery Plan available on the Diocesan website. "There is a need to reset relationships within the Deanery and beyond. There are still many hurts that have persisted since the start of the On The Way process and we collectively need to capture what those are.   "There is a growing eagerness and willingness to work more closely together, support one another and reset what we can collectively achieve." In the newsletter, Rev Thomas says the review...

West Briton, 2 October 2025 Controversy continues this week in Camborne, west Cornwall, as the local press published letters from present, and former, church goers  - the latter a couple who left after feeling they had been sidelined at Camborne Church. Congregations in surrounding churches - as well as Camborne - remain anxious and unsettled by the lack of clarity around the expensive Transforming Mission scheme running in the area - which has absorbed more than £750,000 of Church Commissioners' funds and Diocesan reserves since 2019. The exact figures are hard to establish as - despite repeated requests - local PCCs (Parochial Church Councils) have not had sight of either management, or operational, accounts - despite having been assured by the Rt Rev Hugh Nelson, Bishop of St Germans, that they have the right to see them.  In August, churchgoers from Camborne, Tuckingmill, Penponds, Treslothan and Crowan - dissuaded by senior figures in the Diocese from meeting at Cam...