Transforming Mission troubles in Camborne: local press publishes churchgoers' letters
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...