A Falmouth Christmas

Lights, street theatre, markets, live nativity, running Santas and more besides mean that that Falmouth is the town to visit this year for Christmas!













Check out the schedule here - Falmouth Christmas

Falmouth Spring Festival

Falmouth Spring Festival schedule is taking shape rather nicely.

The festival brings an explosion of early colour, life and activity to the town. Paint the Town Yellow Day sees thousands of daffodils being donated to hundreds of businesses by the school-children of Falmouth, Run Falmouth is the town’s annual half-marathon running event in partnership with Cornwall Hospice Care while the two-day Folk & Cider Fayre will bring great food, drink and music to Events Square.

Don’t miss it!

Main activity dates so far:

12 March - Paint The Town Yellow Day

12-13 March - Community Spring Clean Up days

14 March - Games & Fitness on The Moor

15 March - Run Falmouth half-marathon event

21-22 March - Spring Flower Show

28-29 March - Folk and Cider Fayre on Events Square

Keep an eye out via www.falmouth.co.uk for the schedule as it builds! 

Government Visit

The Falmouth Town Team hosted a visit on Wednesday 15TH October, by a senior team from the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) who came down to Cornwall to review the active BID scene that exists here. There are seven Business Improvement Districts now operating in towns and areas of Cornwall, representing and supporting over 3,500 businesses - the highest number of BIDS in any one local authority area in the UK, outside of London. There are over 180 BIDs in the UK.

The visit is part of a UK-wide tour of BID towns and cities and will inform a report to be submitted to Government at a later date, on the UK high street and BIDs, highlighting areas of good practice as well as challenges to growth.

The Town Team for Falmouth (Falmouth Business Improvement District working together with Falmouth Town Management) has been operational for five years and is the only such public-private partnership in Cornwall. The Town Team is the management resource for Falmouth, delivering the town’s major festivals, destination marketing campaigns, public realm improvements, business training and more.

The visit follows on from a week in which Southend BID visited the Town Team to look at the Falmouth partnership model and contact made by Belfast City Council who are also looking at the Town Team partnership idea.

SPLASH 2014

We have another lovely little activity as part of SPLASH called the Face of Falmouth. Head to the new North 55 Gallery on Church St during SPLASH week & contribute to a community-led picture! The finished painting will then be auctioned off with the proceeds going to the RNLI

Full SPLASH rundown can be viewed here - SPLASH 2014

Falmouth's event of the decade!

Falmouth Tall Ships Regatta 2014, what an event!

Over 200,000 visitors filled the streets, over 40 tall ships in the Docks and marina. Street theatre, dancing, live music, fireworks, access to the ships and all FREE! hundreds of volunteers and organisations came together to put on, as only Falmouth can, the most memorable of events.

Images from the wonderful Parade of Sail day can be viewed here - PARADE OF SAIL

Falmouth Tall Ships - the main event!

28-31 August

It's nearly here, 7 days and counting until the biggest event Cornwall will see in a while, hits Falmouth! This is it, the big one.

46 tall ships including 1 A class vessels will provide a wonderful backdrop for Falmouth for 4 days. In addition to the fantastic sights on the water, a wide array of superb shore-side activities have been planned - fireworks, digital displays, live music at multiple venues, crew parade, street theatre and dance, funfairs, giant helter skelter you name it's happening!

Our official social media channels are:

Facebook: Falmouth Cornwall UK

Instagram: loveFalmouth

Twitter: @FalmouthTownUK

For travel, car parking and other info do check out www.falmouthtallships.co.uk   

Falmouth Week around the corner

With Falmouth Week just around the corner, it's about time we pointed you in the right direction to get all the lowdown on what's going on. 

A great shoreside events programme that includes the Red Arrows, Animal bike display team, Science in the Square, Music on The Moor, Events Square sessions including Toyah Willcox and East 17, aligned with some spectacular sailing will make this one of the best years ever!
FALMOUTH WEEK WEBSITE IS HERE