Events

For more information on any of the events listed below please contact our Hon. Secretary, Jacqueline Perez at: cornwall@ousoc.oxon.org

Events planned for 2026

Do please let Jacqueline Perez know if you would like to reserve places at any of these events.

Lunch at Rick Stein’s Padstow. 7th February 2026

Our annual lunch at Rick Stein’s. The cost this year will be £65, please contact Jacqueline Perez to reserve a place.

Our guest speaker will be Pat Tyrrell, OBE, who will be talking to us about his extraordinary career in the Royal Navy, NATO, and Defence Intelligence, ‘A Spy through the Periscope’. 

Attendance at Events

Please note that partners of members are more than welcome to attend all our events, as are friends when availability allows.

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PAST EVENTS

Antony lunch, 19th July 2024

This annual event is our major fundraiser for the Bursary Fund and is very generously provided by Andrew Willoughby at his home in Antony. Approximately 40 people attended, including 12 from Devon. £2585 was raised for the Bursary Fund.  It was a beautiful sunny day and we were entertained by the Halfway Harmony singers, as usual.

Padstow lunch, 3rd February 2024

76 attended the event. The speaker was Michelle Brown, Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the University of London.  Michelle spoke about Cornwall’s contact with the Mediterranean and the Middle East during pre-history and the early Middle Ages.

Visit to the Cornish Labyrinth at Colliford Lake

45 people enjoyed a visit to ‘Kerdroya’, the 56 metre labyrinth next to Colliford lake. The group enjoyed a site visit in the sun guided by the always enthusiastic Will Coleman.

Trelissick

Our annual visit to Trelissick took place on Thursday 24 November. Two interesting talks were given on projects that had been partially funded by our bursaries. Helen Carasso’s topic was ‘Modernism in west Cornwall – the story of Penzance’s Jubilee Pool’. Alex Midlen spoke on ‘African Seas – a journey into the future of ocean management in the western Indian Ocean’.  Alex visited the coast of Kenya and the Seychelles to understand the challenges facing the emerging blue economy of the east coast of Africa.

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KRESEN KERNOW

Twenty of us very much enjoyed a conducted tour of the iconic new centre for the Cornwall Archive in Redruth – Kresen Kernow. Tamsin Mallet, the Collections and Development Manager, explained the story of the converted brewery building and took a group of us round, while another group was shown a selection of historic maps and other documents by Catherine Lorigan, our former Secretary. We then enjoyed soup and sandwiches while agreeing that the visit had much exceeded our expectations.