Bude Canal and Harbour Society

Registered Charity no. 1086646

2023 marked 200 years since the start of trade on the 35.5 mile Bude Canal and since 2001 the Society’s Charity Trustees have dedicated themselves to its’ conservation, rejuvenation and restoration so everyone has access now and for future generations.

The Bude Canal is actually owned by Cornwall Council as are the Sea Lock, historic Sand Railway and Breakwater. The Society’s Trustees aim to ensure the Council are aware of the Canal’s importance and historic value.

The BCHS works with the Town Council to open the Barge Workshop at Helebridge on Sunday afternoons in the summer months and also attend events such as Heritage Day. A quarterly newsletter booklet keeps people informed throughout the year as does the website with its wealth of downloadable maps, surveyor’s notes, panels, and hundreds of regeneration photographs.

Bude Climate Partnership CIC

Bringing business, the community and visitors together across the Bude area to build economic, social and environmental resilience in a changing climate.

Six key projects: Sustainable Tourism; Shoreline Resilience; Energy Efficiency: Library of Things; Community Storytelling; Community Growing Funded by a £2m grant from The National Lottery Community Fund's Climate Action Fund.

We are: Bude Area Tourist Board Limited; Bude Climate Partnership CIC; Bude Coastal Community Team CIC; Bude Community Network Panel; Bude Friends of the Earth; Bude-Stratton Community Project; Bude-Stratton Town Council; Community Energy Plus; Connect Bude; Cornwall Grows CIC; Friends of Bude Sea Pool; ReFill Shop Bude CIC; Westcountry Rivers Trust; Widemouth Taskforce.

01288 255 665
info@budeclimate.org

Bude Pride Education CIC

Bude Pride is an LGBTQ+ Community Interest Company that takes an intersectional approach towards facilitating equality through means of education, local safe spaces and positive representation. By collaborating with local educational facilities, mental health initiatives and businesses, together we can work towards the prevention of ignorance-based prejudice; ensuring that everyone feels able to be their authentic selves.

budepride@gmail.com

Connect Bude

Campaigning to re-connect Bude and Holsworthy to the National Railway Network.

Here are our aims:
- To campaign to reconnect Bude and Holsworthy initially via Okehampton.
- To promote the new hourly rail service between Okehampton, Exeter and beyond.
- To ensure the trackbed of the former railway is protected against further development.
- To garner widespread community support of individuals, elected representatives and businesses in order to achieve the first three objectives.

Friends of Bude Community Responders

The company’s activities will provide benefit to:

- Supporting our Local Communities by affording the best possible chances of survival and well-being, both physical and mental, for those in time-critical need, particularly in remote rural areas such as Bude and North Cornwall
- Supporting the development and expansion of the local provision made by the Bude Community First Responders by providing enhanced equipment and resources, over and above that provided by the NHS, to enable our local Community First Responders to develop and expand their operational capabilities and react appropriately at any time, day or night, year round.
- Recruiting and training more Volunteers as First Responders and more Volunteer Helpers within our local communities.
- Facilitating sources of help and support for the physical and mental health, and well-being, of our Communities, and, that of our Bude Community First Responders, as by the very nature of the work they do, often exposed to traumatic and disturbing events, cannot be underestimated.

We are looking for volunteers to assist us in supporting this vital service at a time when the NHS Trust is over-stretched and cannot fund some of the work our volunteer local Community First Responders urgently need

Contact Paddy Frost on 07989 356 800

Friends of Bude Sea Pool

Bude Sea Pool is a semi-natural tidal pool and is a safe haven for wild swimming on the edges of the Atlantic Ocean. There is no cost, no booking nor any other imposed restriction. Bude Sea Pool is for everyone to enjoy for free.

Bude Sea Pool is preserved and enhanced, as well as kept safe and free by the charity, Friends of Bude Sea Pool (FoBSP). FoBSP is a company limited by guarantee (#07630060) and a registered charity trust (#1143156), at Bude EX23 8LE. The Charity aims ‘to preserve, improve and enhance the historic Sea Pool at Summerleaze Beach, Bude, Cornwall, as an amenity for the benefit of the community and visitors to the town.’

FoBSP receives no regular public funding and therefore relies on the generosity of those who visit it, use it and support it, including many local businesses and individuals who form part of the incredible Bude community

Talan's Trust

We are a charity who raises funds for rhabdomyosarcoma a childhood cancer and are also committed to raise awareness of childhood cancer which sadly remains the biggest killer of children in the UK.

The 2 Minute Foundation

National charity founded in Bude with their blueprint delivery hub in Crooklets beach.

From a hashtag to a social media movement that transitioned into a charity in 2020, they give people the TOOLS and ENCOURAGEMENT they need to lead a planet positive lifestyle connecting communities and inspiring social action.

info@2minute.org

The Youth Fairy - Bude & Barnstaple (& Online)

I am Katie Rose Leitzell, children’s psychotherapist in Bude and Barnstaple.

- I offer Solution Focused Therapy for children, teens and young adults. My solution focused approach to therapy is modern, evidence based and encourages children to re-focus on the positive aspects of their lives, recognise strengths, improve quality of sleep, and engage more in positive activities and interactions with others.
- I offer a free 1-hour consultation to discuss your child’s situation and how we can begin to help them.
- I offer a school’s well-being programme as well to support small groups to improve their mental health.

07494 812 069
katierose@theyouthfairy.com