Recently, the Community Alive Falmouth network has had a resurgence of energy after a few dormant years.

Started in 2010 by community members across Falmouth-Penryn to support many of the community groups in Falmouth, Community Alive Falmouth also hosted their first networking event on Falmouth Moor that year, launching this website along with it.

Now, the network is focused on building social and ecological resilience across Falmouth, following a facilitated assembly and networking event in July 2025 which brought together environmental, social, climate, activist, and other community groups across the Falmouth-Penryn area.

During this event, the network discussed a variety of topics pertaining to the area of Falmouth-Penryn in general, as well as the issues their groups are specifically addressing. These discussions concluded in some suggestions, including:

What isn’t currently working in the Falmouth-Penryn community:

• General culture is against sustainability (i.e shared ownership, shared transport, cycling)
• Public transport is too expensive locally
• There is not enough youth engagement
• There is not enough funding for projects to scale up (and funding is being cut off)
• National organisations aren’t well connected at the local level
• Groups are too siloed and disconnected from each other and don’t often share resources and knowledge
• People are sometimes reinventing the wheel with new initiatives rather than putting effort into existing ones
• Mutual aid is breaking down, leading to professionalisation of core services that would have been provided by communities
• Community solidarity is tied to politics, rather than material conditions, such as class
• There is a lack of diversity within groups
• There is a serious divide between the housed and unhoused

The collective wants/needs of groups within the network:

• Networking and building resilience
• More volunteers
• Skilled volunteers that stay committed to the projects being undertaken
• Additional funding
• Creating more links between people, and more collaborations between organisations
• Exchanging info/theories of change
• Increasing public awareness
• Accessible spaces and more physical spaces for storage, admin and meetings
• Expanding reach outside of Falmouth and Penryn

After the event, the network supported the creation of a Falmouth-Penryn Resilience Web – a diagram/map of the many of the groups’ initiatives to show the ecological and social resilience being built throughout the Falmouth-Penryn area. This can be found here. Groups are also listed on this website.

Finally, many of the groups have also joined a collective email messaging service, called Groups.io.

If you are interesting in joining the Community Alive Falmouth network – and being added to this website, the Falmouth-Penryn Resilience Web, and/or the email network, please contact us.

If you are an individual who wants to get involved with the amazing work happening around Falmouth-Penryn, please do have a look at the list of groups either on this website or the Resilience Web and contact the one/s you would like to be involved with directly!

We are hoping to host another event soon.