ABOUT US
ABOUT THE ROSELAND CENTRE
In the summer of 2022, The Roseland Centre Charity successfully raised funds to buy the former Cornwall Council Outdoor Activity and Education Centre in the village of St. Just-in-Roseland, Cornwall.
Located on Cornwall’s scenic Roseland Peninsula, in the village of St. Just-in-Roseland, Cornwall, this former Victorian Methodist School was for many years successfully run as Cornwall Outdoors ROEC, (Roseland Outdoor Education Centre) and was used by organisations such as the Royal Yachting Association, (RYA), British Canoeing, as well as local and out of County schools, groups and individuals from all backgrounds, abilities and needs.
It was well known as the place where primary school groups from around Cornwall and the wider areas, and even Continental Europe, came to engage in safe, enjoyable outdoor learning and activity such as learning to kayak, canoe, and sail, as well as being challenged by orienteering and cohesive experiences in the beautiful Cornish countryside.
VISION & OBJECTIVES
Against all odds, we have now created a community-led residential and day centre, enabling a range of Educational Partnership opportunities, through outdoor and cultural experiences.
This has entailed the commissioning and execution of extensive refurbishments to the building, ensuring it is fully accessible, renovating all the dormitories and the purchase of new bunkbeds and mattresses, and renewing the kitchen and all fire safety equipment.
The centre’s unique setting within the Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall National Landscapes provides an ideal field studies venue for school and university, with just a short walk to St Just Creek on the Fal estuary, whilst promoting health, well-being and sustainability for children and young people and a long-term community hub for all.
POLICIES
Please click the links below to find our current Policies and Procedures.
The Roseland Centre NOP v2 2025
ADOPTED SAFEGUARDING POLICY 2026
The Roseland Centre Policy Handbook v2 2025
Residential operating procedures (safeguarding) 2026
External provider safeguarding form 2026
Booking terms and conditions safeguarding section 2026
TRC Day Hire & Residential Risk Assessment 2025
TRC Power Cut Risk Assessment v1
Hirer’s safeguarding agreement 2026
The Roseland Centre Privacy Policy 2025
TRC Hire & Residential Welcome Pack v3 2025
The Roseland Centre Terms & Conditions Policy 2025
TRC Health Is Wealth Statement v1
OUR TRUSTEES
Chair – Keith Ives: Moved to Cornwall in 1986. Keith is a Savoy trained chef who has spent 40 years in the catering industry. He was the resident chef at the Centre, (previously Cornwall Outdoors Roseland Outdoor Education Centre), 2010 – 2016. He is a St Just-in-Roseland Parish Councillor and the original member of the TRC committee, formed to save the Centre; now the Charity Chair.
Treasurer – Gordon Humphreys: Went to Outward Bound Sea School, Aberdovey, for a month’s course at age 16, then left school and joined his first ship as a Deck Cadet in the Merchant Navy a couple of months later, aboard an oil tanker on a voyage from Milford Haven to the Persian Gulf. At 19 ½ he sat for his 2nd Mate Certificate, and at 25 for his 1st Mate Certificate, but after a couple more years at sea and many hours of looking at horizons worldwide, he came ashore to help control a fleet of oil tankers from a desk in London, looking after up to 40 tankers from the Persian Gulf to the US East Coast on a 24/7/365 basis. Having then moved on through various oil & commodity trading companies, he finally ended up as Vice President (Shipping Operations) of an American energy trading company before retiring at 69. Subsequently worked as a volunteer Treasurer for several local Charities including NCI before joining TRC.
Qualities – good with spreadsheets, and solving practical problems.
Tony Bowden: Tony is a long-standing member of the Roseland community in Cornwall sharing his time between Cornwall and West London. Tony was born in London, but has visited Cornwall every year of his life as did his father. Tony is an entrepreneur with many years of experience in the world of education and healthcare technologies. Tony co-founded Espresso Education with Lewis Bronze MBE and jointly sold the company to Discovery Education in the process visiting hundreds of primary and secondary schools. Tony places great importance on being a good collaborator and acting as a mentor. Outside of his work as a Trustee responsible for fund raising at The Roseland Centre, Tony is also a Trustee at The Hogarth Youth and Community Centre.
DSL Deborah Lambert: Deborah has been a teacher in Cornwall for over 35 years, with a wealth of experience as a class teacher of EYFS–KS2 in over 30 primary schools, Special Schools at KS1-4 and as a lecturer in Further Education and Higher Education. A network hub leader for North Cornwall as part of Plymouth University’s Natural Connections Demonstration project (one of the UK’s largest research project into outdoor learning) she also successfully led the Erasmus+ ‘Natural Schooling project, which concluded in 2023.
She is co-author of Bloomsbury’s award winning National Curriculum Outdoors – a complete scheme of work series of books, which show how to use the school grounds to deliver the current curriculum objectives – not as an extra subject but as an enriching approach to teaching and learning. She currently works with schools across Cornwall and Devon, delivering curriculum objectives outdoors adding depth and make learning real and memorable, as well as delivering country-wide training for schools as the benefits of this approach to learning gains growing recognition.
She has fond past memories of TRC residential visits, both with school groups and teacher CPD, including learning to sail, wild camp, cook on open fires and paddling open canoes and firmly believes these experiences shaped her future choices. She wants to make sure as many children as possible have the opportunity to make their own wonderful memories of being in the outdoors – who knows where this might lead?
Sheelah Goldsmith: A retired English and Drama teacher, her first 6 years teaching being in Camberley, Surrey, the next 6 at Camborne Comprehensive teaching 11-18 and the last 20 years at The Roseland School, now the Roseland Academy, also teaching media studies, history and PSHE. She retired from teaching in April 2011.
Like many, many teachers in Cornwall, Sheelagh stayed at TRC with 2 of her different Year 7 tutor groups when it was the Outdoor Education Centre run by Cornwall Council and so knows the great value of residential stays with pupils. “I am excited by the way TRC has been kept for the community and especially pleased that its refurbishment has made it very well insulated, with triple glazing too, and it has a great emphasis on sustainability, as I am a long term environmentalist. I have been a member of Friends of the Earth since the 1980s and a frontline member of Green Peace since 1983, so, I have kept myself abreast of many environmental issues for decades. I am also a founder member of the Roseland Environment Action Community Team, (REACT), which Professor Richard Cochrane started after a Climate Change Conference I initiated at Falmouth University in March 2019. I am especially excited by the emphasis TRC is going to be putting on running courses on sustainability and marine conservation. I am a Reiki master and reflexologist with a keen interest in holistic healing and well being.”
Graham Turpin: Graham has worked as a Clinical Psychologist within the NHS and also for the Universities of Plymouth and Sheffield. He coordinated the development of a new role within the NHS – Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to support the Improving Access to Psychological Therapy Programme, and was seconded for several years to the Department of Health as a National Advisor for Education and Training. He has held senior roles within the British Psychological Society, including being a trustee of the Charity. He has been granted Fellowships from the Royal Society of Medicine and the Academy of Social Sciences. Since retiring, he has moved to the Roseland where he has also been a trustee and Chair of the local Roseland Festival.
HISTORY
As an important part of St. Just-in-Roseland heritage, the building started life in 1893 and was the local Methodist school up until the late 1940’s. Some local residents still remember it fondly as the place where they sat at their desk in their first-ever classroom.
The site has seen extensive refurbishment since its purchase by The Roseland Centre Charity, who fundraised to achieve this and continued to raise donations throughout Phase 2. The refurbishment was very complex and time specific with local trades working hard to problem solve the various issues and curveballs that a Victorian build can give.
