Caring St Tudy

If you have had a good look around the village website you will have noticed that in the year 2000 we were a regional winner in the Village of the Year Competition sponsored by the Daily Telegraph and Calor Gas,  and in 1998, in the same competition, St Tudy won the Community Life Award.  This will give you some idea of what a superb community this is, but we do not only look after ourselves, we also think of others. 

In 1995 in the midst of the conflict in Bosnia, our soldiers were looking forward to a bleak Christmas so the concerned villagers, led by Vice Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly, decided to do something to help cheer them up.  Sir Louis put a  poster up in the village bus shelter, which doubles as the noticeboard, asking people to dontate books, games, jigsaws, magazines, tapes, crackers etc. Hundreds were readily given and the primary school children also sent cards and letters to the soldiers. In only a week the gifts were collected and boxed

 and thanks to the RAF were airlifted to Bosnia in time for Christmas.

On Christmas Day, Sir Louis received a telephone call from Sarajevo thanking him for organising the gifts and also later received a personal thankyou letter from General Sir John Wilsey.  The gifts were distributed to the soldiers at lunchtime on Christmas Day,

and as the personal letter to Sir Louis below shows, they were gratefully received.