Community groups benefit from Boardmasters

More than £100,000 donated last year

Around 40 local charities, beach clean groups, businesses, children’s hospices, schools, surfing and sporting organisations and community groups are to benefit from £105,000 raised by the Boardmasters music and surf festival last year.  

The festival's community arm, the  Boardmasters Foundation has helped the Schools Consent Project, Wave Women, Black Voices Cornwall, Cornwall Food Action, Newquay Train Station toilets, WGB Lifesaving Club, Newquay Boardriders, The Wave Project, Newquay Junior Academy and Watergate Bay Hotel.  

Other successful applicants are Newquay Scout Club, Children’s Hospice South West, Newquay Beer Festival, Newquay Tretherras Academy, Trenance Learning Academy and Concrete Waves.  Many more recipients will be announced in the coming weeks and months. 

CEO of Vision Nine, the organisation behind Boardmasters, Andrew Topham, said: “We’re really proud of the £105,000 we’ve been able to raised across 2022 and hugely grateful to everyone who has contributed to the Foundation as a supporter of Boardmasters itself.  

“Each year we review which projects and charities we will be supporting with one-off donations that year, whilst continuing to work with our long-term partners.  I’m really looking forward to meeting a number of our 2022 recipients in the next few weeks.”

Applications are reviewed against the Foundation’s key pillars of focus - Community, Force for Good and Culture. Applications for 2023 will open soon.