Four community projects in Cornwall, including the Looe Music Festival, have been awarded funding to run a range of Cornish language activities over the next year.

These will be aimed at a range of people, from those who are just interested in having a go at speaking or hearing the language, through to fluent speakers.

Festival organisers will be using the money to work with choirs and schools in South East Cornwall building up to a mass participation event.

Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek - the Cornish Language Fellowship – will be running a programme of activities throughout the year with other language and community groups.  

In recent years, the number of Yeth an Werin (pub or cafe evenings where Cornish is spoken) has grown and this project will start to coordinate events, provide support to volunteers and make links with other groups in the community.

Lowender Peran, the annual music festival in Newquay, will be using its funding to work with choirs, community groups and schools who are interested in singing in Cornish.

And Radyo an Gernewegva, an hour-long weekly radio programme which is made entirely in Cornish, has won backing.  

The Camborne-based social enterprise which makes the programme will use the funding to develop the range of Cornish language programming they produce and develop multi-media resources for Cornish speakers.