Pants Cancer is a local charity supporting those living in Cornwall coping with the unspoken pants area cancers.

Founded by Jeannette Preston twelve years ago, a cancer survivor, the charity aims to raise funds for the Cancer Rehab Centre at Waterside House, Falmouth, where survivors of these cancers have free programs to enhance their recovery.

Pants currently have one charity shop on Webber Street, near the town centre, and one in Ponsharden opposite Sainsbury's.

Jeannette told Nub News how the charity got off to a flying start, she said: "I was really able because I modelled it around Tim Smit at The Eden Project and watched what he did. I got the news down, we had Spotlight in the shop and got into all the media, it was amazing the way people responded.

"I was inundated with stuff, and I realised we needed to expand so we set up The Hub by Sainsbury's and opened three hubs up there in 2010, 2011 and 2012. It was a great success, it was a good location for people to drop off and that worked really well."

The business was proving to be really successful. However, in 2016, while Jeannette was on holiday with her husband Pants was struck by a "serial con woman" who took all the money from the organisation.

Jeannette said: "We have struggled ever since then, I went to court separately just to clear my name, we have never been a rich charity and we have suddenly ended up really struggling.

"There were headlines saying there was planning permission applied for a pub and a hotel on Ponsharden so everybody thought we had closed. So, what with that and the town centre being dug up two years running affecting the other shop, it completely finished us off."

Now Jeannette's name is clear, Pants can start applying for grants again, but it is proving very difficult. Steve Winnan runs the Cancer Rehab Centre at Waterside House, and Jeannette wants to deliver the program to other regions.

She added: "It is just so hard for people like me to get money, and you just think why? Not only is what Steve (Winnan) doing here so important, we want to deliver it across the county, way down west and up in Bude, different places where people maybe struggle to access services and support.

"At the moment we cannot get funding for it, and we may well fold in-between that."

The café is right on the waterfront in Penryn, where fresh local food is prepared. The café offers authentic Arabian food each Friday evening, cooked by Zaher a local refugee working at the Waterside, and other light lunches during the week. There is live music with quiz nights and lots more, catering for parties and other gatherings.

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