A CAMPAIGNER against the UK's binge-drink culture, Baroness Newlove, has visited Camborne to see how funding to help tackle alcohol related antisocial behaviour has been spent.
Mrs Newlove is a Warrington based community reform campaigner who was appointed as the victims' commissioner by the government last year.
She came to prominence after her husband Garry was murdered by three drunken youths in 2007 who were vandalising her car.
Yesterday she took the opportunity to visit the Drop In and Share Centre (DISC) in Camborne to see for herself how £90,000 of funding secured in 2012 as part of the Government's Alcohol Fund Prospectus is being used.
The Safer Towns initiative in Cornwall which covers eight priority towns was successful in securing the cash over two years from the one million pound fund set up by Baroness Newlove to help tackle anti social behaviour linked to alcohol.
Revd Mike Firbank said she was very impressed with all that she saw at Disc. He said: "She said that this is where localism really works with local people are making the difference.
"She met ex-offenders who had turned their lives around through Disc and were on training courses and giving back to the community through volunteering."
DISC is aimed at vulnerable adults and has around 400 visits a month from people who come to the centre for a hot meal and to access individual help and support.
Baroness Newlove also visited Falmouth's Cop Car project and met some of the 16 young people who, with the help of suitable mentors, are building 'Greenpower' cars to race as a team.
