We began with a feasibility study and strategic brief, working with CAST's trustees to define what it needed to become. That strategy became the basis of a successful Arts Council England application. The key moves sit at ground floor. We refitted a 57m² café space and carved out a 12.5m² kitchen and accessible WC from underused space, and converted two windows into full-height doors onto a south-west terrace, giving the charity a public face and somewhere to sit in the afternoon sun. A new ramp to Penrose Road makes the building step-free for the first time.

Former classrooms became studios, CAST's offices and an artist's residency, and the old assembly hall became a dedicated screening room. Cornwall Council backed the external works, glad to see a locally listed building back in use, and construction was delivered with local conservation architect Alison Bunning. The vision we set out in 2015 still shapes CAST: new stairs to the town museum are under way, forming a small cultural quarter around Penrose Road.