The 2027 calendar helping keep Bude Sea Pool free

A tidal pool that fills and empties with the sea twice a day, and gets swum in through every month of the year, has been turned into twelve pages you can pin to the kitchen wall. Bude Sea Pool‘s 2027 Charity Calendar has landed, and every pound it raises goes straight back into keeping one of Cornwall’s best-loved swimming spots open, and free, for whoever wants to use it.

Twelve months of one Cornish landmark

The calendar is built entirely from photographs of the pool at Bude, taken across the seasons, from packed summer days with the sand around the pool full of swimmers to the quieter, colder months when the water belongs to the regulars. Here’s a look behind the cover.

Every penny goes back into the pool

100 per cent of the profits from calendar sales go towards maintaining Bude Sea Pool, according to the charity behind it, helping keep the free, open-to-everyone amenity running for another year. The pool receives no regular funding from central government, so sales like this one carry real weight. The calendar is on sale now through the Bude Sea Pool shop.

The photographers and printers behind it

Behind the calendar is a small group of local photographers who contributed their images: Phoenix Horncastle, Bex Davy, Andy Davies, Paul’s Photography and Drone Media Group, and Bude Sea Pool’s own Dean Oseman of Fat Beagle Photography. The calendar itself was printed by Redsmart Printing, based just up the road in Kilkhampton.

📷Credit: Bude Sea Pool