I am reaching out to share an exciting opportunity for local mums and their children to engage in a healthy, outdoor activity that promotes both physical fitness and social connections.
Realising that the local community lacked a group that would encourage mothers and their little ones to meet up and exercise in nature, I set up such a group 6 months ago and to my astonishment it grew rapidly and now has over 1,500 members! In this short time we have organised group hikes, walks, buggy runs, sunrise swims, mama-only socials, camping trips and more outdoor activities. Our aim is to encourage mums from all walks of life and of all fitness levels to explore the beautiful local trails while enjoying the benefits of fresh air, exercise and being part of a community.
Details of the Hiking Group:
Hiking Mums Wales (Facebook and Instagram)
Frequency: bi-weekly hikes or walks and other activities throughout the month
Location: Newport based but hikes and activities across South Wales
Age Range: hikes, walks and activities suitable for children of all ages
How to join: join our Facebook group for full details on how to join our walks and events.
Thank you
Lucianna and Leanne
Please be advised of the following scam raised with, and confirmed by, DWP Security and Data Protection Team.
DWP Cyber Resilience Team are aware of this scam and have taken action on it, as well as referring it to the Security Incident Reporting Team for their records. Security Teams do not distribute scam (potential or otherwise) alerts to colleagues so always worth highlighting what we can to protect customers and communities across Wales and wider.
Please encourage any partners organisations that become aware that any of our customers are receiving these or similar texts to report them via Action Fraud.
CHRISTMAS FAYRE
Come and buy your Christmas presents!
Craft Stalls:jewellery, quilts, woodwork, knitting, cards,Christmas decorations etc
also home-made cakes, jams and chutneys,plants plus lots more.....
at Old St Mellons Village Hall, Newport Road on Saturday, November 16th 2024
Dementia Friendly Cardiff, is made up of Cardiff Council, Alzheimer’s Society and Cardiff & Vale University Health Board.
We are working to make Cardiff and The Vale of Glamorgan Dementia Friendly.
Please follow this link to the volunteer opportunity:
Become a Dementia Friendly Ambassador Volunteer - Dementia Friendly Cardiff
Please find below information relating to the Police & Crime Commissioner’s community survey and small grants scheme.
Why is the Commissioner launching a survey and small grants scheme?
One of the first responsibilities as Police and Crime Commissioner is to issue a comprehensive Police and Crime Plan which reflects local priorities. To ensure the priorities within the Commissioner’s Police & Crime Plan reflect the needs and views of local people, victims, and communities in South Wales, she is actively seeking wider feedback to test her priorities as part of developing the Plan. We are keen to hear from you in terms of your insights and expertise, as well as seek your support in helping us to extend the reach of our survey and community grant via your community networks.
How can you help?
The Commissioner is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equity across policing and criminal justice, and understanding and addressing the needs of all communities. To achieve this, we want to ensure participation is as diverse as possible and that we hear from those who are often marginalised.
We would be grateful for your support in promoting and participating in the consultation activity outlined below and sharing widely through your networks, as well as communication channels such as newsletters, citizen panels and websites. I’ve also enclosed posters which we would be grateful if you could display within your organisation and locally.
How can people take part?
SURVEY
People can share their feedback with us via our community survey. The survey closes on Friday 4th October 2024.
English survey: https://lynngroup.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a3PHm5Sir8r6r78
Welsh survey: https://lynngroup.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bKG0t9dhk1inBJA
Paper copies, easy read and large print versions of the survey are available on request.
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone: 01656 869366
TELL EMMA – COMMUNITY GRANT
We are offering funding of up to £500 for consultation activities to be led by grass roots and community organisations, including those supporting diverse and marginalised communities
Find out more - 'Tell Emma' Community Grant Scheme Launched - South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner (southwalescommissioner.org.uk)
- SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media posts are scheduled weekly on our social media channels (hyperlinked below). If you are willing, please share these posts across your channels.
The annual Boule Competition is taking place at Ty'r Winch Playing Field on Saturday 15th June 4pm. £2pp for competition entry + bring your own picnic.
Urdd's Fund for All, which this year will offer 300 free places at the Urdd's summer camps for children and young people in Wales. Specific places have been set aside funded by certain communities, but there are places left for any child or young person who is eligible. We would be grateful if you could share the attached leaflet within your communities so that this amazing opportunity reaches as many people as possible. Applications can be made on our website: https://www.urdd.cymru/en/support-us/cronfa-cyfle-i-bawb/gwneud-cais-ir-gronfa/
OLD ST. MELLONS COMMUNITY COUNCIL
PUBLIC MEETING
ALL RESIDENTS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND OUR VILLAGE HALL
TO HAVE A SAY ON THE
VILLAGE PLAN
TO BE HELD ON
MONDAY 11th MARCH 2024
at 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Please come along and have a say
on what you would like in your Community,
all ideas are welcome
Cardiff Council’s budget consultation is now live, closing on Sunday 4th February.
The following links will take you to the Council Budget page on Cardiff Councils website. There you will find information on the 2024/25 budget and the survey links.
Thank you.
Cardiff Hubs and Libraries runs a home delivery service that brings the library to the doorstep for residents who are incapacitated and can no longer travel to their local library independently, or carry books home.
This service is available to anyone with the following conditions:
- illness,
- infirmity,
- disability,
- post-operative recovery, or
- long-term isolation.
Home visits are scheduled on a 3 week basis to deliver and collect ordinary or large print books, and audiobooks. Residents are initially contacted to discuss their needs and reading tastes and after that they either give the driver a preferred list of books, or the books are chosen by experienced and knowledgeable library staff.
Books can also be reserved online for delivery as soon as they become available.
This service is entirely free, covers the whole of Cardiff and contributes towards the Council’s Plan for wellbeing with the particular aim of supporting older people/carers and preventing loneliness.
Please are you able to raise the awareness of this service within your Communities by distributing the attached Welsh and English posters in buildings managed by the Community Council and/or including the information in any appropriate communications issued to residents through social media, webpages, newsletters etc?
Any actions/activities that you can undertake to promote this service within your remit of a Community Council would be very much appreciated and will hopefully bring benefit to the residents you represent.
If you require further information regarding this service, please contact our home delivery service on 029 2087 1333 or by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
OLD ST MELLONS VILLAGE ASSOCIATION
“Promoting Sporting & Social Activities and Community Amenities”
(A non-profit distributing organisation)
Hello to all our supporters – young, not so young, present and future!
Events held at the Village Hall this year included the Spring Quiz in March, Race Night in April, Music & Dance Night in May, Autumn Quiz in September and soon Halloween Disco Night on 28th October. Also, the Annual Boule competition took place at the Ty'r Winch Road Playing Field in June.
Our events at the Village Hall include a bar (club prices) and, included in the price of a ticket, a supper organised by our Members. Our future events are posted on the Old St Mellons Community Council’s website and also on the noticeboards located around the village.
We are always on the look out for new Members so please make contact, details below. Membership of the Village Association is open to all who are interested in helping to provide both sporting and social activities and community amenities for Old St Mellons. It is non-profit-making and all members join in a voluntary capacity. It returns funds raised in the community to the community and has been doing so since 1974. Recently, funding for two table tennis tables was awarded to the Table Tennis Club.
OLD ST MELLONS VILLAGE ASSOCIATION
59 HASTINGS CRESCENT, OLD ST MELLONS, CF3 5DF
TEL: 07855114619
EMAIL: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
How much would you pay for policing?
Precept survey launched giving residents the chance to ‘have their say’.
Did you know the Police & Crime Commissioner is responsible for setting the South Wales Police budget and deciding what further funds need to be raised from the additional charge on council tax?
This is called the police ‘precept’ and accounts for nearly one half of South Wales Police’s funding, with the rest coming from the Government. In setting the precept, the Commissioner consults with the local electorate through the ‘Our Police, Community’ survey which was launched earlier this month.
Responses to the survey will help the Commissioner decide what the public will pay for policing through their council tax in 2024/25.
Residents living in a Band D Property in South Wales currently pay £27.04 per month for policing, but over sixty per cent of residents in South Wales are below Band D and pay less and may also receive council tax discounts or benefits. Residents in South Wales currently pay the Welsh average for policing, which is significantly less than the cost of policing in North Wales.
If you would like to request a paper copy, you can contact us either by email, phone or post.
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Phone: 01656 869 366 | Post: South Wales Police & Crime Commissioner, Police Headquarters, Cowbridge Road, Bridgend, CF31 3SU.
Faint fyddech chi'n ei dalu am blismona?
Lansiwyd arolwg praesept sy'n rhoi cyfle i drigolion 'ddweud eu dweud'
Oeddech chi'n gwybod mai'r Comisiynydd sy'n gyfrifol am bennu cyllideb Heddlu De Cymru a phenderfynu pa arian ychwanegol sydd angen ei godi o'r tâl ychwanegol ar y dreth gyngor?
Gelwir hyn yn 'praesept' yr heddlu ac mae'n cyfrif am bron i hanner cyllid Heddlu De Cymru, gyda'r gweddill yn dod o'r Llywodraeth. Wrth osod y praesept, mae'r Comisiynydd yn ymgynghori â'r etholwyr lleol drwy'r arolwg 'Ein Heddlu, y Gymuned' a lansiwyd yn gynharach y mis hwn.
Bydd ymatebion i'r arolwg yn helpu'r Comisiynydd i benderfynu beth fydd y cyhoedd yn ei dalu am blismona drwy eu treth gyngor yn 2024/25.
Mae preswylwyr sy'n byw mewn Eiddo Band D yn Ne Cymru yn talu £27.04 y mis am wasanaethau plismona ar hyn o bryd, ond mae mwy na 60% o breswylwyr De Cymru yn byw mewn band eiddo sy'n is na Band D ac yn talu llai, ac mae'n bosibl eu bod yn cael disgowntiau neu fudd-daliadau treth gyngor hefyd. Yn Ne Cymru, mae preswylwyr yn talu'r gyfradd gyfartalog yng Nghymru am wasanaethau plismona ar hyn o bryd, sy'n is o lawer na chost plismona yng Ngogledd Cymru.
Cliciwch yma i ddweud eich dweud
Os hoffech ofyn am gopi papur, gallwch gysylltu â ni naill ai drwy e-bost, ffôn neu drwy'r post.
E-bost: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Ffon: 01656 869 366 | Post: Heddlu a Throseddu De Cymru, Pencadlys Heddlu, Pen-y-bont, CF31 3SU.
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