Category: Event Notices
Notices of upcoming events
An Hour of Storytelling
Wenvoe residents Eirwen Malin and Phil Thomas would like to invite you to their home in Old Port Road for an hour of storytelling from storyteller Carl Gough followed by drinks, some of Eirwen’s legendary homemade soup and a chance to meet some other fans of storytelling and, perhaps, others from the village you may not know.
There is no ticket price as such. We would ask for a donation to cover costs and the storyteller’s fee. Any surplus will be donated to Parkinson’s UK and The Beyond The Border International Storytelling Festival.
Places will be limited to 25 so please email philipthomas664@gmail.com or call 07870 212437 by Monday 2nd October to reserve a place and receive address details.
Please note – these are adult tales (some were considered “…oo vulgar for Victorian sensibilities…) So please be aware – not for children!
We hope to see you.
Eirwen and Phil
Wenvoe Christmas Craft Fair
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26th 2017 10 am – 4 pm
Wenvoe Community Centre
Put the date in your diary! Not long to go now until the second annual Wenvoe Christmas Craft Fair from Wenvoe Craft Workshop. All of the tables are booked and we have a lot of new and exciting crafts. This is the perfect opportunity to pick up unique, hand crafted gifts for those much-loved-but-awkward blighters amongst your family and friends. Why not buy a gift for yourself too? At least you’ll have one Christmas present you like! You can also find a lot of high quality, unusual stocking fillers that won't be stocked on the high street. When you have done your shopping you can relax and have a hot/cold drink and a slice of home made cake (the portion sizes are not for the faint hearted) and a chat. The raffle has some really lovely, good quality prizes so make sure you buy some tickets. Bring your friends, we’ll be really glad to see you.
If you are a Wenvoe Crafter who has not yet thought about having a table at one of our craft fairs why not have a go. You can contact us and we will try our best to accommodate you at the Spring Fair. For more information please contact the organisers, Glenys and Mike Tucker, on 07922109721 or at pukkatucker@gmail.com or take a look at out Facebook event page at Wenvoe Christmas Craft Fair.
Secondary Breast Cancer Strollers
Three glorious sunny Thursdays have seen a special band of walkers at Cosmeston in the past 3 months.
The Secondary Breast Cancer Strollers are a new group of walkers which form part of the walking programme offered by local charity, Valeways.
Lynne Frugtniet leads the group and invites cancer patients, their friends and families to come for a short stroll at Cosmeston, have a chat en route and finish with a coffee.
Walks are the first Thursday of every month at 10:30am. Walks start from reception at Cosmeston.
For any further information, email Lynne at lynnegrugtniet@btinternet.com
Christmas Craft Fair
Autumn Craft and Gift Fayre
Wenvoe Village Show
THIS IS OUR OWN LOCAL SHOW. A chance for some friendly local competition. You don’t need to be an expert. This is the last time the show will be organised by the Scout Group, the newly formed Allotment Group will hopefully run it in future. Lets all make an effort to enter at least one item in this year’s show.
The show is limited to entries from people who live in the Wenvoe Community (Wenvoe, Parc y Gwenfo, Twyn-y-Odyn, St Lythans, Dyffryn) and children who attend the village school. Anyone who has regular connections with a village organisation but resides outside the community boundary and would like to submit an entry should contact the organisers. Contact via wenvoescoutgroup@ googlemail.com or any of the section leaders.
Entries to be registered at the Community Centre between 9.00 and 11.30am. The hall will then be closed until 2.00pm for the judging to take place and reopened from 2.00 to 4.30pm for the public to view the exhibits. From 4.00pm there will be a chance to sample some of the winning culinary entries yourself. If you wish to reclaim your entries they should be collected between 4.30pm and 5.00pm. Tea, coffee and squash will be available throughout the afternoon. Children’s section entries can be registered on Friday evening between 7.30 and 8.30pm.
Entry Fee. – 50p per section or as many sections as you wish for £3. Children's entrance fee is 20p per category or £1 for as many sections as you wish. The children’s section is limited to persons under the age of 16 years but they can also enter items in any other category in the show as well. The maximum number of entries per person in any one category is two. Previously entered items are acceptable if they have failed to win a prize in the past.
Fruit & Vegetable – best examples of,
1. Apples – 3 cookers
2. Apples – 3 eaters,
3. Tomatoes (standard size)- 3 same type
4. Tomatoes (cherry) – 3 same type
5. Other fruit – minimum of 5
6. Beetroot – three
7. Carrots – three
8. Onions – three
9. Potatoes – three
10. Runner bean – three
11. Shallots – three
12. Chillies – three
13. Any other vegetable – One (unless smaller than a medium sized onion then 3 items should be submitted for judging)
Vegetables – whoppers
14. Runner bean – longest
15. Cucumber – longest
16. Marrow – biggest
17. Onion – largest
18 Potato – largest
19. Misshapen vegetable .
Fruit & Vegetable – best examples of,
1. Apples – 3 cookers
2. Apples – 3 eaters,
3. Tomatoes (standard size)- 3 same type
4. Tomatoes (cherry) – 3 same type
5. Other fruit – minimum of 5
6. Beetroot – three
7. Carrots – three
8. Onions – three
9. Potatoes – three
10. Runner bean – three
11. Shallots – three
12. Chillies – three
13. Any other vegetable – One (unless smaller than a medium sized onion then 3 items should be submitted for judging)
Vegetables – whoppers
14. Runner bean – longest
15. Cucumber – longest
16. Marrow – biggest
17. Onion – largest
18 Potato – largest
19. Misshapen vegetable .
Culinary
20. 6 cheese scones
21. 6 welsh cakes
22. 6 short bread fingers
23. Victoria jam sponge
24. 6 butterfly cakes
25. Lemon drizzle cake slices
26. Small fruit cake slices
27. Quiche Loraine
27. Bread (Handmade)
28. Bread (Machine made)
29. Men Only – 6 savoury curry biscuits
30. Fruit Jam – sweet
31. Fruit jam – bitter
32. Jelly Preserve
33. Marmalade
34. Chutney (any type)
35. Eggs (home produced) – 3 matched
36. Homemade drink. Soft or alcoholic
Craft
37. Tied bunch of flowers from your garden
38. Best house plant
39. Handwriting (adult) – 40. Needlepoint/cross-stitch etc
41. Knitted or cross stitch item
42. Painting/Drawing
43. A wooden craft item.
44 Any other craft item.
Photography – unmounted 7” x 5” or less
45. Small creature
46. Reflection
47. National Park landscape
48. Single person
49. Cardiff
50. Red
Children’s Section – all items MUST be produced by the child
51. Home baked – 4 chocolate chip cookies.
52. Home baked – 4 mini rock cakes.
53. Drawing or painting of a family member.
54. Handwriting – junior – ‘The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’ and seniors the same as juniors plus ‘Six javelins thrown by the quick savages whizzed forty paces beyond the mark.’
55. Craft – junk model.
56. Photograph – "My best picture taken in the last year".
57. Pre-school child – Piece of art or craft.
Limerick
58. The limerick – first line must be:- ‘In Wenvoe ……..
Fair Trade In Wenvoe
Regular stalls:
In St Mary’s Church hall following the All Age Service when coffee is served usually at 10 30am.
In the Chattery; every second Thursday of each month from 10 30 until midday.
Additional stalls
At the Scarecrow Festival on Saturday 23rd September from 2 till 5pm and Sunday from 10 30 – 11 am when the Christmas range will be launched.
A stall in the Church Hall following the Remembrance Service on November 12th
At Home with Jude and Nige; Friday 17th November – Open House at 5 Church Rise with refreshments and goods to sell or to order from 2 30 until 9pm.
For more information see the Traidcraft website on www.TraidcraftShop.co.uk/fairtrade or give me a call for information or a catalogue on 02920594708.
Jude Billingham
CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR
SECOND ANNUAL WENVOE CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR
Sunday 26 November 2017, 10am – 4pm
Wenvoe Community Centre
Wenvoe Craft Workshop proudly presents the Second Annual Wenvoe Christmas Craft Fair. This is the perfect opportunity to buy unique, handcrafted gifts and ornaments for Christmas and beyond. There will be a wide selection of crafts on offer which will include cards, wood, glass, slate, jewellery, scented candles, book folding, sewn and knitted items, confectionery, garden themed items and many more. There will be a charity raffle with superb prizes including a designer leather shoulder bag, a large Christmas Hamper basket full of deliciousness, a small Christmas hamper basket, a rich fruit Christmas cake (which will be hand baked and decorated in the village) and lots more. Once again the kitchen will be our refreshment area and will be well stocked with hot and cold drinks, cakes and biscuits which are home baked here in the village. This is very much a Wenvoe event run BY people from the village FOR people from the village and surrounding areas. One third of our 20+ tables are being stocked and run by people from Wenvoe and all profits from the raffle and from the refreshments sold will be donated to Wenvoe Good causes/charities. Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to meet up with friends old and new, put some ticks on your Christmas gift list and indulge yourself with a slice of cake and a chat.
If you would like further information please contact the organisers, Glenys and Mike Tucker, on 07922109721 or at pukkatucker@gmail.com or take a look at our Facebook event page at Wenvoe Christmas Craft Fair.
