Category: Coming Up

Invitation to Creative Individuals

DESIGN A FESTIVE COVER FOR OUR CHRISTMAS EDITION

Each year, readers eagerly anticipate the Christmas edition of What’s On, known for its vibrant and festive cover design.

We are inviting creative individuals to design the front and back cover for this year’s edition, which will go to print on or around November 20th.

If you’re interested in contributing your artwork and would like more details, please get in touch with any member of the WO team or email wenvoe whatson@gmail.com.

We look forward to hearing from you.

What’s On Team.

 

Wenvoe Community Litter Pick

WENVOE COMMUNITY LITTER PICK

The next litter pick will be from Saturday 19th July. Filled bags will be collected, along with your black bags on the 25th July from your home or usual col-lection point.

You can litter pick at anytime and anywhere within the community within these dates I will again dis-tribute and collect pickers, gloves, bags, etc

If interested in participating, please either text/what’s app me as soon as possible on 07724827496 or email at info@russellgodfrey.co.uk.

Summer’s Here and It’s All Happening In The Vale

SUMMER’S HERE AND IT’S ALL HAPPENING IN THE VALE

The ongoing (until 3rd June) Vale Food Trail has recently brought us a mix of farm tours, cook-ery workshops, tasting events, special exhibitions, live demos and more. If you are disappointed that we are at the tail end of the food frenzy, fear not. This month, the Vale continues to provide events to suit all tastes.

Sunday1June:Welsh National Aquathlon Championships. Produced by All or Nothing Events, the two events planned are a 750m open water swim and a 5km run, across a hopefully sunny not too hot Barry Island. You can find more details on the AllorNothing Facebook page. If you wish to enter you can follow this link:https://www.allornothingevents.com/race-swyd-aquathlon-2025/

Sunday June 8:St Donat’s Castle Summer Fayre. The fayreis set across St Donat’s Castle, Arts Centre, striking outdoor gardens and sea front. The entertainment includes live music and a host of family activities and local traders providing over 60 stalls. There will be the opportunity to indulge in freshly prepared food with a variety of international tastes catered for as well as the less exotic but no less tasty range of British staples like brownies and preservatives. The craft stalls will include a variety of jewellery, wood, glass, ceramics and textiles. There is more. There will be a bouncy castle and family magician ‘Simon Sparkles’ will be putting on a magic show in Tythe Barn. You can also book the following additional activities:

  • 60-minute indoor and outdoor lido pool session (£5pp(– please note the indoor pool is heated but the outdoor pool is not.
  • Archery taster experience – 3arrows plus practice shot (£5pp, ages 6+)
  • Climbing taster experience – 2 climbs plus leap of faith (£5pp, ages 6+)

 

Tickets are £13 per car (for as many people who you can fit in) or £3pp on foot. Last entry is 3.30pm. Dogs are permitted onto the campus grounds, but must be on a lead at all times. You are also welcome to bring your own picnics.

Saturday 14th June: Barry Pride. The event returns to King’s Square and Central Park between midday and 7pm, with a variety of stalls, live entertainment, food and drinks.

Sunday 15th June: Barry Island 10K Race. Barry Island will provide the backdrop for a 10K race, plus a Family Fun Run, Toddler Dash, and competitive Future Challengers mile races. The popular race organised by Run 4 Wales, will take a scenic route with highlights including Whitmore Bay, Romilly Park, Watchtower Bay, Friars Point and the Knap. There will also be plenty of fun and games for spectators to enjoy in the event village on the promenade and gardens. This year’s new lead charity is Cancer Research Wales, and the event will form part of the Run 4 Wales 10K Series. Tickets are available at £32 or £30 for affiliated athletes. For more information or to enter the Barry Island 10k visit: barryisland10k.co.uk

Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July: GlastonBarry. Looking ahead to next month, GlastonBarry will return to Romilly Park with 22 tribute band providing live music for what is now a well-loved and established part of the calendar.

Wenvoe Repair Café

WENVOE FORUM

Considering Tomorrow Today

Breaking News! Wenvoe Repair Café

Ken and Martin have been busy!

Following the research we described last month, things have moved quickly. The Community Council gave their support to establish a repair café in Wenvoe and offered the use of the Community Centre. Ken and Martin visited the Repair Café in Barry, and signed up for support (guidance, training and insurance) from Repair Cafe Wales with plans to start with a low key debut. This “soft opening” on March 28th, had to be at the Church Hall because the Community Centre was already booked up. Ken and Martin have recruited and registered local volunteers and have benefited hugely from the experience and systems set up by those who already have active and successful schemes. Hopefully some readers will have been along to the Church Hall and met the local team as well as some enthusiastic volunteers from other repair cafés. At the time of writing one can only speculate what challenges would face the repairers on that first outing. However having experienced repairers on hand should have boosted confidence.

The Community Centre has been reserved for the Grand Opening of Wenvoe Repair Café by Councillor Williams, Chair of the Community Council, on April 26th. Support the development by taking along your items that need fixing.

We do hope you will start bringing items requiring a repair to the café to let the team of repairers and caterers demonstrate and exercise their skills. Three local resident repairers will be supported by three more from Barry and another from Llantwit Major so we anticipate having all the skills necessary for your electrical and non-electrical repairs. You can take along household electrics, small items of furniture, clothes, technology, wooden items, children’s toys, bikes etc. The team don’t promise to be able to fix everything, they know their limits, but if they can effect a repair quickly they will do so while you have a cuppa and wait. The repairs and the refreshments are provided free of charge but donations will be much appreciated; some income is needed to keep running. Overall, by repairing items rather than sending them to land fill we are working towa @ForumGwenfoe

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To join our Facebook group, please ‘friend up’ with the Gwen Fo account @ https://www.facebook.com/gwen.fo.1 and then jon the Wenvoe Forum @ https://www.facebook.com/ groups/635369267864402

Some further information and updates, blog site https:// wenvoeforum.wordpress.com/. Any Wenvoe community member is welcome to join the Forum meetings, via Zoom, which are normally held 19.00 on the second Thursday of each month. E-mail gwenfo.forum@gmail.com if you wish to join

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To join our Facebook group, please ‘friend up’ with the GwenFo account @ https://www.facebook.com/gwen.fo.1 and then jon the Wenvoe Forum @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/635369267864402

Some further information and updates, blog site https://wenvoeforum.wordpress.com/. Any Wenvoe community member is welcome to join the Forum meetings, via Zoom, which are normally held 19.00 on the second Thursday of each month. E-mail gwen-fo.forum@gmail.com if you wish to join

Tucker’s Plant Sale

On Saturday 10 May from 10.00am – 4.00pm the Tuckers VE80 Wartime Plant Sale will be taking place in and around the Church Hall. As the sale is taking place so close to the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe we thought we’d combine the two. There will be lots of plants for sale and Gareth will be running a preloved garden and sports equipment sale table. There will be wartime music inside the church hall along with the usual very popular raffle (if you would like to donate a prize we would be delighted). There will also be hot and cold drinks and wartime food made from recipes of the time which you can sample simply by buying some ration stamps. There will also be black market cakes and brownies available but that is a secret between you and I. You can have a go at ‘Pin the cigar on Churchill’ and ‘Pin the moustache on Hitler’ and see how close you can get it. Why not dress in clothes from the era? You certainly won’t be alone!

My good friend Gill Pinder, who has recently had a mural unveiled at Amelia Trust Farm, has donated one of her paintings of a Spitfire in flight. There will be a silent auction for this beautiful work of art on the day and, as with the raffle, wartime cakes, preloved table and plants, the proceeds from this auction will go to the Tucker charity of choice – Wenvoe Wildlife who do such fantastic work around the village.

Please be warned that there is a very shady character on the prowl at the moment and rumour has it that he may well be attending the sale with his suitcase, trying to sell black market items. If you see this man, please alert the authorities or the Home Guard.

There will be some wartime memorabilia to be perused, and I have transcribed the interviews I obtained from elderly Wenvoe residents in readiness for VE75 which was a non-event thanks to lockdown. If you have any family photos from WW2 which you would like to share, we can display them on the day.

Make a note of the date for this and come along and join in the fun! We’re looking forward to seeing you.

Tuckers Reindeer Sale

TUCKERS REINDEER SALE

Saturday 23rd November

Not long now until the 6th annual Tucker’s Christmas Reindeer sale and cafe on Saturday 23 November from 10am to 4pm at the Wenvoe Church Hall.

As well as the antlered stars of the show there will be some lovely things to buy and a festive atmosphere to get you in the Christmas mood. We will, of course, be joined by Trevor on the day with his lovely Christmas houses and decorations. There will be other local crafters joining us on the day. There will be beautiful turned wood items, some lovely textile gifts, painted wooden Christmas decorations as well as Laura’s ‘Flower Bunker Wenvoe’ with Christmas floral decorations and wreaths to order.

We will be holding the usual raffle with some excellent quality prizes including luxury food hampers, a home baked and decorated Christmas cake, some very interesting bottles and some items that would make ideal gifts for adults and children.

Once again, profits from this and from the sale of some crafts will be donated to our charity of choice, the Wenvoe Wildlife Group and members of the group will be manning a table with some very interesting items. There will be a visit from a man on a sleigh in a red and white suit which may offer an excellent, free photograph opportunity.

There will be tables inside the Church Hall for you to sit and enjoy a tea or coffee and maybe a homemade slice of Glen’s cakes or brownies while you catch up with old friends and meet some new ones. The reindeer and all craft tables will be under the cover of Christmas decorated gazebos and festive music will provide the backing track to the whole event. Why not join us and pick up a reindeer and some Christmas spirit! These have become collectors’ items so start making a list of people who deserve one as a gift. Bring a friend and have a festive catch up. We are so looking forward to seeing you there.

Tuckers Reindeer Sale

TUCKERS REINDEER SALE

Saturday 25th November

Not long now! Come along to the 5th annual Tucker’s Christmas Reindeer sale on Saturday 25 November from 10am at 29 Vennwood Close and outside the Church Hall. Apart from the stars of the show there will be some lovely things to buy and a festive atmosphere to get you in the Christmas mood. We are being joined by some local crafters on the day including Trevor and his lovely Christmas houses, Meinir and her printed sweatshirts and Heulwen will be raising money from her beautiful handmade cards for the Library. There will be Tucker family crafts and some really cosy crocheted blankets made and sold by Justine.

We will be holding the usual raffle with some excellent quality prizes including luxury food hampers, a home baked and decorated Christmas cake, some very interesting bottles and some items that would make ideal gifts for adults and children. Once again, profits from this and from the sale of some crafts will be donated to our charity of choice, the Wenvoe Wildlife Group. We are expecting a visit from a gent on a sleigh in a red and white suit which will offer an excellent photograph opportunity. There will, again, be home made cake sold by the slice and all craft tables will be under the cover of Christmas decorated gazebos with festive music providing the backing track to the whole event. Why not join us and pick up a reindeer and some Christmas spirit! These have become collectors items so start making a list of people who deserve one as a gift. Bring a friend and have a festive catch up. We are so looking forward to seeing you there.

 

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