Month: May 2017

ELECTION RESULTS 4th MAY 2017

 

 

ELECTION RESULTS 4th MAY 2017

Number of votes cast for each candidate

[E] elected

Vale of Glamorgan Council

Wenvoe Ward

Bird Jonathan 753 [E] Brooks Sian 195, Godfrey Russell 165, Perry Ian 190.

Wenvoe Community Council

Wenvoe Ward

Case Trevor 351 [E], Davies Brenig 275, Harvey Michael 326 [E], Jervis Eira 416 [E], Jervis Viv 366 [E], Miller Ann 270, Moody Ian 441 [E], Oliver Dickon 284 [E], Owen Lew 214, Tanner Riannon 313 [E], Thomas Colin 385 [E], Tucker Mike 503 [E]

St Lythans Ward – no contest

Bird Jonathan [E], Sexton Rhian [E]

Fiery Rooster Challenge

 

If you are at a loose end during May and fancy some outdoors activity why not try the Fiery Rooster challenge? It is the Chinese Year of the Rooster and at each of the following five sites you will see a poster on the noticeboard with a question. To get the answer go to the next site. The five locations are The Upper Orchid Field, The Community Orchard, The Elizabethan Orchard, the watercress beds at Goldsland Farm and the Wild Orchard. You can start at any point but then need to follow them in order. First correct answer wins £20 of Garden Vouchers; second gets £10. Check Facebook to see if the prizes have been won. Take pencil and paper or some other means of recording the answers.

On Thursday 25th May we shall be leading an orchard walk as part of the Vale of Glamorgan Walking Festival. We start at 11am outside the church and the walk of around 5 miles will take in the Community Orchard, Elizabethan Orchard, Wild Orchard and Upper Orchid Field. No booking necessary but bring lunch and wear stout footwear. If you know your way around the area and 5 miles seems too much you can join us for a while and then make your own way home.

Pupils from Wenvoe Primary School helped us again this year to spread wildflower seed on the bed in Grange Park. They were impeccably behaved and found out, amongst other things, how bees are saving wild elephants in Africa. Elephants have an aversion to bees so by placing hives around the perimeter of the village the elephants are deterred from muscling in and consuming the crops, hence reducing conflict and the prospects of villagers taking retaliatory action.

This month the group has arranged for the erection of another noticeboard and bee hotel, this time at Goldsland Farm (featured on Radio 4's Farming Today). We have put up four new raised beds, 2 insect homes, 3 butterfly boxes, 3 nestboxes, 4 hedgehog homes and planted 3 Rowan, 3 Wild Cherry and 3 Crabapple along with the native Yellow Water Lily, Flag Iris, Flowering Rush and Purple Loosestrife.

As always there is masses to do around the sites so if you fancy doing a bit of conservation work, do get in touch.

About the Village Hall

 

The hall will be holding its AGM on Tuesday 20th June at 7pm in the Village Hall

Our treasurer is stepping down this AGM so we are currently looking to appoint a new treasurer. We would like to thank Colin Thomas for all his hard work in keeping the accounts so neat and tidy and up-to-date. Thank you. If you feel you can spare some voluntary time to the Village Hall then please write to Mrs Gail Adams (Secretary), 5 Whitehall Close, Wenvoe, CF5 6DB to show interest.

Alternatively why not come along to the AGM on 20th June? All residents are welcome to attend.

A little history on the Wenvoe Village Hall – The Village Hall sits on land owned by ‘The Estate of Wenvoe’. It was offered to the village to use for a peppercorn rent pre-war times. The hall as it is seen today, was rebuilt in 1974. Some say before that it was a tin shack. However, I have fond memories of the old building as a child, attending many a function there and can only remember the tin doors. It was used for many events from talent competitions, dancing, weddings, Judo and for the community to come together to celebrate community life (No different to the hall today). Many groups meet here including; dancing for all ages, badminton classes, martial arts and is the home of the community run playgroup.

The hall is our local charity and belongs to us as a community. It is not funded by the Vale of Glamorgan and relies on a committee of residents to collect rents, apply for grants and general fundraising for its up-keep. At this point I would like to thank Rachel Marshall who supported the Committee with applying for a grant for our new kitchen. Thank you Rachel your support was very much appreciated.

Without a Committee at the Village Hall, the hall and its land will be passed back to the land owners. The lease states that we must have a number of residents on the committee to support the hall. This is where you can help your community. If you don’t want to lose your hall, playgroup, classes of recreation then please come to the AGM on 20th June or contact us at wenvoevillagehall @yahoo.co.uk

We don’t want to see a block of flats or more housing on this valuable piece of land, so we really do need you to contact us and show your support.

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