Month: December 2020

Repair And Reuse Initiative For Wenvoe

REPAIR AND REUSE INITIATIVE FOR WENVOE

The Community Council has spent some time researching an inspirational project called Repair Café Wales.

We would like to share the philosophy of this project with you all and ask for your help in working towards something similar in Wenvoe

This is an extract from a document describing Repair Café Wales

“Repair cafes are events run by volunteers who fix peoples household items for free and teach the owner of the item how to repair their item as the fix is being undertaken. Over the last 30 months Repair Café Wales has

  • Helped open and support 30 repair cafes across Wales, several of which include other environmental sharing events. Since March we have had 21 requests for new repair cafes in communities across Wales
  • Welcomed 12,363 visitors to our repair cafes
  • Recruited 455 active volunteers across Wales
  • Saved local councils £50,904 in fixed items diverted from landfill over the last 18 months
  • Built a recognised digital presence with over 6,000 social media followers
  • Created a starter kit with 40+ documents to help a community start and successfully run a repair café

 

Over the last 18 months we have diverted approximately 16.5 tonnes of waste from landfill. Whilst we reduce waste, we also upskill people through repair to help build community resilience, we create a safe space to help people with loneliness, isolation and mental health issues and we help change people’s relationship with the items they own to better understand them, bring longevity to the item’s life and tackle our throw away society”

This is indeed a project for our current times.

To progress this we need a CHAMPION. An individual (or Individuals) who could set this on the road so that we can have such a facility in Wenvoe. We need someone with imagination, drive and initiative who could develop and lead a team of residents to support this initiative

WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP? Plenty of support will be available.

Please contact any of the editors if you are interested.

 

 

Wenvoe Advent Windows

WENVOE ADVENT WINDOWS

At the time of writing we are just over half way to lighting up all of the Wenvoe Advent Windows. There have been so many different subjects and ways of decorating windows that have all been a surprise to those of us viewing each lighting up. We have seen Santa Clauses, Snowmen, Kings, Nativities, Stars, Festive Fireplaces, Christmas Trees, Planets, Skating Penguins, a view of Wenvoe, tributes to a loved pet and even a visit from the Grinch, fortunately he didn’t steal our Christmas!

A huge Thank You to all the amazing efforts of those who used their time, imagination and skills to provide us with so much fun and a purpose to get out and have a walk whatever the weather.

We have had comments about what people want to do next year with further ideas and ways of improving what has already been achieved. While we have not made any plans for next year it would be good to have any comments from those who have decorated a window or those who have enjoyed viewing.

We now look forward to seeing the remaining windows unfold especially the last one the children from Wenvoe School are providing in the Church yard on Christmas Eve.

Jude Billingham

judebillingham@yahoo.co.uk – for your comments

 

 

Man Be Kind

Man Be Kind

 

Our beautiful world is crying, with man’s cruelty going on!

Slaughtering God’s creatures, Elephant and Rhinos soon be gone,

Many wildlife creatures here from the start,

Who walked the lands, who swam the seas, soon many to depart!

Ships that sail the Oceans, dumping rubbish in the sea,

Plastic bags choking sea creatures,

Whose habitat once was free!

Our magnificent flying creatures whose songs we heard a lot,

So colourful and mesmerising, doing things that man could not,

They spared their wings and then take flight high above the earth,

Their nests in Rainforests now destroyed that once held generation’s birds!

Pollution heating up the earth, ozone layer breaking down,

Wildfires taking over, burning all down to the ground!

Nature’s country habitats all taken, dear creatures needing help,

As they flee to survive their fear so strongly felt!

The Earth and nature’s had enough and now is fighting back,

World leaders must be carers, to get all back on track,

The Universe is powerful, many planets to explore,

But mankind MUST be kinder, as they too could go before.

 

Maureen Richards 2020

 

 

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