Seeing Further Ahead Together
WENVOE FORUM
Considering Tomorrow Today
Seeing Further Ahead Together
The Wenvoe Future Forum was set up in the immediate post Covid period, when life was getting back to normal but there was a feeling that the world had changed and people were more aware of their own actions and their impact. We set out to capitalise on this environment and stimulate discussion and action that contributed to addressing climate change. We feel that we have had some success, generally through working to support other organisations in the village.
Members of the Forum care deeply about Wenvoe’s future — its environment, sustainability, and sense of community. Our aim is simple: to explore practical ways we can all make our village greener, cleaner and more resilient, now and for generations to come. Anyone who shares our aims is very welcome to join us.
In 2026 we are considering being more ambitious in looking to the future and thinking further ahead. We’ll be focusing on community connections – listening to residents’ ideas and gathering thoughts on what sustainability means for Wenvoe. We hope to widen the conversation and orchestrate a rigorous collection of ideas from residents with the aim of exploring whether these ideas large or small can be put into practice.
In the early days of the Forum someone said, “If the people of a community work together the only thing that limits what they can achieve is their imagination.”
If you’d like to get involved — even just to share an idea or a few hours of help — please email gwenfo.foum@gmail.com. If you’re passionate about recycling, gardening for wildlife, saving energy, or simply curious to learn more, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can make small changes that add up to a big difference.
Message to hop growers and potential hop growers
Thank you to everyone who donated hops this year. It seems to have been quite a good year for hops, certainly for some but for others their hop harvest was poor. If your plants didn’t deliver don’t give up hope as 2026 may be a better year for the hops.
We enjoyed beer and pizza last night at Pipes Brewery in Pontcanna. Simon, brewer of the community beer, Taff Temptress beer hopes it will last for sales up to Christmas and can be purchased in cans to take away. When you purchase mention the Wenvoe Hops group – at the moment still offering 20% off. Steve and I hope to purchase Hop plants and seeds in November as ours has died, so if you want some seeds from us, please let us know. We have one new member who joined this week. If you want to join our Wenvoe Hops group, please contact sianjo@btinternet.com
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