Category Archives: Whats On in and around Cowbridge.

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Alun Cairns hosts the Google Juice Bar in the Vale – Fri 25th May

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Google Juice Bar comes to the Vale

On Friday 25th May 2012 at Barry YMCA, Alun Cairns MP in partnership with Google, is hosting the Google Juice Bar. A part of the Getting Welsh Business Online campaign it aims to help small to medium sized businesses overcome the most common challenges associated with getting online and growing online – advice that’s completely free of charge.

The Google Juice Bar is an opportunity to have a FREE one-to-one session with a Google advisor about your business. Sessions last 40 minutes and are an active, informal and friendly way to ask as many questions as you like about getting or growing your business online. You can chat with an adviser about any aspect of being successful online which could include:

• Getting a free website for your business and learning how to update it yourself
• Getting advice on how to improve your current website
• Reaching local customers by registering with Google Places
• Using Google Analytics to learn about your customers
• Learning how to advertise online
• Or learning how to use any other Google products you’re interested in

To find out more about the Google Juice Bar and to register for an appointment visit http://uk.bookingbug.com/client/juice.htm or call Alun Cairns’ office on 01446 403814 for further information. Early booking is advised to avoid disappointment.

Google Juice Bar
9.00am – 4.00pm
Friday 25thth May
The Hub, Barry YMCA, Barry

www.aluncairns.co.uk

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Forest Gardening Weekend – Coed Hills 19th-20th May

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Hello all!

We’re holding another forest gardening weekend at Coed Hills on this weekend coming, the 19th – 20th May, and are looking for volunteers to come and help us creating the garden whilst learning about the techniques and plants that we are using.

 

 

Our hopes for this weekend are to :

  • Weed, improve edges and plant and seed the central garden spaces
  • Progagate more plants from seeds and cuttings
  • Dig and lay edges for an improved path network
  • Plant up all of the module spaces with plants raised this year
  • Inoculate logs and woodchip beds with various fungi species

Camping spaces are available for those who would like to stay for the Friday and Saturday night, and anyone from the local area is welcome to join us for any of the days.

Hot meals will be available for lunch and dinner at £4 per meal for food from our gardens and a selection of seasonal wild extras. Please feel free to bring packed lunches. Camping spaces will be provided for free on the Friday and Saturday nights. The work days will run from 10am – 5pm each day, with plenty of breaks.

The usual things apply; bring work boots and warm clothes that you don’t mind getting muddy. We’ll keep you filled up with tea, and there’ll be the opportunity to learn about the way the garden works and to find out more about the plants were growing and their uses.

These work days always attract a brilliant mix of interesting people from many places and backgrounds, and we hope there will be pleasant social time in the evenings (please feel free to bring an instrument for fire side sessions).

If you are interested in attending this or any other aspects of the forest garden please email us at coedforestgarden@gmail.com. There will be more forest gardening weekends planned throughout the coming months.

Rich Wright – 07790 723835
Jess Clynewood – 07725182894

 

You can find directions here Coed Forest Garden Project

 

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Friendly and effective. 4N Business Networking in Cowbridge. Bar 44 alternate Thursdays.

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The Cowbridge 4Networking group meets every other Thursday 8am at Bar 44 over breakfast, and its informal, friendly environment means that attendees from every industry can have fun and banter, and gain motivation, as well as doing deals. As well as open networking and a 40 second round, where guests have the opportunity to tell everyone about themselves and their businesses, each attendee has three, ten-minute, one-to-one appointments with other networkers at each meeting.

Meeting Thurs 17th May. 4 Sight from Steve Thornbury – practical networking tips.

Meeting Thurs 3rd May – 4sight from David Popley of DP Associates – upbeat and proactive accountants based in South Wales.“I *never* seem to have enough time!”…and what to do about it”

Meeting Thurs 22nd March – Intriguing 4Sight from Peter Hughes  “From tulips to otter poo – A recovering journalist tells tales!!”

Meeting Thurs 8th March – 4Sight from Kim De Vall - Find out what Kim’s fascinating hobby is, audience participation encouraged!

4Networking has almost 300 groups and over 42,000 members all over theUK. Unlike many networking organisations, 4Networking members are allowed to attend any of its groups and can go to up to four events each week, if desired. Give it go for just £10 – you can come along to 3 meetings before joining.

Contact 4N Cowbridge

4N_Smile

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Cowbridge will be in the Pink for Breast Cancer Care – Sat 23rd June

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Saturday June 23rd will see the first Strawberry Street in Cowbridge. Organised by Breast Cancer Care Cymru and a team of volunteers from Cowbridge, the team will host an old fashion Strawberry Tea with games and stalls at Cowbridge’s Old Hall Gardens.

To support the event Cowbridge High Street will be turning pink from Saturday June 9th. For two weeks, local businesses will be dressing their windows with Breast Cancer Care balloons and banners and fundraising in store.

Previous Strawberry Street Shop Front Ideas

Sally Harrop, 49, from Cowbridge, volunteered to help organise Strawberry Street after Breast Cancer Care Cymru supported her through her breast cancer diagnosis.

“I have used a number of Breast Cancer Care services, so being able to help them raise money to ensure they can continue to support other people going through what I went through is very important to me.Please come along and support the first Strawberry Street in Cowbridge! And more importantly support Breast Cancer Care Cymru and people living across Wales with Breast Cancer.”

Across the UK, someone will be diagnosed with breast cancer every 10 minutes. Breast Cancer Care want to be there to support everyone of them. With your help we can. If you would like to help turn Cowbridge pink and support this event please contact the Wales office on 02920 234070.


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The Book of You – Day Course in Journal Writing and Book Binding – Sat 23rd June Cowbridge

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THE BOOK OF YOU – Day Course in journal writing and bookbinding 

Saturday 23rd June 10am- 3pm. The course is to be held upstairs in the Little Shop of Calm in Cowbridge. It involves an introduction to journal writing with Dahlian Kirby and a hands-on session of traditional bookbinding/making with the Bristol based artist Jan Martin.

It should be creative, thoughtful and fun!

The cost is £35 per person and advanced booking is essential. Please e-mail

info@dahliankirby.com or ring me on 07905738298

http://www.dahliankirby.com/wordpress/writing-courses/

http://www.janmartin.co.uk/

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Evan Walters – Hidden secret of Welsh art. Cowbridge Book Festival Mon 14th May 8pm

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“Evan Walters (1893-1951) is perhaps the great hidden secret of Welsh painting in the twentieth century, an outstanding artist who awaits discovery beyond Wales. This book presents, for the first time, a generous selection of colour reproductions of his paintings – portraits, landscapes, still lives – with a biographical essay on the artist.”

Barry Plummer the author and editor of the book is an independent researcher of Welsh art. He will be in conversation with Dr. Kim Howells, a former Minister for Culture. Kim has spent most of his life in politics but since retiring he has returned to his love of art. He recently interviewed Barry in his successful four-part program “Framing Wales” on BBC2.

Duke of Wellington, Cowbridge, 8pm £5

Ticket and more information on the Cowbridge Book Festival website

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Maes Gwrydd – The Green Field at the Eisteddfod. Book your tradestand by 1st June!

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Maes Gwyrdd is to be a 3 acre field within the main “Maes” of the National Eisteddfod, which attracts up to 160,000 visitors from all over Wales. We plan to offer a variety of events including interactive demonstrations of sustainable living, renewable energy and innovative eco-technologies as well as activities including music, storytelling and kids’ workshops.

We will be hosting a “conference in a field” with a dedicated talks and discussions marquee, the “e-Coleg” (from the Welsh word for ecology) where PowerPoint presentations will take their place alongside workshops and debates about a sustainable future for Wales. There will be opportunities for the companies that are involved with Maes Gwyrdd to host presentations and discussions. We are also offering advertising space in our events programme, which will potentially be seen by thousands of people, or the opportunity to sponsor the Maes Gwyrdd project or an area within it – please get in touch for further details of these options.

For stallholders, types of stands available are within a branded marquee, or you may wish to bring your own gazebo/marquee or exhibition trailer; further information about stands is on the website.

Having a tradestand in the Maes Gwyrdd  is a great opportunity for new and interesting “green” ideas to reach a large audience during the course of an 8 day festival (4th -11th August). To encourage small companies we are offering a minimum two day attendance, rather than the full 8 days usually expected by the Eisteddfod, and also the option of sharing a 6m x 3m stall in the marquee, both of which reduce the cost of attending.

We can also offer free camping in a newly created area especially for the tradestand exhibitors who are in the Maes Gwyrdd area. Closing date for applications:  1st June

You can pay the full amount with your application or wait for an invoice which will be sent out as soon as an application is received. The stands will be allocated by June 30th 2012 but only after full payment has been received. The relevant tickets will be sent to you in July. It is important that you read the guidelines, rules and regulations which can be found on the Maes Gwyrdd website.

If you require any further information, please contact us.

Thirza Morton-Parker  Maes Gwrydd tradestand manager                                                                 Maes Gwrydd  

07762891998 or thirza@maesg.org.uk

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Jubilee Tea Dance at The Gathering Place – St Athan Sat 9th June 2-4.30pm

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Jubilee Tea Dance at The Gathering Place, St Athan on Saturday June 9th 2.00-4.30. With demonstration and tuition from dance teacher Alan Taylor and his students. Dancing not compulsory, just come along, watch and have afternoon tea. Booking advisable because of limited spaces. Ring 01446-750700 or e-mail thegatheringplacestathan@gmail.com or pop in.

 

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Welsh Summer Country Fair and Food Festival Fonmon Castle Sat 30th June-Sun 1st July

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Great Food Great Shopping Garden Walks Cream Teas Champagne Marquee  Real Ale  Live Music

All in the beautiful surroundings of Fonmon Castle….

Celebrate summer in style at the Welsh Summer Country Fair and Food Festival, to be held in the glorious and exclusive surroundings of Fonmon Castle, near Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan on Saturday June 30th and Sunday July 1st.

Fonmon Castle is the perfect setting to taste the very best in fantastic award winning food and drink – carefully sourced from producers who are really passionate about what they do.

 

 

 

 

Avoid the humdrum of the high street and enjoy treating yourself from our beautiful selection of hand crafted unique jewellery and fashion provided by talented artists and designers.  Discover all things quirky, unusual and vintage to add inspirational style to your home. Enjoy cream tea in the elegant castle rooms or have a leisurely stroll around the castle gardens. With food talks and demonstrations, our champagne marquee and live music, you can truly relax and leave feeling that you have truly celebrated in style …. All things summer….

Find us on facebook at welshcountryfairs

For more information visit our website www.welshcountryfairs.co.uk

Tel: 01446 796065

Mobile: 07736246512

Email: info@welshcountryfairs.co.uk

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