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Cathays Monthly Update – April 2018

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Contents April comments: ................................................................................................................................................................ 2

Cathays Fair 2018 – reserving your own stall! .............................................................................................................. 2

Tidy Text – it’s still running !! ........................................................................................................................................ 2

Cardiff and the homeless: ............................................................................................................................................. 2

Cathays businesses giving each other money off deals? .............................................................................................. 2

Cathays April calendar at a glance: ................................................................................................................................... 3

Easter Egg Hunt @ Bute Park – Sunday 1st April ............................................................................................................... 4

Rave (Autism Friendly) @ Cathays Community Centre/CYCCP - Friday 6th April: ............................................................. 5

Repair Café @ Salvation Army Cathays - Saturday 7th April: ............................................................................................ 6

Cathays PACT (deferred due to Bank Hols) Monday 9th April: .......................................................................................... 7

Hands on History @ Cathays Heritage Library – Tues 10th & Weds 12th April .................................................................. 8

KCT: Keep Cathays Tidy – Saturday 14th April .................................................................................................................. 9

Cathays Compass meeting @ Monday 16th April: ......................................................................................................... 10

‘Real Cardiff – the flourishing city’ Local Historian Lecture @ Tuesday 17th April: ......................................................... 11

Cathays Fair 2018: Saturday 21st April from 2pm: .............................................................................. 12

May 2018 – Cathays Monthly Update: ........................................................................................................................... 13

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Cathays businesses giving each other

money off deals?

Although the ‘business group’ of Cathays

Compass did toy with the idea in 2016 of

having a ‘Cathays loyalty community card’ –

some businesses have tried a few things of

their own:

Svago’s offered local businesses money off for

their lunches. Would you be prepared to give

concessions to our 1,200+ families and 300+

local buinesses/faith groups/voluntary bodies

in Cathays?

What deals/offers can be mustered between

the community to increase local customer

footfall/link building and stronger consistent

customer retention for the businesses.

What do you think? Would you be willing to

collaborate a few hours a month to the

‘business sub group or community sub group

of Cathays Compass’ to flesh out the ideas of

supporting a better connected local

econonomy.

What can we all do together?

Community Message Board

Message your posters over to Cathays Compass

on Facebook!! If you got an event on the

following week – send your messages to:

www.facebook.com/cathayscompass

There is a lot of connections happening via this

groups. Please use it for family/faith/business

outreach messages:

April comments:

Cathays Fair 2018 – reserving your own stall! https://www.facebook.com/events/1622287984522060/

There is still time to book (some of last year’s stalls are still getting

in touch) – so if you request a ‘stall reservation form’ from one of

our primary headteachers (all requirements are included in the

stall reservation sheets information) – then please contact

[email protected] for the sheets.

Tidy Text – it’s still running !! Tiny url: https://goo.gl/EodMr4

After the snow caused many city districts/towns/villages – it is good to know that Tidy Text is still running. When one of the residents went up the whole of Rhymney Street – they spoke to 8-% of the houses (telling people not to put recycling out due to constraints snow put on our local services) which they were surprised to learn only 10% of families had signed up to Tidy Text – so they had not received the “don’t’ put bins out!” out.

For residents without access to smart phones or internet access, our Tidy Text service is available. You’ll receive a text message the day before your collection to remind you what bins/bags/sacks you need to put out for collection by 6am the following day.

To sign up, text ‘TIDY’ + your house number and postcode to

60163. For example: TIDY 307 CF24 4NH

Cardiff and the homeless:

Massive congrats to Nicki Feneck and Gareth Edwards for setting this event up and making every effort to bring all the groups (who help the homeless) come together – of which hopefully stronger collaboration will begin now to help the increasing homeless issue. Cathays Compass were represented at the homeless awareness/support conference on 21st March at City Hall. called ‘Let’s do something different’ collaboration campaign. Positive examples were offered by approximately 100 groups of what they do to support the many homeless in Cardiff; outreach, empower, retrain, reintegrate and bring back into communities. Several of the groups were invited to set up stalls at Cathays Fair 2018 to help support their own awareness raising amongst the community in case any of you wish to partake with these groups.

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Cathays April calendar at a glance:

Please check out the www.yourcathays.org.uk for a snapshot calendar of events happening on a regular monthly

basis all across Cathays. A rough idea is the image below of what you will find. New updates to the calendar have been

added in recent weeks – a lot of positives happening all over Cathays – please get involved.

Are you running a regular event in Cathays?

Please tell us and we’ll add the information the monthly calendar update.

Cathays

Fair 2018

www.facebook.co

m/events/1622287

984522060/

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Easter Egg Hunt @ Bute Park – Sunday 1st April

Image source: Bute Park.com

Easter Fun in Bute Park

Come and join the team for some Easter fun

Sunday 1st Apri: 13.00 – 15.00

Egg-citing art and craft activities and Easter egg hunt

Meet at the Bute Park Education Centre

Book a place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hwyl-y-pasg-ym-mharc-bute-easter-fun-in-bute-park-tickets-43751468821

£2 per child. Please pay on the day.

Suitable for children aged 3+

All children must be accompanied by an adult

The Education Centre is open every day 12 - 3pm

Like ‘Bute.Park.Cardiff’ on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/448200725595297/

Follow @buteparkcardiff on Twitter

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Rave (Autism Friendly) @ Cathays Community Centre/CYCCP - Friday 6th April:

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Repair Café @ Salvation Army Cathays - Saturday 7th April:

Facebook event invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/593098744409226/

Location: Where Fanny Street and May Street intersect!

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Cathays PACT (deferred due to Bank Hols) Monday 9th April:

7pm at Cathays Methodist Church (Crwys Road)

Due to the Easter Bank Holiday Monday looming – this will have an effect on many regular meetings. In the case of

the PACT – PCSO Lloyd remind us all that this PACT meeting will be on Monday 9th April.

This is your opportunity to voice concerns about possible issues in the neighbourhood:

• Parking issues

• Planning issues

• Drug issues

• Antisocial activity

Please come and discuss any issues you have in your street or other parts of Cathays.

Access into the building:

To get into the PACT (Police and Community Together) please go to the right side of Cathays Methodist Church –

where you will find the blue side doors. One of them should be open for you all to get into the PACT.

Thank you PCSO David Lloyd for many years of service to Cathays!!

Just so you are aware, PCSO Lloyd has transferred to Gabalfa Ward now and is succeeded by PCSO Ceri Francis and

PCSO Chris Blatchford who will be his successors for the Cathays district.

Mr Lloyd always worked hard to build a positive association with many of you and had great tenacity chasing up every

bit of intel he received from hundreds of our neighbours over the many years that he has served Cathays. Chasing up

every angle – he was responsible for helping get rid of a lot of our problems in your neighbourhood.

He will be missed. Many families will miss his presence & efforts!

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Hands on History @ Cathays Heritage Library – Tues 10th & Weds 12th April

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KCT: Keep Cathays Tidy – Saturday 14th April

Location:

Saturday, 10am – meeting at Co-Op Food (rear Car Park!)

Litter pickers, bags (and rings) will be provided – please wear appropriate strong footwear, rain mac etc.

We will be targeting ‘Gower Cathays’ with Daniel St, Malfant St, Clun Terrace

and other streets in the North-East part of Cathays.

Please click on the www.keepcathaystidy.org.uk and click on the social media icons for Facebook KCT and

Twitter KCT and keep in touch of all our KCT updates.

Families, young professionals, students & Postgrads from all three of the colleges/universities, Faith groups, local businesses

and local voluntary bodies all invited to come and ‘Keep Cathays Tidy’ !!!

Please nominate areas around Cathays you’d like to see get some community TLC to start 2018 on the right foot !!

Sarah, Ceri and Chris – Keep Cathays Tidy

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Cathays Compass meeting @ Monday 16th April:

5:30pm at St Monica’s Primary School

https://www.facebook.com/events/1622287984522060/

Any last minute stalls can still apply – just do it ASAP please!!!

If you wish to get a stall reservation form (and read all the requirements for food/insurance etc.) please email one of our Cathays headteachers: [email protected] and Abi will send you the appropriate form!

You can see above the space that will be available for the 60-100 stalls, bouncy castle, live music etc.

Cathays Compass meeting:

• The bulk of the meeting will be dedicated to last minute preparation for Cathays Fair 2018

• Discussions about Strawberry Tea event

• Discussions about the summer event in July or August

• New projects

• What funding options are available

The five sub-groups from Cathays Compass of:

1. Family 2. Faith 3. Community 4. Business 5. Funding

The five groups are always happy to take on new attendees, even if just to discuss ideas for the five categories on how we can ensure Cathays is a more inclusive and functional community!

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‘Real Cardiff – the flourishing city’ Local Historian Lecture @ Tuesday 17th April:

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Cathays Fair 2018: Saturday 21st April from 2pm:

It’s finally here!! Your community event to launch the 2018 Spring in Cathays.

Event invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/1622287984522060/

Top of Pentyrch Street, the Cathays Fair 2018 will share space on

pedestrianised zone, as well as both playgrounds of St Monica’s CIW

Primary School and Gladstone Primary School. Everyone is welcome!

STALLS: food, bouncy castle, musicians, artist, face painting, charities, voluntary

groups and local businesses – something for everyone!!!

Access to the Cathays Fair can be gained from three different points:

• Side entrance off

Cwmdare Street

• Main entrance via up

top pf Pentyrch Street

• Top of Crwys Road

• Top of Cathays

Terrace

• Bottom of

Whitchurch Road

• Bottom of Fairoak

Road.

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May 2018 – Cathays Monthly Update: Please get your notices/events/offers/new groups/new initiatives in for next months. We will be publicising anything

positive that is happening in Cathays.

To the new businesses and family/voluntary groups setting up in recent weeks/months – the offer is always open to

add your launch posters for free via this Cathays Monthly Update to help raise your profile in the locale! For everyone

else – a reminder if you submit your posters we need:

• Details of your event (date, location, times etc.)

• Social media links (FB event, url or twitter name etc.)

• Poster / pictures to promote your event

• Main content for public to read (possible costs)

Events to come include:

• Strawberry Tea event

• Cathays Summer Picnic for everyone

Anything else – just check out the www.yourcathays.org.uk calendar and other info on the website.

All immediate events please message www.facebook.com/cathayscompass and it can be distributed/shared

through everyone on there too.

Regards,

Paulus