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the talk starts at 7.30pm. Refreshments available.
Coytrahen Gardening: On Wednesday, November 14, from 7pm, at the Philip Squires community Centre Coytrahen the Gardening Club host An Evening with Rita Sainsbury, medical herbalist.
Making use of plants, whose traditional uses are backed up by modern scientific research and clinical trials, herbalists treat the underlying cause of disease rather than just the symptoms.
Learn more about this fascinating subject and join us for what promises to be a most interesting evening.
Coytrahen Gardening Club is open to new members.
Membership is £10 per year and visitors are always welcome with a £2 per visit fee.
Therapy Dogs: Therapy Dogs Nationwide have a South Wales Representative in Ben the Poochon.
TDN is a national charity who can visit many different establishments such as schools, hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, care centres, prisons as well as other voluntary organisations and groups.
We are able to visit to offer therapy or to introduce our organisation and the work that we do.
Ben has been trained, assessed and is insured for visits and he is calm and happy to meet all sorts of ages, needs and also in all walks of life.
Contact Clare on 07792 6802 54 or email merchygarth@gmail. com.
Grow Wild: Grow Wild UK connects people to nature and each other by funding creative and innovative ideas, focused on UK native wildflowers plants and fungi.
Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations (BAVO) is offering the opportunity for local voluntary organisations and groups to meet a representative from Grow Wild UK on Tuesday, October 16 from 10am-3.30pm in BAVO’s offices in Maesteg.
Community project grants of £2,000 or £4,000 are available to groups to deliver projects in their community focused on UK native wildflowers, plants and fungi.
Youth projects funding provide young people aged 14-25 with £500 funding to do something creative and collaborative, inspired by UK native plants and fungi. Funding can help young people to improve their CV or personal statement, make connections with their community, develop new skills and help raise awareness of nature.
Half hour appointments are available to meet a representative from Grow Wild UK at BAVO.
To book your free place, contact BAVO by calling 01656 810 400 by Friday, October 5.
Evening Of Clairvoyance: An evening of clairvoyance will be held on Thursday, November 6, at the Ynysawdre Community Centre, Bryn Road Tondu. Tickets £5.
Doors open 6.30pm. Call Mrs Bryant on 01656 657463 or 07890 234235.
Spiritual Healing: Spiritual healing is offered each Tuesday from 6pm-7.30pm at the Ynysawdre Community Centre (at the junction of Bryn Road and Heol-yrYsgol).
There is no charge for the service but a small donation to help defray expenses is appreciated.
Call Mrs Bryant as before.
Christian Spiritualist Church: Meet Sundays at 6.30pm at the Ynysawdre Community Centre.
Call Mrs Bryant as above.
Nazareth Chapel: Nazareth Baptist Chapel Bryncethin offers a service at 4pm each Sunday.
For more informations, call Andrew Davies on 01656 663 652.
Items: Please send items to the address at the head of the column by the Wednesday evening for publication the following week. per workshop. Join local landscape artist Bryan Shambler for a relaxing one day workshop to develop your watercolur painting skills.
Suitable for all abilities – beginners to more advanced painters.
Princess of Wales Hospital Chapel: Next service is on Friday, October 19 at 3pm, Glyn Davies. All welcome.
Coity WI: Coity WI meets on the 3rd Thursday each month at 7pm-9pm.
John Sheen visited the meeting on September 20 and we discovered that his talk Five Boys and a Pasty was a stroll down memory lane for most of the members present.
We laughed a lot and were so engrossed by his reminiscences that time flew. John is a very good speaker and much in demand, however, he has promised to come back again with more memories and anecdotes to warm the heart.
The next meeting will be on the Thursday, October 18 when Alison Westwood will give us a gift wrapping demonstration, particularly useful at this time of year.
Bridgend Quakers: On September 14, a play called The Bundle was performed at Carnegie House telling a an asylum seeker’s story by Journeymen Theatre.
This was a moving and powerful telling of a true story.
Nearly £500 was raised for Christian Aid and a charity for homeless people.
This was a joint project with Churches Together in Bridgend.
For more information about Quakers in Bridgend please see our website http://www. bridgendquakers.org.uk.
Glamorgan Family History Society: The next meeting of the Bridgend Branch of the Glamorgan Family History Society is on Monday, October 15 at the Len Evans centre, Off Heol Persondy, Aberkenfig, CF32 9RF.
The speaker will be Dean Powell who will give a talk on Dr William Price of Llantrisant – Wales’ first radical.
Doors open at 7pm talk to Start 7.30pm.
Everyone Welcome Refreshments Available. Send Your News To: 01656 740026 jgoudge@sky.com
Forthcoming Event At Parc Slip Visitor Centre: Horrible Pumpkin Trail - have a go at a spookingly special wildlife trail around the reserve. Monday, October 29 to Wednesday, October 31. 11am-3pm Cost £2 per child (ages 6+) with adult supervision.
For more information please contact Tom via 01656 726987.
Trenchfoot Return To Green Hall: Trenchfoot the fabulous band, formed in 2014 to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, and celebrate the lives of the millions who were lost, returns to Cefn’s own Green Hall, seven days before their final ever performance at Swansea Grand.
Two years ago the hall was filled with toe tapping enjoyment, tears and laughter.
Join us again to remember the end of the First World War on Saturday, November 3, 7.30 pm.
Brought to the village by Cefn Gwyrdd through the Night Out Scheme, tickets are £8 and £7 each.
Call John or Carole Mason 01656 742 348. the exhibition will be open from 10am-3.30pm.
For more details please ring Secretary Jean Fowlds on 01656 856 091.
Community Path Clearing Squad: A group of volunteers have been busy tidying the overgrown community path from Bryngarw to Blaengarw.
The next clearing session will take place on Saturday, October 13, with everyone meeting at 10am on the path at the Braichy crossing in Pontyrhyl. The community path is a well loved and much used lifeline for Garw and the valley would be lost without it.
Any extra help would be very welcome indeed.
Garw Valley Tennis Club: Garw Valley Tennis Club will be holding their finals day on Saturday, October 13 at 10am.
Everyone is welcome and there will be free refreshments.
Parents and grandparents are invited to come along and watch the children play and receive their trophies.