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Community Pantry Starting at Green Hall: Cefn Community Association is this month launching a weekly community pantry scheme and is appealing for more volunteers to help run it.
A community pantry supports people who may be struggling to get to supermarkets or who are experiencing difficulties affording weekly groceries due to issues such as limited mobility, not having a car, etc.
The scheme, which is organised by Reach and Elipse, provides people with a bag of food ranging from cupboard staples and family favourites to fresh fruit and vegetables for just £5.
The food is supplied by the charity Fare Share who are based in Cardiff.
They work with major retailers who supply the food – all in date.
People become members of the pantry for a nominal annual fee of £1 and then pay £5 for a bag of food which is dried, tinned and fresh fruit and vegetables worth approximately
£15- £20.
Cefn community pantry launches on May 25, with collections of food bags on Tuesdays at 2pm-4pm.
Volunteers, with their own transport will be needed to collect the supplies, pack the bags and serve the members.
For more information please contact Mary Thomas, who is coordinating the volunteer effort, at email: waltyclive2@gmail.com
New Fitness & Wellbeing Programme: A brand new fitness and wellbeing commitment programme specially designed for ‘plus size’ and complete beginners is starting in Cefn’s Community Centre (The Green Hall) this month.
Delivered by the local BMa Academy, a professional fitness trainer will help guide you towards a healthier lifestyle in a fun, friendly group environment.
The first of the weekly sessions will be on Thursday, May 20, from at 2pm-3pm in the community centre.
To book your first session visit the website now Body mass | BMa Academy | Wales or email: gavin@ bmaacademy.co.uk for more information.
‘Fitstep’ Fab Classes Restarting: Learn Latin and ballroom dance routines to great music at your own pace at the weekly ‘Fitstep’
FAB classes that will be re-starting at Cefn’s Community Centre (the “Green Hall”) on Fridays from 9.30am-10.30am starting from May 21.
Fitsteps for All Bodies, FAB, is a dance workout designed for people who want to keep fit, but prefer a lighter intensity, lower impact and slower style.
FAB combines style dance genres including Bossa Nova, foxtrot, swing jive, swing waltz, Charleston, Cha sway, flamenco, Argentine tango & more!
The class is for all abilities, you don’t need any dance experience and you don’t need to take a partner, you will just need to wear comfortable shoes or trainers and take water and a towel. Sessions are £5 each. Social distancing rules apply.
Book your space on https://app.gymcatch. com/provider/1759
Contact the Silver Award instructor Vanessa on Mobile: 07796 644612, email: vanessa0777@ hotmail.com or find out more on Facebook at @ vanessa.fitstepsporthcawl
Garden Club Plant Sale: The Club members have been really busy dividing and chopping, sowing seeds and taking cuttings.
There will be hardy and half hardy annuals, perennials and plants for your pond and plants for the house.
All members are welcome and encouraged to bring anything they may have spare to add to the variety on offer.
It will be held in the garden of 2 Bryn Terrace from 10 am on Saturday, May 22.
As ever the plants are very competitively priced
Social distancing will be observed.
The sale will continue until 1pm or until the plants have been sold
For further information contact the Secretary via cefncribwrgardeningclub @gmail.com.
Eco-Friendly Cefn School Wins Platinum Award: Staff and pupils at Cefn Cribwr Primary School are celebrating after being presented with the Eco Schools Platinum Green Flag Award.
Schools achieve platinum status once they have been awarded a Green Flag four times - demonstrating a longterm commitment to environmental education, student involvement and sustainability.
Since 2012, the school has been working to reduce energy consumption and boost its eco credentials.
This has included litter picks in the local community as part of the Love It, Don’t Trash It! Campaign in conjunction with Bridgend County Borough Council, Keep Wales Tidy, SeaQuest and Cefn Cribwr Community Council.
Fruit trees and wildflowers have been planted around the grounds to encourage bees, and there is a bike/ scooter parking area with staff and youngsters encouraged to walk or cycle to and from school. media etc, and looks forward to meeting you.
Bridgend Lions’ Book
Sale: Calling all avid readers. This coming Friday May 21 and Saturday May 22, members of Bridgend Lions will return to Bridgend’s Indoor Market from 10am-3pm.
Your support will be appreciated, as usual, in order to assist with much needed fundraising for the community.
Book Bargains for Children and Adults and Jigsaws too!
Bag it and Bin it!: It is pleasing to see the brightly painted signs BCBC has erected in the vicinity asking dog owners to pick up any fouling by their pet and dispose of in the nearest bin.
If a bin is not readily available perhaps they could dispose of it at home as more such bins are definitely required on the footpaths.
Line Dancing: A hall is needed for a line dancing class of approx 15 ladies in the Bridgend area for one evening per week (from 7pm-9pm) when an appropriate fee will be agreed.
If anyone can help please ring 01656 657
846 or email: carbrya@ supanet.com.
BAVO - Befriending Service: Have you heard of Covid-19 Telephone Befriending Service, which offers help and support to the most vulnerable members of our communities at this unsettling time through a volunteer Community Companions telephone befriending service?
Has lockdown left you bored and lonely? It’s good to talk!
How about lifting your spirits by volunteering? Befriending by phone helps you and the person you call, as a weekly chat can help you both reconnect with the world!
Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations (Bavo) is looking for volunteers aged 18plus to join its Covid-19 Telephone Befriending Service.
By helping to reduce fears for those experiencing anxiety and uncertainty, Bavo’s telephone project offers a friendly voice at a moment of increased isolation and loneliness and you could make a difference to someone’s day – an hour of your day goes a long way!
For further details email: bavo@bavo.org. uk or call Bavo on 01656 810 400.
Your support is always very much appreciated.