Cathays Monthly Update – October 2017

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Contents October comments: ...... 2 Build good relationships with our students: ...... 2 Outreach efforts: ...... 2 Sharing your own things/events/news on social media: ...... 2 Compost ? ...... 2 Cathays October calendar at a glance: ...... 3 Marathon – Sunday 1st October/Partial Cathays roads shut-down!! ...... 4 Cathays Heritage Library: ‘Family history’ 4th October & ‘Setting up an eMail’ 8th October ...... 5 Repair Cafe, Saturday, 7th October – 10am-2pm @ ‘The Table’ ...... 6 Meeting Room Community Café - Saturday, 7th October 11am-3pm ...... 7 Cathays Compass: CATHAYS INFO FEST Monday, 9th October – 6:30pm ...... 8 Share Cardiff: “Circle Gathering 001” - Wednesday, 11th October ...... 9 KCT: Keep Cathays Tidy – litter picking event – Saturday, 14th October...... 10 Dar Ul-Isra invites you to; ‘Hear about Hajj’ on Thursday, 12th October ...... 11 Elvis ‘Legends Night’ – at Cathays Sports and Social – Saturday 14th October!! ...... 12 Environmental Champions – Waste Awareness Walkabout; 16th – 19th Oct ...... 13 Walk & Talk – Share Cardiff/Global Gardens event – Saturday 21st October ...... 14 New shop: Thai massage in Cathays @ Royal Orchid Thai Massage: ...... 15 Little Acorns; Baby & Toddler groups in Cathays – every Wednesday! ...... 16 November – Cathays Monthly Update: ...... 17

October comments: Sharing your own

First off – please remember the Cardiff Marathon is on Sunday things/events/news on social st 1 October – so it will be extremely hard to travel around Cardiff media: in your car!! Please avoid using your car in Cathays as it will be www.facebook.com/cathayscompass/ very limited access to various main streets!!!

Autumn is well underway, thousands of young people have Please do consider adding/sharing your migrated back into the area and some of you have mild concerns events or good news to the ‘Cathays about the noise & waste issue etc. Compass Facebook page’ – it has really grown in outreach in less than 12 months Build good relationships with our students: with some messages getting many views and

All I can reinforce is the positive and professional (dare I say reaching over 1000 recipients from many of parental) stance many of you have undertaken with your own you sharing the links. Real evidence of streets outreach efforts to help our young 18-22 year old Cathays trying to work together as a proper transient demographic fit in as comfortably and quickly as community! possible.

It pleases me no end to hear neighbours saying how the good examples they’ve seen of families giving the odd white-&-red bags out, and giving good examples of “if your stuck – just knock on our door and ask!” (Like when the students are not sure which day to put the bins out – the most obvious thing to tell them is look out your door in the evenings and see if the neighbours have put their bins out)

With families improving facades of houses & now building more planters in gardens (or on the streets) this positive psychological The word of mouth is carrying really well and re-enforcement that Cathays is a resident/family dense preparation is well underway for Decembers environment and not some student ghetto that is to be abused Cathays Christmas Carols to end 2017 and and dumped upon – is seeing some improvements. preparation for the Spring Cathays Fair is If there are suffering repeated offenders (that 5% minority of building strength with a view for the event to students that make us wrongly and uniformly blame every be held on Satuday 21st April 2018. student – for the bin mess) then go out with your phones, take pictures and give it to the council or your local councillors as Compost Cathays? evidence. Anything else? Parking issues? Noise complaints? Look on the ‘positive actions’ on the Your Cathays website and take Between some of our families, Keep action. A hundred Cathaysians – a thousand of you taking positive Cathays Tidy, Davius Nursery, Cathays action and taking a stance will reinforce our community essence. Compass and others – a small trial will be Also – please join us for the Environmental Champions run to have street composters developed Walkabouts – see below! from re-used materials to see if we can produce on-site compost sources for the Outreach efforts: upcoming Cathays Planting initiative.

This email now reaches just over 400 recipients in Cathays (350 This does bring into question a whole issue families and the rest local businesses, faith groups and voluntary of potential vandalism, debris, insurance bodies – all in Cathays.) The monthly updates are also being issues and much else to boot – yet as the circulated by various Council partnerships and professional projects continue – you will all be apprised groups too, which hopefully will show those around Cardiff what of the results and it may encourage you to a vibrant and amazing place Cathays is!! We still have a long way consider having one in your own back to get the email list up to the 1,150 families who live here. garden (or possibly your street).

Cathays October 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.

Cardiff Marathon – Sunday 1st October/Partial Cathays roads shut-down!!

The first of the month will see some of you running in the annual Cardiff marathon – to this, with great chagrin we must accept a lot of roads in and outside Cathays will be shut down severely limiting your access to outside our fair district of Cathays.

All of you should have had these A3 maps posted through your doors (some of you twice!) of which a rough scan has been enclosed below to remind you what it looks like.

This is an important event for fitness and cross-district communities of Cardiff, no doubt hundreds of us will be lining the streets to cheer everyone on who partakes in the running….. Please try NOT to drive around Cathays on Sunday 1st October ……. it will save you a hug headache if you either stay in or just walk to everywhere you need to get to !!!

Cathays Heritage Library: ‘Family history’ 4th October & ‘Setting up an eMail’ 8th October

Your local heritage library is running these two workshops to help our neighbours (at top of Cathays Terrace.)

These are both run for free for all of you:

Family history – website and resources workshop: Please do stop by and benefit from these amazing workshops – delve into your personal history – who were your ancestors/family 100-200 years ago?

Setting up and using email: We are aware a lot of residents (particularly quite a few of our elders) do not have access to email and are unsure about setting up an email account – we hope these sessions will help you!

Katherine - Head Librarian

Repair Cafe, Saturday, 7th October – 10am-2pm @ ‘The Table’

https://www.facebook.com/events/130882050976007/

Don’t throw it out !!!! Come and get your broken belongings repaired for free!!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/repaircafewales/

Twitter: @repaircafewales Venue: The Table at Baptist Church, Pentyrch Street

Please take this opportunity to sample the delights of The Table (at Pentyrch Baptist Church – approximately halfway up Pentyrch Street) with their amazing tasty hot drinks, sandwiches and cakes!!

Joe – Repair Cafe

Meeting Room Community Café - Saturday, 7th October 11am-3pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/262591620914603/

The Meeting Room Cafe is back to the first Saturday of the month as normal!

Come and join our monthly #veggie and #vegan community cafe!

At The Meeting Room Cafe you can treat your taste buds to homemade veggie and vegan food for very affordable prices.

We are completely volunteer run and strive to provide an open, relaxing community space for Cathays to come together and unite whilst enjoying a drink, cake or something warmer. There is live music each month and often various craft and jewelry stalls make an appearance.

The Meeting Room is a fully inclusive community venture, held within the Church of St Andrew and St Teilo, Cardiff.

Cathays Compass: CATHAYS INFO FEST Monday, 9th October – 6:30pm

The .pdf version of the Cathays Info Fest is enclosed with this email – please do distribute to your local networks. Everyone across Cardiff is invited – we are all pushing to give these five groups mentioned on the poster as much publicity as possible, to ensure our community have awareness, access and involvement with these organisations that will help the full ranges of our age demographic!

Anne – Chair, Liz – Vice-Chair, Malcolm – Treasurer (Cathays Compass)

Share Cardiff: “Circle Gathering 001” - Wednesday, 11th October

https://www.facebook.com/events/114343582593662/ Share Cardiff ~ Circle Gathering 001

Ride My Bike Cafe, 26 Park Place, Cardiff, 5.30pm - 7.30pm, Wednesday 11th October

What is the event: A monthly meet-up for coming together, getting to know one another and offering mutual support, sharing ideas, planning, and organising.

What could Share Cardiff be? In the first of our Circle Gatherings we will share ideas, inspiration and aspiration!

What does sharing, solidarity and the new economy mean for you? Are you interested in sustainability, active citizenship, civic life and participatory culture?

Ride My Bike Cafe are kindly letting us use their space for free. To support this local independent business, please do purchase a drink and/or food whilst you are there. We hear the cakes are divine!

We like to talk. If you'd like to know more, ring our organiser Sally on 07702 480 513, email [email protected] or join the conversation in the Facebook group.

Any FB links etc. Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/share-cardiff-circle-gathering-001-tickets-37806205378 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sharecardiff/ Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sharecardiff/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sharecardiff Website: https://sharecardiff.wordpress.com

KCT: Keep Cathays Tidy – litter picking event – Saturday, 14th October

Location: Saturday, 10am – Cogan Park

(Top of Senghennydd Road, connecting to Woodville Road )

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

We will be targeting ‘The gardens of Cathays’ Green spaces and alleyways

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 updates.

Residents, students from all three universities, Faith groups, local businesses and local voluntary bodies all invited to come and ‘Keep Cathays Tidy’ !!!

November, December & January events – please nominate areas around Cathays you’d like to see get some community TLC. Look up the Facebook group and message on there what areas need litter picking!

Sarah, Ceri and Chris – Keep Cathays Tidy

Once we get some funding we will be looking at getting more serious tools to tackle the alleyways and overgrown green spaces. I am sure many of you have locations in & around Cathays that you wish to see receive some serious clean up/improvements.

The website does need a bit of work – yet we are slowly developing the ‘KCT Shapes’ where families/faith groups and the businesses are co-ordinating with each other on keeping their patch of Cathays clean. We actively encourage all of you to join/set up your ‘own shape’ in Cathays.

Dar Ul-Isra invites you to; ‘Hear about Hajj’ on Thursday, 12th October

Dar Ul-Isra invites you all on Thursday of 12th October from 7pm to ‘Hear about Hajj’: https://www.facebook.com/events/1444240182333045/

We welcome you to join us at our annual interfaith event, Hear about Hajj which is in its 6th year. It’s an opportunity for members of the wider community to learn more about the Muslim pilgrimage called Hajj over a 3 course meal. The evening starts at 7pm with a short presentation on what Hajj actually is; we are then joined by recent Hajji's (pilgrims who have just returned from completing the Hajj) who talk briefly about their personal experience. By 8pm the food begins to be served and we settle in for dinner and more intimate conversations at our tables.

We have booked a private dining hall at Grameen Juboraj, Richmond Road, CF24 3BT and negotiated a 3 course Indian buffet dinner. Tickets are on sale at £12 which covers the whole evening and includes starters, main meal (vegetarian options are available) and deserts plus tea/coffee.

We hope you are able to join us and strengthen the community relationships across Cardiff.

Thursday 12th October starting 7pm,

Grameen Juboraj, 195 Richmond Road (next to Varsity and Masala Bazar, junction of Albany Road),

Cardiff, CF24 3BT

Parking is available along Richmond Road

Elvis ‘Legends Night’ – at Cathays Sports and Social – Saturday 14th October!!

Elvis night – everyone welcome to come and ‘Swing like the King !!!’ Check out - http://www.cssc.ukpub.net/

Environmental Champions – Waste Awareness Walkabout; 16th – 19th Oct

The new email for Environmental Champions is [email protected] – please add this to your contact list so it does not go to junk email (like most of Paulus’ emails to Cathays probably do!!)

We will be teaming up with Waste Strategy Team at to welcome our new students into the area and ensure they are given ‘the kit’ (green recycling bags, composting bags, waste calendars and other appropriate information etc.) We ask that the residents join us if they can on these walkabouts – as it will show the efforts we all try and collaborate upon to ensure we reduce the amount of waste and litter in Cathays! Walkabout times: starting times are 4:45pm

Monday 16th October

 Meeting point: Tesco, Cathays Terrace

Tuesday 17th October

 Meeting point: LIDL, Maindy Road

Wednesday 18th October

 Meeting point: Cardiff University Student Union (Senghennydd Road)

Thursday 19th October

 Meeting point: Outside RIFT BAR (used to be Varsity Bar), Richmond Road

We welcome all student and resident volunteers to attend. The Police and the councillors will join us on some of the evening’s walkabout efforts.

Emma – Cardiff Council

Rachael – Environmental Champions

Walk & Talk – Share Cardiff/Global Gardens event – Saturday 21st October

See event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/130363327702178/

Autumn Walk & Talk ~ Theme: Urban Growing

Edible Cardiff are having a community garden open day, so we thought it would be a good thing to visit a community garden in Cardiff; Global Gardens (you can see other community gardens around Cardiff on the www.cardifftransition.org.uk/mapping-food/ webpage and find more community gardens and allotments all around Cardiff) The concept of more communities growing their own food is becoming paramount all around the UK !!!!

Global Gardens is a community growing project; their vision is to create a growing space that supports community- based sharing of food and cultures. We will visit the allotment site where they are cultivating an organic kitchen garden, celebrating crops from around the world. The crops grown are used in their monthly community suppers at the Embassy café and for other community-shared meals.

The conversation will be themed around the Incredible Edible movement, urban growing and the future of food in our city. What might local, sustainable food production and distribution look like? How can we support a food manifesto? How can we support Edible Cardiff (emerging in your city)?

Come meet people with a common interest of healthy growing/healthy eating/healthy cooking and build your mutual interest links across Cardiff – come and build the food community!!!!

Check out the Facebook event page for the walking map and where we’ll be stopping for tea and apple cake! We look forward to seeing you there!

Polly – Global Gardens

Sally – Share Cardiff

New shop: Thai massage in Cathays @ Royal Orchid Thai Massage:

At Royal Orchid Thai Massage we pride ourselves on ensuring that our customers are well looked after by a qualified professional therapist that operate to the highest standards; Ladies and gentlemen please do visit us today and treat yourself !

Opening hours: Monday – Saturday 10am to 8pm (Sunday close at 5pm) Closed all Bank Holidays.

16 Mundy Place, Cathays, Cardiff. CF24 4BZ. Call us today and book an appointment 07518 239898.

Treatments Offered:

- Traditional Thai Massage - Shoulder and Back Massage - Coconut Hot Oil Massage - Thai Oil Massage - Sports Massage - Thai Foot Massage

£25/half hour or £40/hour

Little Acorns; Baby & Toddler groups in Cathays – every Wednesday!

Following on wonderful news of 7 babies being born in Cathays (that we know of so far) it has been highlighted that a lot of new mum’s and dads are unaware we have babies groups being run in Cathays. This is not the only one – the more we hear about – the more we’ll publicise!

We are sensitive to the fact that some of our new parents don’t have good transport links (particularly in the bad weather) and it would be idea for them to find a baby/parent & toddler group near to where they live in Cathays (and Central). The more groups we hear from – the better. Little Acorns – Parent & Toddler group

is (during school term-time) being run at Woodville Baptist Church (half way up Crwys Road)

 It is every Wednesday during school term time  1.30pm-3.00pm at Woodville Baptist Church  Toys and activities suitable for 0-4 yrs  Homemade cake are available for parents and toddlers  Opportunity for you to get to know people for parents and carers

Thank you Mrs Chaloner for heads up and the info on this!!

November – 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.

 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)

Christmas tree and Christmas carols at top of Pentyrch Street – we are asking for donations to help with costs of tree – a Xmas pub quiz (in Nov) is on the cards for helping put some money towards the Cathays Christmas Tree. Please get involved – more info to follow.

Spring 2018 – Cathays Fair is being planned for Saturday 21st April 2018 which we are hoping for 70 stalls this time around; anything that has to do with Cathays – we encourage you to set up a stall.

Your Cathays #7 newsletter is slowly going out (it takes 4-6 weeks to get the 1,200 hard copies out as I talk to 80%- 90% of residents who I deliver to in order to discuss, give/receive update and offer advice where it may help.

Anything else – just check out the www.yourcathays.org.uk calendar and other info on the website. See you all at the Autumn Cathays Info Fest on Monday 9th, October 6:30pm at Woodville Baptist Church

Regards,

Paulus