Cathays Monthly Update – October 2017
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Cathays Monthly Update – October 2017 Check out the regular events on the Y/C calendar: www.yourcathays.org.uk Click on the links below to take you down to your area of interest: 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 Cathays? ........................................................................................................................................................ 2 Cathays October calendar at a glance: ............................................................................................................................. 3 Cardiff 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 Pentyrch 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