A big thank you to Amanda Land for letting Creative Community Libraries (Vale of Glamorgan) display her fabulous work at St Paul's Penarth. Her works are entitled 'playground views'.

The Clothes Bank is at CF61, Station Road Llantwit Major and is open from 12.30 to 2pm on Thursdays. All donations of clothes and shoes accepted only on Thursdays. Cal and his team look forward to seeing you.

Getting Involved in Volunteering

Good news is that the station at Nell's Point is finally open to the public following closure during the pandemic. This is at the watchkeeper's discretion or we can arrange an organised visit! We are also looking for volunteers.

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Job Vacancy with Guide Dogs

Dinas Powys Fairoaks resident`s had a fabulous time at the Youldon house Christmas buffet. With a wonderful spread of food complete with  chocolate and strawberry gateaux.

Please read the latest news from East Vale Community Transport.

Cranfield Trust On Call is available to provide one-off and immediate management support for charity leaders as they face the challenges at this time. It is a free service for social welfare charities and can be accessed through the Trust’s website.

The Council is consulting on its draft Annual Delivery Plan for 2023-24. The draft Annual Delivery Plan sets out the actions we will undertake in 2023-24 as part of the delivery of the Council’s Corporate Plan for 2020 – 25. The Corporate Plan sets our priorities for a five year period whilst the draft Annual Delivery Plan details what we will take forward in 2023-24. The closing date for comments is the 8th January 2023.

Being a blood donor

With the impending threats to energy this winter, Cardiff and District RAYNET have been putting together it’s winter energy package to allow the group to respond to potential outages in communities within Cardiff and the Vale.

Bro Radio, the Vale's local radio station,  has launched an annual day to celebrate everything great about living, working and visiting the Vale of Glamorgan. The first Love the Vale day will take place on Wednesday 16th November and builds on the success of a similar event in 2019, which saw almost 100 local people take over the radio station.

Does your organisation have a strategic or operational challenge that could benefit from free business expertise and support? Business in the Community’s (BITC) Skills Exchange Match platform is the easiest and most efficient way for community organisations to access free one-to-one support, consultancy or pro-bono services from our network of 600+ business members across the UK.

The National Lottery is celebrating the work of amazing individuals in tackling the refugee crisis, by unveiling a showstopping projection depicting the story of Ukrainian Caseworker from the Welsh Refugee Council, Vladyslava Zhmuro.

Appointments are still available, just click on the link…

WCVA’s Finance Committee has launched its annual consultation into Welsh Government’s draft Budget for the upcoming year. The aim of this consultation is to explore expectations of the Budget for 2023-24, and inform scrutiny of it.

For the first time, this consultation includes a direct question about support for the voluntary sector.

This survey will close on Friday 4th November 2022.

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CAVRA has introduced a new single point of contact for call-out communications. The new Number is 0300 102 4569.