Thank you to Cheryl Smith from the Parent Network Community Forum for our spooktacular get Crafty session today. Our members had fun making masks and decorations to use at our Halloween party on 27th October. Our next craft session will be on Tuesday 24th October from 12.30pm. Please contact enquiries@caerphillypeoplefirst.org if you would like to join us.
Yesterday was a beautiful morning at TARAGGAN Educational Gardens & Nursery where our volunteers worked hard weeding the plots and digging up leeks. Thank you to Sam and Kyle for showing us how to do this properly, and for giving us the leeks to take home to cook. Our volunteers plan to make soup, leeks in cheese sauce, quiche and stews with today’s harvest.
If you would like to volunteer with us or would like more information please contact our Head gardener Morgan Jones via enquiries@caerphillypeoplefirst.org
At Friday’s cookery session members prepared salad and made burgers. We served them with fries, pickles, coleslaw and onion rings. Everyone did a fantastic job and the group enjoyed taking part in the bingo and quiz.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered at the session – you worked very hard as always, and these sessions would be impossible without you all.
It was great to see some new faces and to see everyone socialising together and making new friends. Our new member Connor has chosen lasagne for next week.
Yesterday, Sam, Rees, Gethin, Chris, Anthony and myself (Morgan Jones) worked on our allotments at TARAGGAN. As head gardener, I give people tasks to do and tell our volunteers what we need. I started by telling the boys what tools we needed, and once these were collected we started digging the ground to remove as many weeds as possible.
After that I noticed that a few of the vegetables we’ve been growing were ready to be picked, so we picked carrots, curly kale, runner beans, and beetroot, which we took back to the office to be shared among the group. I asked Christy how much veg I was allowed to take home, and her response was ‘take as much veg as you would like’.
When we had finished, I asked the group if they could clean the tools and put them away neatly, so that John, who helps us with our plots, won’t need to tidy up after us. Thank you also to Kyle Richards for all your help.
If you would like to volunteer with us at TARAGGAN Educational Gardens & Nursery we are there every Tuesday morning from 10.30am. Please contact Morgan Jones on: enquiries@caerphillypeoplefirst.org
Yesterday our focus group took part in an Arts and Crafts session with Cheryl and Zoey from the Parent Network Community Forum. We made Halloween paper chains and coloured in Halloween templates ready for the trunk or treat event with the Parent Network in Morrisons underground car park on Monday 30th October. Our next craft session will be Tuesday 10th October, and if you’d like to book your place please contact Ffion on 07488 350518.
Last week’s cookery class was run by our lovely volunteers Cheryl and Zoey, when members cooked chicken curry and rice. Thanks to Amy who did a brilliant quiz and ran the bingo session. Don’t forget there is no cookery this Friday (29th September), so we will see you all on Friday 6th October when we will be cooking burgers, chips, and salad.
Yesterday was an absolutely amazing night at the GAVO Volunteer Achievement Awards (Caerphilly) ceremony at Blackwood Miners Institute where Caerphilly People First were presented with a ‘Highly Commended Community Inclusion’ award. We were over the moon when this was announced, and we’d like to say congratulations to the members who volunteer with us at TARAGGAN Educational Gardens and Nursery – well done to you all. Of course we ended the night in Wetherspoons where we celebrated our achievement. Well done to all the winners and runners up.
Thank you to Noah from Victim Support for delivering Hate Crime Training to our members yesterday. They found the training easy to understand and really enjoyed taking part in the session.
Hate crimes are crimes targeted at a person because of hostility or prejudice towards that person’s disability, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or transgender identity.
You can report a Hate Crime to the police or contact Victim Support for help and advice.
Here is the latest edition of the Caerphilly People First newsletter. We hope you enjoy reading about the activities of our members.
At the latest cookery session members prepared vegetables to go with sausage, mash, and gravy, and we also served hotdogs for the non veg lovers.
It was great to welcome new members and to see everyone socialising and having fun with the quiz and bingo (thanks Ffion). Thank you to all our volunteers who work very hard every week – we couldn’t do it without you.
Next time the lovely Cheryl & Zoe will be serving up chicken curry and rice, and our members will be preparing the ingredients. See you all on Friday, 11am until 2pm.
