St Hilary's Celebration of Winter's Eve
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12 Diwrnod o'r Nadolig / 12 Days of Christmas
Helping those who are less fortunate than ourselves
The telephone box will be lit up for Christmas, and for the first 12 days of December we are calling on villagers to support local food banks by donating goodies, such as Christmas crackers, puddings and cake, mince pies, selection boxes, chocolates, mince pies, biscuits, stollen, savoury snacks, etc.
Bruce and Lyn Rankine also continue to collect general groceries for the Dusty Forge Foodbank such as tinned soups, tinned fruit, baked beans, cereals, biscuits, tea, coffee, tinned rice pudding, pasta, rice, pasta sauces, crisps and squash. These items can be dropped in a box in their carport at Hendre (2nd house on the right after the telephone box.)
Weigh To Go: Every Wednesday, 3pm to 5pm
Weigh To Go is a mobile refill shop providing a range of organic foodstuffs and eco friendly products including oils, vinegars, pulses, spices, grains, flours, nuts, cereals, shampoo and household cleaning products
Plus you can have a coffee and a chat!
www.weightogorefill.co.uk
Their mobile shop will be in the village every Wednesday from 3pm to 5pm outside Little Hall Cottage
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3Cs
Cut, clear and clean group
10am Wednesday, 1 December
10am Wednesday, 5 January
Every 1st Wednesday of the month (normally!). Everybody is welcome to join us – meet at the tree outside the rear door of the village hall.
Click here for the history of 3Cs
Children and other homo sapiens in the village
Royal Wedding Celebrations 2011
Over the last few years there has been an influx of new villagers often with young families - here are the current (November 2021) number of villagers:
• 54 children and young adults (58 including looked after grandchildren and other honarary members of the village)
• 198 adults (excluding the Manor House)
• 252 villagers in total
• 91 households
St Hilary Book Club
A St Hilary Book Club has been established recently, which will meet once a month.
The aim of the group will be to discuss a variety of different genres in a comfortable, friendly and social setting – perhaps with a glass of wine!
If you would like details please speak to or email Jude This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Pam This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Community Café
Village Hall
11am Wednesday, 1 December
11am Wednesday, 5 January
Drop in for coffee/tea, cake and a chat. 10.30am to 12 noon every 1st Wednesday of the month
FRALF Car Cleaning
Fred and Alfie - making your car smile and gleam
£8 per car
Call or message 07719 019940
Autoglym cleaning products provided - all that is needed is access to water and a hosepipe
St Hilary Forum – Supporting the Village
or, demystifying the elusive organisation!
Can you answer the question “what is the St Hilary Forum”? Probably not. So here is your crib sheet.
The short answer is that the Forum helps projects and ideas to come about by:
- Providing village insurance for events and activities
- Having a constitution, necessary for applying for grants
- Managing a bank account to pay for, build up and hold reserves for village equipment
The Forum does not (to date) hold or undertake activities itself. But the above three “enablers” means that lots of villagers can.
Picnic bench update
Caroline Neudegg is leading the project for a picnic bench for the village which is close to fruition
Ewart Schofield and Stephen Craddock have offered to help with the construction of the table and the base respectively
Walks and strolls
The walks and strolls section of the website includes:
- The 10 core circular walks from St Hilary ranging from gentle strolls (1 to 2 miles) to monster expeditions (over 10 miles)
- 4 different routes to Cowbridge, which can be combined for circular routes
- Strolling over The Clump for a takeaway coffee at Stalling Café or round the Garn or to Beaupre Castle
Foodbank donations
Lynn and Bruce Rankin are collecting food donations on behalf of the Cardiff Vineyard church in Cardiff. The food will be distributed to those in desperate need. Examples include tinned soup, tinned tomatoes, baked beans, instant coffee, rice, pasta, UHT milk, cereal, biscuits – but no fresh items
Please leave donations with Lynn and Bruce at Hendre in a box in their carport (on the right about 100 yards past the phone box on the lane towards Llantrithyd – here’s the link to the map of village houses)
Map of the village with house names
Click on this link for a pdf file of a map of the location of houses in the village - useful if you need to provide directions to family, friends or delivery van drivers. There are two pages: the first is of houses in the centre of the village, the second is of outlying houses.