Green St Hilary

Notes from the Green St Hilary Meeting held on 25 April 2022 in the Village Hall.
Attending: Johnny, Vicky, Becci, Neil, Chris, Liz, Kevin, Rawley, Donal, John, Caroline.
Apologies: Owain

The meeting was an open agenda meeting. Discussion focused on technologies that people in St Hilary and the area were currently using or had tried. Villagers expounded on the pros and cons of each green technology they had knowledge of.

Each person said why they were attending the meeting and what they hoped the group might achieve. Some were attending in response to spiralling energy costs, whilst all expressed a desire to be more environmentally friendly in our approaches to generating energy.

Click here for more information

3Cs

Cut, clear and clean group
10am Wednesday, 6 July
10am Wednesday, 17 August

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

Community Café

Village Hall
11am Wednesday, 6 July
11am Wednesday, 3 August

Drop in for coffee/tea, cake and a chat. 10.30am to 12 noon every 1st Wednesday of the month

NSPCC Jazz Night: Saturday, 3 September

At the Roundhouse

More details in due course
 

Accommodation needed

Here is a message from Kimberley Butts:

Hello, my name is Kim.

My partner and I are looking for somewhere to live in or around St Hilary. My partner, Lewis, is currently living at Coed Hills where he is one of the main on-site carpenters and I am living in Cardiff where I am a yoga instructor and run foraging workshops.

We would like to rent one of the following to live:

- annex building
- outhouse
- space on some land to put a static caravan/yurt
- or something like the above that is suitable for living

Duration of stay is currently unknown but it would be a minimum of 6 months.

We don’t currently have a budget but if you have something that could be suitable, please contact me so we can discuss further.

I am available on 07384579108 or via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Thank you
Kim

Scaffolding on the Church Tower!

The long awaited repairs to the church tower, which was becoming structurally unsafe, have begun and scaffolding has been erected this week. Without these repairs the church and churchyard would have had to close because of the danger of falling masonry.

The work will include:
• repairs/renewal of lead work
• repointing, rendering and lime wash of the parapet
• repairs to fractured and loose parapet corbels
• installation of new internal walkways
It is expected that the repairs and upgrade will take at least 8 weeks.

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Reporting footpath problems

This is a broken step on a stile between the Downs and Stonacre on the footpath to Cowbridge

If you come across any broken stiles/gates or obstructions on a right of way in the Vale you can report it to the Council’s Public Rights of Way via Contact OneVale on 01446 700111 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

The more people that report it, the more chance of it being fixed

If you want an OS grid reference and/or a What 3 Words address please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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

Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more details

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:

1. Providing village insurance for events and activities
2. Having a constitution, necessary for applying for grants
3. 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.

Click here to read about all the activities

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.

Click here to see the two maps on this page