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Has something of interest happened that we've not mentioned? Why not use our feedback link or drop the details into St. Brides Major Post Office. Go to: 2011 2012 Five pupils from
Cowbridge Rotary Club organised a seven-a-side junior football tournament for local primary schools in 2012 in which St. Brides Major School pupils were the winning team. St Brides Major School won a local primary schools seven-a-side junior football tournament organised by the Rotary Club of Cowbridge. Medals and certificates were awarded to the winners and runners-up.
Villagers
attended a Garden Party on Saturday, 2nd June, 2012 at the Vicarage, St.
Brides Major, to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II St. Brides Major School Street Party to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II was held on Friday, 1st June, 2012. St. Brides Major Primary School year six pupils buried a time capsule near the steps of a new junior playground in May, 2012.
The Big Welsh Coastal Walk was held
To raise funds for the Carnival to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, a prize bingo evening and auction was held on Friday, 27th April, 2012, in the Church Hall, St. Brides Major and the refreshments included tea or coffee with Welsh cakes. Members of the Parish, including: The Venerable Philip Morris (Archdeacon of Margam and Priest in Charge) and his wife Sheila, as well as a St. Bridget's bell ringer, attended Llandaff Cathedral on Thursday, 26th April, 2012, when the Queen visited Wales to start the celebrations of her Diamond Jubilee. Thanks to a £5,000
Lottery Award, a colour brochure was produced for Coed-y-Bwl Nature Reserve,
Castle-upon-Alun
The Mobile Library service (provided by the Vale of Glamorgan Council) ceased in December, 2011. Penybont Surf Life Saving Club was awarded £2,000 in December, 2011, by the Co-operative Membership Community Fund in aid of a new slipway and club house at Ogmore-by-Sea. Members of the The Co-operative Group can elect to donate all or part of their twice-yearly dividend payments which is then used to help local community projects; application forms can be obtained from www.co-operative.coop/communityfund. Vale MP Alun Cairns volunteered to work a lunchtime shift behind the bar at the Fox & Hounds, St. Brides Major, during British Pub Week (that ran from 28th October to 6th November) in order to learn the challenges facing the pub trade. Volunteers working at Ceod-y-Bwl (Daffodil Wood) were highly commended in the Vale of Glamorgan Biodiversity Partnership Awards for Wildlife. It was announced in November, 2011 that a local resident of St. Brides Major had come second in the Best Village Garden category of the Vale in Bloom Competition that was judged in August, 2011. August, 2011 saw the village shop in St. Brides Major become a Mace Store. Penybont Surf Lifesaving Club announced an attempt to secure lottery funding towards building a new slipway and clubhouse at Ogmore Rivermouth with the intention of also providing a venue that could be used by the local community. An open meeting was held on Saturday, 16th July, 2011 to discuss the plans. Following national surveys it was announced in May, 2011 that otter activity had been recorded in the major rivers of Bridgend, including Ogmore, as well as evidence of breeding, and that water quality was being carefully monitored because a safe and clean environment was essential for these animals and other wildlife. The seventh Earl of Dunraven died
peacefully at his home in Adare County Limerick on Friday, 25th March, 2011.
Sunday, 22nd May, 2011 saw the grand opening of the two function rooms known as The Barn at West Farm, Southerndown, incorporating a fully licensed bar, in-house catering facilities and digital projectors for cinema-like experience, together with grounds that could accommodate a number of marquees. In May, 2011 hopes were raised that another pair of swans would nest on St. Brides Major pond. Pen-y-Bont Surf Life Saving Club were presented with a cheque from the Tidy Towns project (organised by Keep Wales Tidy) in April 2011 to buy a new trailer so that volunteers could collect then cart away refuse that came in on the tide, had been swept down tributary rivers or left behind by visitors, at Ogmore Rivermouth, Merthyr Mawr Warren and isolated areas.
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