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Cream Tea and Easter Bonnet Competition.
Thornhill4U are holding a cream tea and Easter bonnet competition for the over 50s.
It will start at 3.00pm on Saturday 22nd March 2008 at Thornhill Community Centre.
Tickets are £1.00. Please call 01633 872944 or 01633 860723 for more information or to book your tickets.
Closing date for entries 19th March 2008.
Christmas Programme for Wednesday 12th December 2007
Tree Lighting Ceremony
Please visit this link if you would like to see film footage of the event|
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17.45pm Adults Meet at Llanderfal Complex Thornhill
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Carol and Pray with sleigh to leave complex to go to Tree lighting (sleigh to park outside the KingFisher Public House
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18.30p.m. Tree lighting (Mayor to light Christmas Tree say a few words - David Dunn Blessing.
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18.50pm Walk with sleigh to Leadon Court Nursing Home
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19.15 To Thornhill Community Centre for short carol service, Father Christmas & Refreshments.
Please note these are approximate times
All are welcome; children must be accompanied by an Adult
Thornhill 4 U Harvest Festival Supper 2007
The annual Thornhill 4 U Harvest Festival Supper will be held on Tuesday 25th September 2007 at 7.30 PM at Thornhill Community Hall, Leadon Court, Thornhill, Cwmbran.
Tickets are £1.00 per person with concessions for families and includes the cost of Soup and a Roll.
The evening will also include a food auction - any food donations would be gratefully received.
For tickets and further information please contact the Communities First Office on
01633 865148 or 01633 489805
Thornhill 4U will soon be starting their annual Santa Sleigh Rides 2006 where Santa can be seen travelling up and down the streets of Cwmbran collecting money for charity. We will also be holding our annual Tree Lighting ceremony outside Thornhill shops on December 13th.
More information on both these events will appear here shortly.
2006 Santa Sleigh Ride charity street collections.
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Dec.5th
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Llanyrafon (Cwmbran)
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From 5 pm.
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Dec.7th
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Fivelocks, West Pontnewydd & Upper Cwmbran
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From 5 pm.
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Dec.12th
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Fairwater & Greenmeadow (Cwmbran)
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From 5 pm.
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Dec13th.
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Thornhill Tree Lighting Ceremony
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TBC
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Dec.14th
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Thornhill (Cwmbran)
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From 5 pm.
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Dec.19th
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Croesyceiliog (Cwmbran)
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From 5 pm.
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First published in the Pontypool Free Press| on Wednesday 6th September 2006
A Cwmbran community group has been awarded a prestigious award for its public garden for the second year running. Thornhill 4 U community group has won the prestigious Green Pennant Award, the quality standard mark for community-managed green spaces in England and Wales for the garden of the Thornhill Community Centre.
Volunteers from the area set up the group four years ago during a partnership programme with Torfaen Voluntary Alliance. Since then they have been involved with a number of projects including transforming a patch of waste ground into an attractive garden for all the community to use.
Now the site is one of only 12 in Wales to win the award and has also been awarded a prize in this years Wales in Bloom contest.
The groups chairman Bob Clarke, said: "We've worked hard over the last few years to create a focal point for the village.
"All the volunteers who took part are very proud of waht we have been able to achieve. It has made a big difference to the community and is great to see it being used by local families.
"I view it as a little oasis of tranquillity in our community."
Thornhill 4U has also been spreading its gardning skills to others by encouraging the local children to take home plants and bulbs propagated by the group to plant themselves.
The group also holds regular events such as harvest suppers and helps raise money for local good causes by running a Santa Sleigh at Christmas.
Mr Clarke said the group always welcomes new volunteers to help out with its projects. If you have a couple of hours to spare and would like to get involved contact Mr Clarke on 01633 489805.
On 22nd September we held a Harvest Supper at the community Hall it was a great evening. We had a Festival celebration before we had a soup and roll supper followed by a food auction of gratefully donated assortments of fresh food and tins etc.
If you would like to become involved with Thornhill 4 U or any of our activities or events coming up eg Father Christmas Sleigh Runs, Carol Service etc. we would be pleased to hear from you.
Residents on a Cwmbran housing estate have turned a piece of waste ground into an oasis of colour for the whole community to enjoy. Volunteers from Thornhill, with the help of staff from Cwmbran Shopping spent the Easter break putting the finishing touches to a communal garden next to their community centre. The 80-foot garden has a strong recycling theme, and boasts patio seating areas, flower beds, a soft play area for under-fives, and wildlife-friendly shrubs, providing food for birds, insects and mammals living in the surrounding woodland. The benches and planters are made from waste plastic used for fizzy drink bottles.
The £15,500 project, which began in March, was principally funded by Cwmbran Shopping owner Prudential, which provided £10,000 through its Grass Roots programme. A further £5,500 was stumped up through the National Assembly's Community First programme. The work has been organised and supervised by conservation charity BTCV, with creative input from the community centre's playgroup, Thornhill 4 U, Monnow Court Action Group, the Communities First team, and centre users.
Steve Dixon, Torfaen community project officer for BTCV Cymru said: "This has been a real journey for everyone. There's now real excitement about seeing the garden finished and, hopefully, we can sign up people, young and old, to help look after it and enjoy watching it flourish."
Bob Clark, chairman of Thornhill 4 U, added: "Gardens make people feel far more relaxed and it's a means of restoring pride in the community and bringing people of all ages together."
Source: Free Press|
The Thornhill Community Garden was entered for The Green Pennant Award by The Civic Trust. We are pleased to announce that we have won this prestigious award. We would like to thank Steve Dixon of BTCV Cymru for all his help in this project. We are entering the 2006 awards hopeing to get the 2nd pennant.