Professor Merryn Hutchings of London Metropolitan University: discussed “Are schools now exam factories?" in this latest Green Room Podcast of the live event held in late October 2017.
What are we doing to children’s education?
Merryn appears on the BBC and Channel 4 speaking of her increasing
concern about the stress we are creating for our young. You can listen to other podcasts here
‘Counterpoint’ talks announced - Twentieth Anniversary Celebrations
Sustainable Wales announces celebrations of its Twentieth Anniversary.
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‘Counterpoint’ talks feature leading speakers, all experts in their fields.
Director, Margaret Minhinnick, says: “These events cover the charity’s concerns, which are environmental and cultural. They lead up to our AGM on November 16.”
The three talks take place at the GREEN ROOM, 5, James St. Porthcawl CF36 3BG.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 8pm
Professor Allan Williams:
‘Marine litter’. This problem intensifies as plastics break down, even entering the human bloodstream. A timely talk from one of the world’s leading ‘beachologists’
GREEN ROOM, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 8pm
Professor Merryn Hutchings of London Metropolitan University:
“Are schools now exam factories? What are we doing to children’s education?
Merryn appears on the BBC and Channel 4 speaking of her increasing concern about the stress we are creating for our young.
GREEN ROOM, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 8pm
Kevin Sinnott discusses his art and the extraordinary gallery he has created in Pontycymer. There will be opportunities to purchase new prints.
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These talks are part of the charity’s celebrations of its twentieth anniversary. These culminate at the STAGE DOOR, GRAND PAVILION, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 6.30pm – 10.00 pm (more information will be published about this celebration event/AGM on the blog and events sections).
Expect music and poetry and a performance by Porthcawl’s own ‘One Time Alive’, launching their third album, ‘Red Shift’.
Listen to the successful public meeting "Producing our own Energy"
An engaged audience listened and questioned the guest speakers: Chris Blake
Community Energy Wales, Robert Proctor RENEW Wales / Community Energy Wales, Shea Jones
Re-Energising Wales Project Officer, Institute of Welsh Affairs, Ceri Williams Bridgend C.B.C. and Margaret Minhinnick, Director Sustainable Wales.
The meeting was chaired by Richard Thomas (Sustainable Wales) and Introduced by Councillor Huw David, Leader of Bridgend County Borough Council. Welsh Government and Rural Development Plan (reach, BCBC) representatives were also present to talk with attendees and provide information on their current activities. Thanks to all who attended and spoke, and the help of the Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl staff for enabling the event to run smoothly.
An audio podcast of the meeting is now available. Listen now or download below or directly access the recording at SoundCloud where it can be downloaded.
Original description details of the event.
Other podcasts are available from Sustainable Wales
This recording omits the Shine a Light? film as you can watch that separately on our site
Winners of the Fair Trade Bake Off!
Local bakers grabbed their aprons and baked a cornucopia of fair trade cakes at the Bridgend Fairtrade Festival.
Bridgend County Fairtrade Partnership Fairtrade Festival ‘Bake-Off’ winners.
Event held at Carnegie House, Wyndham Street, Bridgend on Saturday 18th March.
Judge Madeleine Moon, MP
Judging the bake off
Adult winners
First prize: Ann Lewis with a decidedly Welsh-looking Spicy Fruit Cake with Mocha Icing.
Winning Cake
Second prize: Liz Worthington with a delicious intensely Orange Gluten-Free Cake.
Gluten free
Children – under 15 winners
1st Prize: Juliet gardner with a clever heart-shaped Fair-trade logo-designed Dark Chocolate & Coffee Cake.
Second prize: was 3+3/4 years-old Ffion Bourke with a Chocolate Henry the Hedgehog Cake.
The winner of the public vote was also Liz Worthington
(Prizes donated by SUSSED Porthcawl and Fairtrade Wales)
What's on... Spring update
Job Vacancy at SUSSED
SUSSED Wales Ethical Retailer, Porthcawl, requires...
Graduate Trainee, Supervisory Ethical Retail Assistant
Funded by Sustainable Wales and Jobs Growth Wales (c.28 hours) Initially for six months with view to extension.
Link to Online information & application
( https://ams.careerswales.com/Public/Vacancies/View.aspx?vid=36990 )
A unique opportunity for a highly motivated individual to help a community enterprise develop and flourish as part of a sustainable future.
Training will be provided. Volunteers will assist.
The part-time role requires supervision of retail sales in shop, at events and online of our ethically selected goods. Volunteer coordination, till management, administration and IT skills will also feature.
Responsible to Directors of SUSSED and Sustainable Wales Trustees.
Support document (more information on the role)
Calling all bakers! Autumn Fairtrade Bake Off 12 November
SUSSED on James St., Porthcawl CF36 3BG
Sustainable Wales is holding a fairtrade bake off at the Green Room (above SUSSED) in Porthcawl. We're inviting bakers, schools and local groups to dust the fairtrade flour off their aprons and get to work baking for this flavoursome event.
So whether you're an enthusiastic baker or an even more enthusiastic cake connoisseur, make a date in your diary for the bake off... Saturday 12 November 10am-4pm
Find out all the details on the bake off page!
Green Room: Anthony Hontoir Book Launch Friday 21 October
Journalist, film-maker and author Anthony Hontoir returned home after a week’s holiday in Devon during the summer of 2013 with an idea for a whodunit murder mystery, based around the tidal road in Aveton Gifford, which is renamed Watersford for the story. He decided that it should feature a new amateur detective in the form of Erwin Graham, a one-time Fleet Street crime reporter, assisted by his partner Belle, a gipsy. “The Tidal Road Mystery” is the first in a series of mystery tales, and it has been written along traditional whodunit lines, evoking the golden age of murder mysteries in which there are a number of suspects, each with a motive of their own, and they are all brought together at the end for Erwin Graham to explain how he has solved the crime and to reveal the culprit.
Information in our events listings Friday 21 Oct 8pm
Annual Report is available to read
Annual Report 2015-2016 available
The latest annual report for Sustainable Wales is now available following the recent AGM.
Download the PDF (2.2MB) - opens in a new window to read or download.
(Also available on our What we do pages)
Cover image for Annual Report