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Tom Routledge: Work Experience Placement

My name is Tom Routledge. I was on my work experience at ProMo-Cymru during one week this summer. I enjoyed my five days at ProMo-Cymru and was involved in a number of different tasks.

During the five days I was shown how the theSprout.co.uk website is moderated and I had to evaluate the website. On Tuesday there was staff meeting about many topics such as the Sprout website and the ProMo-Cymru website, I visited Radio Cardiff together with the Youth Editorial Worker Ryan and watched a live show.

The things I enjoyed most about work experience were the people I worked with because they were helpful and very friendly and I also enjoyed working with a specific website because I was able to learn how a website is moderated and how to control a website.

I would recommend coming to this organisation for work experience because it was great to work with a website like the Sprout or ProMo-Cymru.

EVI

Due to unforeseen building delays, the Phase 1 re-development of the ground floor of the Ebbw Vale Institute is now behind schedule and we do not envisage having a physical presence in the building until after January 2009. We await several safety reports and will schedule a meeting with BGCBC shortly to confirm the re-start of building works by the contractors.

We have several clients groups, organisations and tenants lined up to work in partnership once the first stage development plan & building works have been carried out. We also have many parties interested in volunteering at EVI and we are currently working on a volunteer program to be put in place for January.

The number of future client beneficiaries can be estimated from our work in the Blaenau Gwent area over the past six years. During this period we have worked with well over two hundred individuals & groups of all ages right through the borough, and have achieved a great success rate with individual, group & cultural business development.

We feel this will have a considerable knock on effect throughout the Heads Of The Valleys corridor once the EVI project is established, and estimate at least three hundred individuals through the door and benefiting from use of the building/facilities in the first year.

Dont forget to check out the blog when you can...

http://ebbwvaleinstitute.blogspot.com/

We will endeavour to update with new developments as and when they happen.

Exciting times ahead...

theSprout - theLaunch - theVote

Having now amassed a Youth Editorial Group that includes music writers, fashion journos, a climate change 'mini-minister,' south Wales' most prolific young proofreader, a student award-winning kidnapee who turned down Trisha, a soon to be published fantasy novelist and a radio presenter and producer, www.theSprout.co.uk is enjoying an increase in submissions and is to have its official launch the first week of November.

It'll be a bangs and whistles event featuring live music, comedy, DJs, good food and drink and someone official in a suit saying a few words (so no heckling). We're wide open to suggestions as to performers, but what we'd really like your opinion on is the venue. Bearing in mind that theSprout's age range includes 11-25-year-olds, we're looking for somewhere that can cater for those that would like a Pimms or two, and those that are strictly squash-bound. Please go to www.theSprout.co.uk, scroll down to the bottom left and vote for a venue.

The Cardiff Gypsy and Traveller Project

For the last few months Promo-CyMru has worked alongside the Cardiff Gypsy and Traveller Project organising workshops for the young travellers. In the past we have done art & crafts workshops, drumming, clothes design, break-dancing and now we have just started up a 5-a-side football team for the boys. On August 12th & 13th the team has been entered into a tournament which takes place at Channel View, Grangetown.

We're Still Here

On behalf of Glyn Walters:

"I have recently opened a new website specifically to advertise the three and a half hour DVD 2 disc set of the history of Ebbw Vale works, first released in 2001.

Hopefully this will result in people from outside Blaenau Gwent (including former steelworkers who have emigrated) the opportunity of seeing the films for the very first time. The site contains 3 pages of information, including sample snippets from both discs.

In order to view these snippets you will need to type in www.ebbwvalearchives.talktalk.net on the ADDRESS BAR at the top of this page.

At this point in time, it is not possible to access the site via a search engine, as no link tabs have been added yet, so I would be grateful if you could help me to reach as wide an audience as possible, by passing on this information to your own personal mailing contacts (particularly those living abroad).

Later on I intend to extend the site to include other items of interest, including Blaenau Gwent's impressive contribution to Garden Festival Wales - THE TREE OF TIME.
If you can remember Sian Jenkins and her talking tree - then WATCH THIS SPACE.

Thank you,
Glyn Walters"

Ryan Mullin – “The Splint”

Grooveland Records team are excited to announce our second release this year: Ryan Mullin - "The Splint" !

Ryan is a young up and coming DJ & producer hailing from Limavady in Northern Ireland and is currently building a reputation as one of the most promising artists on the dance scene.

“The Splint” very effectively showcases Ryan’s years of exposure to minmal, progressive, and tech-house.

Here's what some DJs said about the track:

"Love the tune 9/10..I'm gonna drop it at Space, Ibiza..top draw!!!" - Jonathan Ulysses

"7/10 for a good strong floor contender" - Marcia Carr, I-DJ Magazine

"Amazing sound" - Sergio Matina, Tendenzia Records, Italy

"Minimal but moves in all the right directions" - Adam Walton, BBC


For more info about Ryan Mullin go to:

http://www.myspace.com/ryanmullinmusic

ProMo-Cymru offers

To keep you informed of some of the services we have to offer:

- Music Workshops - African and Carnival Drumming, Rock and Pop

- Event Management

- Web and Print Design - we have developed highly regarded participative youth web sites for Cardiff (www.thesprout.co.uk), Newport (www.youngnewport.co.uk) and in the process of creating one for Swansea.

If there are other areas you are looking to develop within the creative sectors lets us know - we can help.

Contact:

marco@promo-cymru.org
www.promo-cymru.org
029 2046 2222

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Food Market in Cardiff

Riverside Community Market Association (RCMA) has recently received three year funding from the Tudor Trust to employ a full-time equivalent Community Food Coordinator to deliver a range of food and health linked outreach and education activities in the local community. Meanwhile, RCMA's Community Garden Project - where local people can learn how to grow their own food in Cardiff - continues to thrive and recently won a Wales Diversity Award and a Food Standards Agency AFAL Award.

The award winning Riverside Market (runner up in last year’s Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards), is now in its 10th year! - running every Sunday morning from 10am - 2pm on Fitzhamon Embankment, opposite the Millennium Stadium, is also expanding its existing range of more than 30 superb stalls - recent additions include home-made healthy ready meals (just the thing to keep in the freezer for those busy days) and locally collected mushrooms.

Roath Real Food Market, Riverside's sister Market is going from strength to strength - every Saturday morning from 9.30am - 1pm in the car park of the Mackintosh Sports Club in Keppoch Street, Roath. As well as a fantastic atmosphere and friendly stallholders with an average 25 stalls of the best food in Wales and new stalls coming every week (we now have locally made pet food for dog lovers!). There is now live music, Indian Head Massage available, and Fair Trade tea and coffee.

So...have you been to the markets lately? - if not, do you know what you’re missing - we really do have the tastiest food in Cardiff, and you’re supporting local producers and sustainable farming.