Cathays

  Cathays Community Centre now accepts payment by credit and debit card (chip & pin, and over the phone)! This means that you can pay for a coffee and snack in the cafe, rent out our main hall, meeting room, or cafe, and pay for a slot in one of our band practice rooms all by card.    

For anyone interested in steam on the 14th of September, the Cathays Community Centre will be putting on a small gathering of model, live steam road locomotives. Anyone is welcome to come along and watch or to bring down their own traction engine of sizes under 1″ scale. Time: 12:00                    Entry for …

On Thursday 28th of August, we marked what will hopefully turn into a long partnership with Dalton Street Day Centre through a day trip to Porthcawl. The 15 people involved first met up at (a very rainy) Dalton Street Centre, before heading off down the M4 towards Porthcawl. Alan was right in being optimistic about the weather, as the sun …

Last Monday (25th of August) Cathays Community Centre hosted the Fair / Play fundraiser event in aid of Oxfam and Under Construction Youth Music Project. Despite the awful weather, there was a good turnout with people of all ages turning up throughout the day. There were 3 raffles, with a huge amount of prizes handed out. Entertainment included a freestyle …

On Friday 15th Cathays Community Centre held a successful fun day to celebrate the work of its Teenscheme members. Amongst the events was a Puppet Show focusing on the subject of relationships, organised and produced by Teenscheme members, providing laughs for both parents and young people. The winner of the Bingo took home a selection of chocolates while there were …

Here’s a timetable of all the events taking place at the centre this week. The next timetable will be up on Monday.

This month’s film club will be showing Back to the Future! The Café will be open from 6 until 7 serving refreshments exclusively to film club members. Once again, the film will be completely free to watch!  

On the 26th of July an event took place at the community centre involving 4 acoustic acts in the cafe, free food, and a movie night upstairs which included two documentaries; We jam Econo and The Story of the Minutemen. The event was an overall success.  Bryony, Menna, Jack Harding and Jake Pezzack all performed wonderful sets and the movie night didn’t …

A big welcome to all the members, volunteers, and staff involved in Teenscheme this year! The (unusually) hot weather has meant that groups have been able to go to the park or for outdoor trips, but the members have also found time to let out their artistic sides this week! Here’s some of their creations!

Massive thanks to all the pupils who came to the centre on work experience Last week. Ciarra and Rhiannon created and carried out a survey into peoples perceptions of the centre, and Hasan and Jaccob focused on promotional material by creating two posters for the centre (which are up in the main hall reception). All four pupils were a massive …