With the arrival of autumn, the oriel CRiC gallery features a selection of work from Richard Bavin’s Lea and Paget’s Wood series – ‘A Year in the Life of an Ancient Woodland’ alongside that of The Picturemakers – a collective of visual artists working in Mid-Wales. Work by a number of respected regional exhibitors has […]
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Wales Fair Trade Fair incorporates local trade
This year’s Wales Fair Trade Fair, which is in Brecon Guild Hall on Saturday 7th Oct and in The Market Hall, Abergavenny on Sunday 8th Oct is opening its doors to local traders who specialise in home made arts and crafts, as explained by David Holman, co-founder of the event. He said “The Fairtrade Foundation […]
Crickhowell Literary Festival 2017
The culture, beauty and talent of Wales and its people are being celebrated in eight days of fascinating events. Two distinguished speakers mark the brilliance of our literary heritage and the character of our people: Dr Rowan Williams will discuss the work of the great Welsh poet, Henry Vaughan and Owen Sheers will pay tribute […]
Wildlife in Art
Local Artist to exhibit in major national Wildlife art exhibition. Work by Crickhowell based local artist, Martin Truefitt-Baker has been selected from over 800 submissions to appear alongside paintings by some of Britain’s leading wildlife artists. The exhibition will be on display at Mall Galleries in London between 19th and 29th October. Martin, who used […]
Canine Enrichment
As dog owners we control all aspects of our dog’s lives. If you think about it, we choose the time to get up and go to bed, take them out for toilet breaks, groom them, feed them, play with them and decide everything about their daily routines. We take away a lot of our dogs’ […]
Brecon Drink Can Recycling are looking for your help
Brecon Drink Can Recycling has set up crowd funding in the hope that they will be able to purchase much needed equipment – a can crusher and compactor. What we do: We collect from the public, local bars and cafes around Brecon. Collected drinks cans are then separated by hand and crushed under foot, then […]
Crickhowell Library Garden
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Cicero Recent visitors to Crickhowell Library may have noticed some changes outside. A group of enthusiastic volunteers has cleared an unloved and underused space to create a community garden. With support from Crickhowell High School, Crickhowell District and Community Partnership, the Friends […]
The Building Bridges Project
The Building Bridges Project brings together young people with additional needs from across Monmouthshire. It is searching for a new source of money as its current funding is set to finish in December this year. The Project was set up in November 2013 to run for four years with a grant from the Big Lottery; […]
Bring Back Bailey Park Pool
Some of you may have recently heard the buzz about Bailey Park Pool and the campaign to Bring It Back. This is the brainchild of Craig Titchener who runs the online Facebook Page; Abergavenny Voice. We invited Craig to put pen to paper so we could learn about it first hand. Here at the Focus, […]
Midwives@Ethiopia
Report by Hannah Merret A few months ago, two of our local midwives asked whether I would be able to accompany them on a trip to Ethiopia to photograph the work of their charity Midwives@Ethiopia. In May of this year, what started off as a light-hearted conversation over coffee became a reality, as I joined […]
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