Last month, we shared the exciting news that a recently discovered letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien had finally confirmed a story that had circulated around Crickhowell for decades that the town was the inspiration for Crickhollow in The Lord of the Rings. Since then, the story has taken an extraordinary turn. J.R.R Tolkien’s illustration, The […]
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Beyond the Stalls: The Local Story Behind Abergavenny Food Festival
Every September, Abergavenny Food Festival transforms our town into a bustling food hub, filling its streets with local producers, live cooking, inspiring talks and thousands of people brought together by a shared love of food. Yet despite being one of the UK’s best-known food festivals, a few myths still linger. The biggest? That it’s simply […]
Back to Nature Fest 2026
My name is Stacey I am a complementary therapist and farmer’s wife who offers treatments such as reflexology, oncology and aromatherapy massage, and reflexology lymph drainage, in my summer house on our 96 acre dairy farm in Trelleck Grange, Chepstow. I also make natural homemade products like soaps using raw cows milk and lotion bars […]
Books: Community
In keeping with this month’s theme of Community, we explore the idea through literature, sharing our top picks for this month’s selection. These books examine community in a variety of ways, from connection and belonging to conflict, resilience and shared experience. Births Deaths Marriages Laura Barnett Births, Deaths and Marriages follows six close university friends: […]
The Longest Yarn 2 – Britain at War Exhibition
The Longest Yarn is a group of volunteer knitters and crocheters based all over the UK and abroad who have worked together to produce 2 exhibitions depicting life during WWII out of wool. Details of the exhibitions can be found at:www.thelongestyarn.com. The first exhibition is currently being displayed in Saint-Hillaire-Petitville, France near to the D-Day […]
Autistic Girls Network: Abergavenny Face to Face Group
Autistic Girls Network has one mission and it’s to empower, support and provide community to autistic girls and autistic non-binary young people; for many years now autistic girls receive a diagnosis six years later than boys which can be detrimental to self esteem, mental health and the ability to do everyday tasks like go to […]
Honour for Martha A Lifetime Dedicated to Changing Lives
For more than a quarter of a century, Martha Holman has quietly transformed lives in rural Zimbabwe while building lasting connections between communities in Wales and southern Africa. Now, her remarkable contribution has been recognised at the highest level with the award of an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List. Martha received the honour […]
Abergavenny Breastfeeding Support Group
The Abergavenny Breastfeeding Support Group meets every Thursday morning, 9:30–11:30am, at the Community Centre on Merthyr Road. The group is open to all breastfeeding (or combi-feeding) mothers and expectant mothers. It’s free to attend and you can turn up as you are, at whatever time you can manage. We know how it is! The group […]
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