North Wales Links
A NORTH Wales charity has been in the swing of fundraising over the summer and notched up more than £4,500 from two events. More than £3,500 was raised for the North Wales Chrysalis Trust at a fundraising tournament at Mold Golf Club. A concert with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, which played in Brassed Off, in [...]
NorthWalesLinks webmaster Roy Norry is delighted by an article he spotted written by local man John Butler in response to Roy’s appeal to bring the Kathleen and May tall ship back to its place of birth, in Connah’s Quay, Deeside, North Wales. On his blog “John Butler’s Take on the world”, he says “This indomitable, [...]
The Quay Hotel in Deganwy, a 5 star waterfront hotel near Conwy in North Wales, is generously sponsoring an Authors Day and Book Fair on the 11th December 2010. Authors attending the Fair will be signing their books and meeting the public between 10am and 4pm. The event will also be open to publishers and [...]
North Wales Weather .com offers an exclusive and unique way to view the weather for the whole of North Wales, taking ownership of ‘the local weather’ as no one on line has done before so far. There is currently no coherent ‘north Wales’ based and ‘north Wales produced’ weather news service in the region. There [...]
The Himalayan Balsam may not be familiar to many, but if it’s not controlled, it will “carpet the riverbanks, stopping our native plants from growing, leaving little food and shelter for our native insects and animals”, says Ceri Morris, a volunteer concerned about the environment in the Machno Valley, North Wales. Volunteers locally have been [...]
APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS Betws y Coed Tourism Association is looking for experienced walkers with a Mountain Leader certificate or higher to guide a walk on one or several days of the festival. The organisers rely on the help and goodwill of volunteers and any proceeds will be used to finance publicity for next year’s festival. [...]
NORTH WALES FAMILIES SHARE THEIR VIEWS ON ALCOHOL AT WREXHAM EVENT 40% of Welsh 15-year-olds drink alcohol on a weekly basis More than 250,000 young people aged 11-16 in Wales reported being drunk at least twice During the summer holidays when the opportunities and temptations for young people to drink alcohol increase, families visiting the [...]
Charity Event and Fun Day Date: 21/08/2010 – 21/08/2010 Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Location: Parc Farm Caravan Park, Llanamon Yn Ial, Denbighshire ParcFarm’s annual charity fun day will be held on 21st August 2010. Attractions include, Pen-y-Bryn Falconry and displays form the axe men! As usual we will have our car boot at [...]
Natural parenting forum ‘the Bundle Jungle’ are holding a charity auction for the Cheshire & North Wales human milk bank, on 6th September. On their website at http://www.chestermilkbank.org.uk/ they explain: “the Cheshire and North Wales Human Milk Bank was established in 2003 and is based at the Countess of Chester Hospital. On average we process [...]
A new society and web site was launched on Friday 6th August 2010 to raise awareness and organise activities along one of North Wales most awe inspiring structures, the Poncysyllte Aqueduct between Trevor and Froncysyllte near Llangollen. The aquaduct carries the Llangollen canal across the Dee valley. The Aquaducks society say “The canal became a [...]