Climate Action Caerphilly, Caerffili Gweithredu Hinsawdd
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​​​​​​​​​​​​​Diversity Nature Gardens 2022
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Children have created and continue to develop a "Diversity Nature Gardens" to increase biodiversity in their school and to celebrate diversity of culture, nationality and race. Pupils between two and fourteen at a Welsh medium campus have taken part in the scheme, which was facilitated by Climate Action Caerphilly with the help of Keep Wales Tidy and funded by the Welsh Government. The gardens were created on a site used by Ysgol Gymraeg Caerffili, Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni and Parc y Felin Flying Start Centre. Love Caerphilly Church, which holds its service at the school, helped to create the garden. Members of Morgan Jones Community Allotments and Caerphilly Baha'i Community also helped with planting. The Caretaker of Parc y Felin Flying Starts Centre, who is from Barbados, had the honour of planting the John Ystumllyn Rose - a rose named after the first documented black gardener in Wales. Also known as Jac Du, he was brought to Wales by slave traders in the 1700s. He became a respected craftsman and horticulturalist, marrying a welsh maid Margaret Grufydd, the pair still remaining a symbol of unity.
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​​​​​​A Fence For All Project 2023
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The project 'made safe' the Diversity Nature Gardens at Y Gwyndy Campus, which had become a target for vandalim, litter and other antisocial behaviour. The grant from the National Lottery Community Fund was for a 1m x 53m twin wire fence to protect the boundary wall, which was too low. This has enabled the schools and community groups to use the gardens again for environmental activities. ​
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