Tag Archives: Splott
Splott author Bernice Rubens: The first ever female Booker Prize Winner
Bernice Ruth Rubens, the first female recipient of the coveted Booker Prize, was born right here in Splott on July 26th in 1928. Her father, Eli Rubens, was a Lithuanian Jew who had fled anti-Semitism and boarded a ship to New York, or so he thought. In fact, he had been tricked and was told […]
Traditional Shotokan Karate School comes to Splott in September
Learn karate from £4 a lesson as a new dojo opens in the Old Splott Library this September (first class is free!). Classes will run on a Tuesday and every other Saturday. Karate is known to help improve fitness, flexibility, self-confidence, reduce stress and teach you how to defend yourself. Kokoro Shotokan Karate starts in […]
Growing Street Talk Virtual Tea Party
Grab a cuppa and your favourite goody and join Growing Street Talk and your Splott neighbours for a GST Street Groups Tea Party! During the lockdown it’s clear that lots of people have been gardening and doing up their house frontages and front gardens. It’s been so inspirational that for the whole of August, Growing […]
New film showings released after sell-out first run of Street Food Cinema in Splott
After a sold-out first two weeks’ of screenings, Street Food Cinema, Cardiff’s first dedicated drive-in movie and street-food experience, has launched its next run of films to be screened in Splott. From kids’ classics to horror and musicals, tickets are now on sale for Drive, Toy Story 4, The Shining, Frozen, Mama Mia and The […]
STAR Hub to reopen on Tuesday 11th August
GLL, the charitable social enterprise that operates ‘Better’ leisure facilities across Cardiff on behalf of Cardiff City Council, has today announced its plans for a phased re-opening of leisure centres from Tuesday 11th August 2020. In the initial reopening phase, gyms, studio space and work out areas will re-open at the STAR Hub on Tuesday […]
Street Food Cinema premieres in Splott on Friday 7 August
Street Food Cinema will be launching Cardiff’s first dedicated Drive-In movie and street-food experience on Friday 07 August and…it’s in Splott! With space at the Splott Market site for 64 cars per show, tickets are now on sale for showings for the first half of August. The screenings include a mix of well-loved classics, like […]
New food cooperative launches in Splott (and they’re looking for a home!)
Splo-down Food Coop is a new community-led food cooperative seeking to increase local access to healthy food in Splott, Adamsdown and Tremorfa. Organisers plan to operate a ‘shop’ on a volunteer basis twice a week where members can collect and buy food. They also plan to sell/distribute a mixture of food from organic and package-free […]
From Concrete Triangle of Doom to Concrete Triangle of Bloom!
Earlier this year, Keep Splott Tidy, supported by Inksplott and Cardiff Community Housing Association, applied for a Keep Wales Tidy Local Places for Nature Wildlife Project grant to transform a pretty desolate area of Splott into a wildlife haven and…we only went and got it!!! Imagine this… The corner of Walker Road and Ordell Street […]
Cardiff Bay Rotary Club funds litter champions in Splott
Volunteer group, Keep Splott Tidy, was recently delighted to receive a funding boost of £250 from Cardiff Bay Rotary Club to buy extra litter pickers and hoops to help Splott residents conduct localised litter picks as part of their daily exercise. The funding boost will enable the group to buy five new litter pickers in […]