Electoral Arrangement Review Bridgend County Borough (closes 7th April 2025)
Bridgend County Borough Council has undertaken an Electoral Arrangement review of all Town and Community Councils across Bridgend County Borough. The review has considered the following: The number of Town and Community Councils – including the option of mergers, alterations or creating new ones. Electoral arrangements – including the number of councillors, the number of wards, the number of councillors elected in each […]
Read more >BCBC Budget Consultation 2025-26 (closes 26th January 2025)
Budget Consultation 2025-26 This consultation is designed to ensure that you can have a say in the budget-setting process. It builds upon the results of last year’s process, during which you told us that we should look at introducing charges or increasing them if they were already in place, reduce staffing costs, and review what […]
Read more >Repair to the War Memorial, Pontycymer
The Garw Valley Community Council carried out some repairs to the war memorial in Pontycymer in time for the Remembrance Service on Sunday 10th November 2024. Below are some photos of the repaired memorial:
Read more >Improvements to the Strand Blaengarw
The Garw Valley Community Council has now taken over the management of the green space at The Strand, Blaengarw. Following a successful application by GVCC to BCBC we received 50% match funding to replace the walls, steps and handrail at this location and in addition, from GVCC funds, we’re installed 3 new benches, 3 new […]
Read more >Christmas Tree Pantygog
In addition to our usual Christmas trees, decorations and lights throughout the four wards in the valley, this year we added a tree with solar lights to the Pocket Park in Pantygog. See photo below of the tree:
Read more >Garw Valley Community Council Christmas Concert 2024
Once again this year the Garw Valley Community Council’s Christmas Concert was a huge success, thanks to the school children of Blaengarw Primary School and the Ogmore Valley Male Voice Choir. The concert was very well attended and seats were filled downstairs as were several rows in the balcony at Blaengarw Workmen’s Hall. The event […]
Read more >Christmas Gifts for the children of the 5 Primary Schools in the Valley
Once again this year the Garw Valley Community Council delivered Christmas gifts to each child who attends one of the five primary schools in the area – Bettws, Blaengarw, Calon y Cymoedd, Ffaldau and Tynyrheol. This year we gave each child a gift bag containing a pair of multi-coloured gloves and a box of 12 […]
Read more >Notice of Vacancies for Councillors Bettws and Blaengarw
We currently have two vacancies for councillors to represent the Bettws and Blaengarw wards, please see the notices in the two lines below: Notice of Vacancy Bettws Notice of Vacancy Blaengarw
Read more >Clean Steps Pontycymer
This week our contractor has been out and power washed the steps that lead from the surgery down to Pontycymer lake, see photo below:
Read more >Christmas Concert 6th December 2024 at Blaengarw
Following the success of the Garw Valley Community Council’s Christmas Concert last year in Llangeinor, this year’s concert will be held on 6th December 2024 at 7.00 pm at Blaengarw Workmen’s Hall. Tickets are £3 and are available to purchase from Blaengarw Primary School or on request and payment to one of our councillors. This […]
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