Meetings

 Our 2023 / 24 Meetings

All meetings are at the Methodist Church Hall, Castle Street starting at 7.30 pm, though do join us for a cup of tea or coffee from 7pm.

9 September – Creating a Placemaking Plan for Abergavenny Town Centre with Chris
Jones, Regeneration and Owen Davies, Consulting
Monmouthshire County Council and Abergavenny Town Council are working together to develop a placemaking plan for Abergavenny. For a Placemaking Plan to be successful, it is vital that it is based on a clear understanding of the place and its people, identifying opportunities for positive change and providing coordination for proposed projects and activities. From the start, the consultants need to engage with a wide range of stakeholders and get creative input into shaping the future of the town. Chris and Owen want to listen to your views, so come along and have your say.

7 October – AGM at 7pm followed at 7.30 by a talk about Abergavenny Community Orchard
Susan Holder and Simon Bilsborough will give an illustrated talk showing how the Laurie Jones
Community Orchard started up 11 years ago, highlighting the range of events and annual celebrations based in the orchard. This little-known gem is given as an exemplar by the Wales in Bloom judges

11 November – A Vision for Sustainable Town Planting with Sarah Price, Chelsea Gold
Medal winner
Sarah, a resident of Abergavenny, will talk about her approach to town planting in 5 areas of the town centre as commissioned by the Town Council. Most will know her wonderful garden design for the Chapel and this year she opened her own garden to the public. 9 December – Xmas Social – details to be confirmed

18 January 2025 – A chance to socialise over a meal – venue tbc

10 February – Food Security and Regenerative Agriculture in our area – Sarah Dickins
Award-winning journalist and documentary maker who spent more than two decades honing her skills at the BBC, Sarah lives locally and, with her partner Nick Miller, jointly owns an organic Welsh hill farm where award-winning organic, purely pasture fed lambs are raised. They have started a regenerative agriculture project.

10 March – Will Davies, Cadw Inspector of Ancient Monuments & Archaeology, East Wales
An insight into the wide-ranging work of a Cadw inspector, touching on projects from Neolithic cairns to nuclear bunkers and everything in between.

14 April – Meeting topic and speakers tbc

12 May – The Gavenny Project- Kate Stinchcombe, Ecology Officer MCC
This project was started by the Civic Society in partnership with NRW and initially ran for 5 years with funding before the pandemic brought the project to a standstill. In July 2024 the project was resurrected as part of MCC’s Green Infrastructure Plan

9 June – Nevill Hall Cancer Unit – (speakers tbc)
In the restructuring of services at Nevill Hall, a new expanded cancer treatment centre to replace the Windsor Suite has been commissioned. Additionally, a new £38 million radiotherapy ‘satellite centre’ is being built which should be open in early 2025. This will enable patients to have treatment locally rather than travel to Velindre.