ALL Bridgend County Borough schools will be closed tomorrow (1 March) and Friday 2 March as a result of severe weather warnings to ensure the safety of pupils, parents and staff. Please RT.
Bridgend County Borough Council stands in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community and are proud to be flying our rainbow and transgender flag this month in support of
#PrideMonth
🌈
#Pride2023
#EQBCBC
Thank you to our refuse crews and street cleansing teams who are doing a phenomenal job at keeping our county borough clean 👏
#UnsungHeroes
✅ Vital roles
✅ Hundreds of tonnes more waste & recycling
✅ 1,600 homes a day
✅ Workloads have skyrocketed
➡️
Rosie was among those celebrating amazing results at
@BryntirionComp
this morning. She’s off to
@unibirmingham
to study Chemical Engineering after picking up three A* grades! 👏👏👏
We are wishing local lollipop lady Pat a happy retirement after 40 years of service! 🚸
Pat joined the council in 1980 and has worked for Nantyfyllon Primary School since 1984, making sure children get to and from school safely 👉
We’d like to thank all key workers for the incredible way they're responding to the Covid-19 outbreak, and so we're joining in with Councils across the UK to take part in
#ThankHoliday
and recognise all of the essential staff keeping the world moving throughout the weekend. 👏🏻👏🏻
An incredible piece of artwork has been produced at
@BryntegSchool
by an A Level art student featuring iconic war memorials and the names of the schools pupils whose lives were sadly lost during the war.
#UnsungHeroes
: Cleaners and caretakers 👏
✅ Early morning starts
✅ Cleaning 6 schools set up as emergency childcare hubs
✅ Cleaning 4 Flying start centre and corporate buildings
✅ Cleaning free school meals collection points
✅ Using 15x the amount of bleach
#ClapForCleaners
We can confirm that talks are ongoing with the
@Ospreys
about the team potentially relocating to the Dunraven Brewery Field from the 2025/26 season onwards.
🔗
After successful trials at
#Maesteg
Welfare Park and the Woodlands playing fields in
#Pencoed
we’ll soon be installing 15 more of these stations which supply free dog mess bags across the county borough.
#BagItBinIt
At
@yggllangynwyd
, 100% of students achieved two or more
#alevelresults2018
at grades A*-E. 💯
20% of them were A*-A! Fantastic results ahead of the school’s 10th anniversary this September. 👏
Thank you to our refuse crews and street cleansing teams who are doing a phenomenal job at keeping our county borough clean 👏
#UnsungHeroes
✅ Vital roles
✅ Hundreds of tonnes more waste & recycling
✅ 1,600 homes a day
✅ Workloads have skyrocketed
➡️
We were delighted to support a local art teacher’s idea to bring people closer together by painting a ‘Sit and Chat bench’ in Porthcawl’s Griffin Park where you can take a seat if you’re happy to chat to others.
Thanks to Jo Keen for the idea – we hope the bench is well used.
Check out the new market square at Bridgend indoor market 👀
Keep your eyes peeled for new social groups and family events that will soon take place in this wheelchair and pram friendly area. 1/2
11-year-old Macey has been sew busy creating over 200 scrub bags and is hoping her efforts to help
#Bridgend
County Borough's key workers will earn her a gold
#BluePeter
badge 🏅
Thank you for helping key workers to keep themselves safe, Macey!👏
@CBBC
#stayhomehero
Staff and volunteers at
@Maesyrhaulps
have painted a mural to commemorate the last day of operation for local emergency childcare hubs.
The council and its partners would like to thank everyone who has helped make the hubs a fantastic success over the last three months. 👏👏👏
Schoolchildren in Porthcawl have started a new project aimed at reducing littering on local streets and beaches. Please support their desire to see their town being loved, not trashed.
🚨 Bridgend has been named the fifth happiest place to live in Wales, with properties in the area being snapped up within an average of 24 days!
✔️Bustling towns
✔️Polite and friendly community
✔️Excellent commuter links
✔️ Beautiful beaches, valleys, nature and green spaces.
With an increased volume of residents staying home and a higher number of cars being parked in streets, residents are reminded to park sensibly in order for recycling and waste services to operate efficiently ♻️
New
#Pencoed
#activetravel
maps are now available which show all of the traffic-free cycle routes, on-road cycle routes, crossings, and paths for cutting through housing estates which make it easier than ever to swap four wheels for two! 🚴♀️🚴♂️
Our civic offices are one of several in the region turning green this weekend to shine a light on the various organisations which support mental health to mark
#WorldMentalHealthDay
💚
Find out more ➡️
#WMHD2020
#BeSeenInGreen
We are using our emergency powers to close the road to
#RestBay
beach in
#Porthcawl
.
This will be patrolled and enforced as it has been reported that groups of people are driving to the area and gathering on the beach.
Read more here ➡️
#StayHome
BCB ROADS UPDATE: We will continue to treat all primary routes today as well as aiming to treat secondary routes, side roads, junctions and areas identified as problematic. Thanks for your continued patience and to our staff who are working hard to keep services running.
We’ve added seventeen new dog waste bag stations along popular local dog walking routes. Please make use of the free bags and dispose of your pet’s poo responsibly!
As part of a range of outbreak measures to help residents stay safe ahead of the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, we’ve teamed up with
@swpolice
to dispatch tannoy cars to travel across the county borough and target areas where people are reported to be ignoring... 1/3
Major conservation work is due to begin at
#CoityCastle
this spring! 🏰
Coity Castle has stood for over 900 years and thanks to part of a £4.25m investment in
@cadwwales
from
@WelshGovernment
we hope it stand for many more hundreds of years.
Read more ➡️
Thank you to our refuse crews and street cleansing teams who are doing a phenomenal job at keeping our county borough clean 👏
#UnsungHeroes
✅ Vital roles
✅ Hundreds of tonnes more waste & recycling
✅ 1,600 homes a day
✅ Workloads have skyrocketed
➡️
Well done to
@yggllangynwyd
for receiving an outstanding Estyn inspection report. 👏👏
The school plays a key role in helping to increase the number of Welsh speakers in the area.
🔗
If you, your sports club or Town and Community Council could be affected by the recent proposals for the future of playing fields, sports facilities and parks pavilions, you are invited to speak at our Committee meeting on Monday 4 November at 10.00am. 1/2
We’re pleased to have agreed a deal with
@RNLI
for their lifeguards to continue patrolling four
#Porthcawl
beaches until summer 2021.
#RespectTheWater
🏖️🌊
🌞Daytime ➡️after dark 🌛
This new path through the Woodlands playing field in
#Pencoed
has a special surface so that it gives a gentle glow to guide walkers and cyclists in the dark.
#ActiveTravel
🚲🛴🚶♀️🚶♂️
Positive news for Welsh-speaking children with autism spectrum disorders – there’s public support for a specialist learning facility at
@yggllangynwyd
:
Stuart Baldwin (Welsh Labour/Llafur Cymru), Steven James Bletsoe(Independent) and Tim Wood(Independent) are the new councillors for Bridgend Central ward.
Lots of excited children at Betws Primary this morning where year 3 pupils met
@ospreys
player
@tomhabbers
. They’ve completed a project on Tom and enjoyed asking him lots of questions!
Dog fouling. It stinks, it’s disgusting, and it’s dangerous for kids. 💩
So we want to stamp it out on our streets and playing fields by introducing fines of up to £100 for anyone who doesn’t pick up after their 🐶 in public areas.
#BagItBinIt
Local restrictions remain in place within
#Bridgend
County Borough.
Here's a message from Bridgend County Borough Council Leader, Huw David, urging residents to continue following the rules and what to do if you develop symptoms of Covid-19👇
We’re proud to support LGBT History Month once again this year. Discrimination of any form is unacceptable and has no place in Bridgend County Borough.
#LGBTHM19
🏳️🌈
All applications have now been processed and allocated places for keyworker childcare are being drawn up, so you will receive notification very soon. We have added a sixth hub - West Park Primary - for children from the Cynffig and Porthcawl cluster areas (1/2)
Three former care homes in
#Bridgend
County Borough are being refurbished to provide extra bed capacity during the peak of the
#coronavirus
outbreak.
With
@CwmTafMorgannwg
we're making around 150 beds available to support Princess of Wales Hospital.
➡️
Uplifting graffiti project inspires the community!
Recent artwork colours the subways at Brackla and Merthyr Mawr Road, in a bid to inspire and uplift the local community.
We have confirmed with the UK Government that we will be participating in the Afghan relocation and assistance programme.
The scheme will help to provide safe and secure accommodation for Afghan refugees.
⬇
The brand new
@calonycymoedd
was officially opened today! It is one of six new schools built locally within the last five years thanks to the
@WelshGovernment
’s school modernisation programme.
⚠️ Due to the extreme weather conditions anticipated tomorrow, all Bridgend County Borough schools will be closed on Friday 18 February (moving to an online learning only model).
Further communication will be issued by schools this afternoon.
Having done many amazing things to improve the lives of disabled people, Simon Green from
@BridgendCDP
was a very deserving winner of the ‘Power of One’ category at our first ever ‘Inspired for Life’ awards. Well done Simon! 👏🏆
Schoolchildren in Porthcawl have started a new project aimed at reducing littering on local streets and beaches. Please support their desire to see their town being loved, not trashed.
Over 60 pupils rolled up their sleeves for
@givebloodwales
at
@BryntirionComp
third blood donation clinic today. An outstanding effort by both pupils and staff, well done all!
#GiveBlood
At
@CompPorthcawl
, the percentage of pupils achieving five A* - C grades improved to a fantastic 89%. ⬆️
A staggering 53 students gained 8 or more
#GCSEs
at A*/A! Congrats to you all! 👏
Say hello to Roly Patroly! 👋
Well done to six-year-old Thomas Lewis from
@CwmfelinP
on suggesting the winning name for our new camera car to improve
#roadsafety
outside schools.
A report to Cabinet next week will reveal that no sports club will need to pay increased charges for using pitches and pavilions thanks to a fantastic response to the council’s Community Asset Transfer programme.
Full details here ➡️
Do not travel to
#Porthcawl
in large numbers over the weekend of 25 – 27 September as the
#Elvis
Festival has been cancelled by the organisers due to the pandemic
❌Do not travel into Porthcawl in large numbers
❌Do not gather in groups
✅Think twice, stay safe, and stay home
Residents of
#Bridgend
County Borough are invited to join us in a toast to the Heroes of the Second World War on Friday 8 May at 3.00pm by raising a glass of your choice to celebrate VE Day and remember the enormous sacrifice and courage of people from all walks of life.
Thank you to all the local businesses across
#Bridgend
County Borough who have donated thousands of masks, gloves and overalls after our appeal for unwanted personal protective equipment (PPE)
#InThisTogether
👏
Read more here ➡️
The brand new
@PencoedPrimary
was officially opened today! It is one of six new schools built locally within the last five years thanks to the
@WelshGovernment
’s school modernisation programme.
We can’t wait to join the
#PrideCymru
celebrations this weekend as part of
#ProudCouncils
! The rainbow flag’s flying high at our Civic Offices in
#Bridgend
, and you may have noticed our new profile pic too 🏳️🌈
The Grand Pavilion in
#Porthcawl
has been successfully awarded £18m of funding for redevelopment work.
Secretary of State for Wales, David TC Davies, visited the pavilion this morning to see what work is planned to improve the iconic building.
🔗