ALL YOU NEED IS Residents, Team and Melanie and Jamie at Shire Hall


HUGS!


CARDIFF care homes Ty Enfys in Pentwyn, Shire Hall in Cardiff Bay, Regency House in Ely and Greenhill Manor Care Home in Merthyr Tydfil shared the love with residents, team members and relatives on their celebration of Hug Day.


Residents and visitors to the residential, dementia and nursing care homes gathered to hug it out at the care provider’s annual, company-wide event, which encourages physical interaction and celebrates the comfort that a simple hug can bring.


All four homes had an action-packed day filled with costumes, plenty of entertainment and sweet treats prepared for residents, team members and guests to the homes to enjoy.


Regency House celebrated with a mobile photobooth, costumes and a competition for Best Hug of the Day! Ty Enfys marked the occasion with a teddy bears picnic and a concert from local choir, Lost Chord. At Shire Hall, the home organised for singing duo and


A unique video project commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Wales’s most famous Great War poet, Ellis Humphrey Evans, is set to be beamed onto the National Library of Wales building in the week of Armistice Day after receiving backing from the ScottishPower Foundation.


Snowdonia shepherd Evans - better known by his bardic name of Hedd Wyn (Welsh for ‘Blessed Peace’) - was killed on the opening day of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, days after being sent to the front line as a conscript.


Yr Arwr (The Hero), an epic poem the reluctant soldier had finished just before his death, posthumously won him the Bardic Chair at the National Eisteddfod in 1917. When the judges of the Chair competition, Welsh literature’s highest honour, proclaimed the


winner’s name at the Eisteddfod ceremony, no one


stood. Having asked three times for him to identify himself and come forward to take up his seat of honour, they were met with no reply.


The unsuspecting crowd - including Welsh-born Prime Minister and architect of conscription, David Lloyd George - initially had to be


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told that Hedd Wyn had in fact died in battle on the fields of Flanders weeks beforehand, before being able to fulfil his life’s ambition.


The Bardic Chair was instead veiled


under a black sheet


and from that moment onwards the 1917 Eisteddfod would become known as the


“Eisteddfod y Gadair Ddu” (“The Eisteddfod of the Black Chair”). During the week following the Eisteddfod the chair was sent to Hedd Wyn’s grieving family at their farm, Yr Ysgwrn, in Trawsfynydd, Snowdonia where it is still on display today,


The National Library of


Britain’s Got Talent 2016 finalists Melanie and Jamie Gilpin to sing some classic hits to residents and guests. At Greenhill Manor, the home threw a 1950’s celebration, with the home’s café and dining rooms transformed into traditional American diners with fries and shakes offered for residents to enjoy. Team members joined in on the fun by dressing up in their best 1950’s-inspired costumes and inviting residents, team members and visitors to join a group hug. The day’s festivities concluded with a rock ‘n’ roll band who performed an array of jive songs for residents and guests. Lifestyle Assistant at Ty Enfys Care Home, Hannah Russell said: “We had a fantastic day, laughter, fun and hugs are so vital for anyone’s quality of life and we always


Resident, Bill with Ted the therapy dog and Ted the teddy bear for Ty Enfys


Members of the Greenhill Manor family in a group hug


thoroughly enjoy sharing and celebrating this on Hug Day!” For further information please visit www.hallmarkcarehomes.co.uk


A Group hug at Regency House


War Poet Hedd Wyn to be remembered


Wales and the Snowdonia National Park Authority, which maintains Hedd Wyn’s family farm as a museum, both hold extensive collections and have collaborated in an ambitious and far-reaching year-long education outreach programme throughout 2017 bringing the poet’s story and his work to life for a new generation.


Their work, supported by the ScottishPower Foundation, has included delivering 26 workshops to over 800 schoolchildren and adults, and the distribution of 3000 copies of a specially-created booklet on Hedd Wyn’s legacy to primary and secondary schools across Wales.


The initiative will culminate on November 9 - two days before Remembrance Day - when a video installation involving children from Hedd Wyn’s native village will be beamed on to the imposing facade of The National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth.


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