THE latest community news from Llanidloes

Gin-tage tea party

A MARIE Curie fund-raiser, for Heather Pugh’s Rockies Trek Challenge 2019, takes place at The Whistling Badger on Saturday, 18 August, at 3pm.

Tickets are £10 including sandwiches, scones, cakes, biscuits, and lots of gin or tea with 50 per cent from every ticket sold going to charity.

Kelly’s Kat Rescue

KELLY’S Kat Rescue is holding a coffee morning at the Old Mill on Saturday, 1 September, 10am - 1pm.

Free entry with face painting, best cat costume under 8s and under 12s, tombola, cake stalls and raffle.

Gardening club

LLANIDLOES and District Gardening Club will hold its members’ Flower and Vegetable Show at the community centre on Saturday, 25 August, at 2pm. Admission is free. There will be a raffle and refreshments.

Scarecrow Festival

THE Upper Severn Scarecrow Festival raised £2,577.24 for Wales Air Ambulance.

Cae Felyn Open Garden, Old Hall, was run over the same weekend and raised a further £151.30 for the charity.

Llanidlloes

Summer exhibition

THE summer exhibition by The Quilt Association has got off to a flying start at the Minerva Arts Centre.

During the first week of the exhibition, called ‘Welsh Connections/Cysylltiadau Cymraeg’, there have already been hundreds of visitors from the local area and from all over the world.

Of particular interest this year are the locally made quilts, which have recently been donated to the Quilt Association’s collection of antique quilts.

These include, firstly, the Benjamin Davies Quilt, a flannel patchwork quilt made by Benjamin Davies of Ffynongarreg, Bwlch y Sarnau.

He was the son of William and Sarah Davies and the quilt was donated by a family member in 2017.

Also on show is the Glyn Farm Quilt, a patchwork quilt made near Llanidloes and donated in 2018 by a descendant of the Thomas family who lived at Glyn Farm during the 19th Century.

Also featured this year are quilts by contemporary textile artists Bethan Ash, Deborah O’Hare and members of the Cwilt Cymru group.

All of these live and work in Wales, hence the title of the exhibition.

The exhibition runs from Tuesday to Saturday until 8 September from 10.30am until 4.30pm.

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