How to celebrate? 

Share your pictures with us and show us why you’re proud to be Welsh!

For St David’s Day we have organised a challenge for you!!

The challenge is to share a picture or video which makes you proud to be Welsh, in order to show your pride in our amazing language, traditions, food and our beautiful country.

We invite you to take part in order to raise awareness of our special day, St David’s Day.

Your picture or video can be of a special place in Wales that you love, your favourite welsh food, or even a ‘selfie’ wearing a daffodil or a leek.

Share your pictures with us on our Facebook and Twitter pages and show us why your proud to be Welsh on St David’s Day.

Call and see us at Pencoed a Bridgend College!

We will be holding a stall with the Urdd at Pencoed College on the 29th of January and Bridgend Colleg on the 1st and 2nd of March. Come and see us!

Menter Bro Ogwr is hoping to work with you the students and establish a working group or society. The purpose of the group will be to organise activities and events that will give you the opportunity to socialise with other Welsh speakers and use your Welsh in the college. You will have the opportunity to fill in our questionnaire for a chance to win a prize each day!

Come and see Menter Bro Ogwr and Sam Tân at Sainsbury’s and compete in the colouring competition!

Sainsbury’s is running a special competition again for St David’s Day this year – a special colouring competition! You can collect the colouring pages from Sainsbury’s, Menter Bro Ogwr Officers and Siop yr Hen Bont. Sainsbury’s will be offering a prize for the winner.

Did you celebrate Saint Dwynwen’s Day this year? At Menter Bro Ogwr we celebrated in our Siop Siarad, Youth Club and at a special event at Bryngarw Park.

A lot of fun was had trying to guess the famous Welsh in our Welsh lonely hearts column in the Siop Siarad as well as a general discussion about Love. On Monday, there was a ‘Mr and Mrs’ style competition where friends were able to show off how well they really knew each other.

On Saturday, the 23rd of January, we held an event in partnership with Mudiad Meithrin, Tyfu and Bryngarw Park by offering Arts and Crafts activities, information stalls and a stall by Siop yr Hen Bont Welsh shop in the visitor centre. The family event was a great success with a number of people having a go at making a lovespoon out of clay and more!

Thanks to everyone who came to the events and hope you all had a lovely Saint Dwynwen’s day!

On Thursday, October 15th the third Shwmae Su’mae Day was held, and once again Menter Bro Ogwr and many others across the country were busy encouraging people to greet everyone with “Shwmae” neu “Su’mae”.

This year, Menter Bro Ogwr took Sali Mali to Porthcawl, Sainsbury’s Sarn and Bridgend to greet people and spread the word about the day. Sali Mali met a number of lovely people on her travels and had some very nice photographs taken with them. You can see the photographs on Menter Bro Ogwr’s Facebook page (@menterbroogwr) and some on our website and on Twitter too.  We also asked you to your photographs of you celebrating Shwmae Day on our Facebook and Twitter pages for a chance to win a voucher for Siop yr Hen Bont. The winning photograph will be selected next week.

Menter Bro Ogwr would like to say thank you to the Grand Pavilion in Porthcawl for the welcome and for Sali Mali’s personal dressing room and to Sainsbury’s Sarn for the welcome too. We would also like to thank Aberkenfig Squadron, Tyfu gyda’r Gymraeg – Penybont, Bridgend Libraries, Cafe Mimis, The Bridge, Bridgend College, YellowWales, BAVO, Cylch Meithrin Plant Bach Sarn, Noddfa Community Project, Siop Siarad Penybont and everyone else that have contributed their fabulous photos!

It’s been wonderful to see everyone embracing this national day. Menter Bro Ogwr can’t wait for the next Shwmae Su’mae Day next year!

Click on the link to see our Siop Siarad group saying Shwmae!

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