Rebecca Child for Oystermouth

Happy St David's Day!

I've been listening Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir (on Spotify) and thinking about 'keeping a welcome' in the hillside. Makes me think of those in Ukraine and that spirit of a kept welcome that's integral to Welsh culture which sadly will be sorely needed in the weeks to come.

I'm not restanding in May but some brilliant people who've been very supportive of me on are! Carrie, Richard and Martin all live locally and have been working to protect and improve Mumbles for years on top of their work as Community Councillors. Check out Mumbles Labour Candidates whether you're supportive, or undecided, to keep informed.

Our Christmas bus offer starts on Saturday 20 November and will continue throughout December. https://www.swansea.gov.uk/freebuses

Take the chance to meet your Neighbourhood policing team over a cuppa and chat about issues that matter to you.

Paned gyda phlismon. Manteisiwch are y cyfle I gwrdd achieve tim plismona lleol dros based, a chael sgwrs am y materion sydd o bwys I chi.

Ty Cwrw Mumbles and The Front Room - Tearoom and Bistro are hosting events as part of The Swansea Fringe. Enjoy a cuppa/pint with live music from some fantastic artists including ELERI ANGHARAD!

Mumbles Community Council would be delighted if you would join for coffee, cake and a chat!

Please pop in, to the Ostreme in Mumbles on Tuesday 19th October 12-2pm. It’s free!

I won't be there as it's my last day in my current job but hopefully can make it to the next one as a cake obsessee 😄🍰

Huge thank you to Plastic Free Mumbles, Swansea University Conservation and Ecology Society and Local Area Co-ordination Mayals, West Cross, Oystermouth and Newton. for this morning's clean up of the Castle grounds. 🏰😄

These pages are really worth following if you're intetested in local events and the environment! ♻️🏞

Come down to Oystermouth Castle Litter Pick! We'll be here a while and we really need your help!

🎪 is nearly here.

🎶 A day of music, food and fun!

WHERE: Oystermouth Castle 🏰
WHEN: Saturday 11th September
TICKETS: 🎟 £5 for adults, £4 for concessions, Under 14s are FREE.

🎫 Tickets available via: https://bit.ly/2UUqMQY

Great we have an Olympian championing the skatepark. Good luck in Tokyo James!!

Exactly 1 week till freestyle BMX makes a huge statement in the
It still feels unreal putting on the kit! So proud to represent the best country 🇬🇧

I’ll say it again…
I see all these skatepark struggling for business or planning in Swansea
Top 2 on my list is:
•Ramps Skatepark
•mumbles skatepark

I came from riding a small skatepark called Victoria park everyday just outside of the guildhall from a young age. It’s taking me around 14 years to get where I am, and most of it I owe to a small metal skatepark.
Imagine we the lights of ramps skatepark & the mumbles skatepark all the people enjoying having fun while progressing at the same time!
They could be where I am in half the amount of years!! Heading to the next OLYMPICS!!

I’ve taking a few professionals over the years to Victoria park and they have just laughed.
Swansea needs a proper skatepark! Indoor or outdoor!


Skate Park Mumbles

Great news! And fantastic for the environment/parking issues in Mumbles. 🌿🚐

Bus travel in Swansea will be free for 4 days each week (Fri – Mon) throughout August
https://www.swansea.gov.uk/article/63871/Free-bus-travel-for-everyone-in-Swansea

Please tell us what you think about this!

Have your say…
We would like to hear your views on the future of Mumbles Tennis Courts. Mumbles Community Council propose to ask Swansea City Council to transfer ownership of the two remaining tennis courts in Mumbles. We hope to invest in the facilities to be retained either as tennis courts or other sporting facilities.

Please complete our short survey using the link below.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/N8G9DX9
Closing date Friday 2nd July

I'm volunteering with an organisation making and sending emergency equipment to India using 3D printers. They printed 200,000 face shields for NHS staff last year 💙 Sharing here in case anyone wants to get involved with either printing or helping later on with the sterilising and packing. You can do it from home so give them a follow!

3D Crowd isn’t about a single product, it’s a movement.
A diverse community across the whole product lifecycle able to rapidly design, prototype, test, develop and distribute products at the time of need without upfront capital.
3D Crowd avoids the dependencies on the public and private sectors to ensure help is delivered at pace.
During 2020 we delivered over 385,000 pieces of PPE within the UK and beyond. We are bringing this experience to bear on our new projects and if you’d like to be part of our team or offer any other kind of support please comment on the post and we’ll get in touch with you!

This is brilliant! The RNLI Lifeguards Swansea and Community Safety volunteers from The Mumbles Lifeboat RNLI have been giving safety talks to groups who go sea dipping! There's been a huge increase in this in all seasons so it's fantastic there are volunteers proactively meeting with groups. I'm still not brave enough to try it and it's June 😂

I know I'm late with this but it's such a lovely story from the other side of Swansea. What happened was really awful, but reading this made proud of the wonderful people who definitely make up the majority of our city 🧡

Dad whose car was torched in Swansea riots given free motor Swansea man Ben Wheel saw Adam Romain's plight on the news and knew he had to help

Never knew we have the second highest rise and fall of tide anywhere in the world.
Follow The Mumbles Lifeboat RNLI on Facebook and you'll see how busy our volunteer lifeboat team are.

At 10:50 last night our voluntary crew were tasked by UK Coastguard at Milford Haven to assist 2 people cut off by the tide at the Middle Island.
They were taken safe and sound back to the inshore lifeboat station.
Lifeboat Crew member Isobel Ace said ‘We have the second highest rise and fall of tide in the World. We ask anyone venturing near the sea to always check tides and a safe route back from where you’re going. There’s lots of useful information at RNLI.ORG.UK

Have your say! Swansea Council are looking at regeneration of the sea wall area. Let them know what you think and let me know too! Want to make sure I know people's ideas before I feed in myself. Deadline is June 7th so do it now!

Important update from MSA.

The campaign for the redevelopment and improvement has been a long and often arduous process. Making videos, starting petitions, pushing the whole idea on social media, interviews with the press and meetings, meetings and more meetings.

All this couldn’t have been done without the enthusiasm and full backing of the Mumbles Community Council who had in the beginning no idea of what a skatepark would even look like. They just knew that there was huge interest and demand for one amongst local children and adults alike.

As a community project local skaters set up the Mumbles Skatepark Association which has been working tirelessly to raise awareness and funds and to keep the skatepark in the public eye and help maintain it when it is built.

Of course there has been some opposition to the plan but, as in all new things, this opposition is often driven by fear of change. This change as we have strived to communicate is a very positive one. The current facility is over 20 years old and, although it is much loved by the skate community, it is tired and limited in terms of what it offers the modern skateboarder. The new park will be all inclusive for every ability, professionally designed and built by a company who have worked with local skaters since the beginning of planning. In addition, and very importantly, it will be landscaped into the environment not adversely impact the existing green space and The skatepark will be partially sunken into the ground at the current site and will have no detrimental visual impact on views across the bay.

Recent events have somewhat overtaken our slow but relentless progress. Everything was in place to begin after the City Council handed over the land to Mumbles in order for the project to commence. Unfortunately a handful of those opposing the upgrade of our facility have stalled the whole process by initiating a judicial review of the council’s process in the land transfer. This is a last ditch attempt to stop our community project and has caused something of a storm along Mumbles seafront.

One of the opposition unwisely chose to confront skaters at the ramp and was filmed doing so which has set about a chain of events around the project. This has attracted press interest and the interest of many who have never even thought of skateboarding before.

This on the whole isn’t a bad thing and the more people genuinely interested and taking up skateboarding the better. If it wasn’t for such outside interest then this project wouldn’t be happening at all as many supporters and drivers of the plan had no personal interest in skating before. The petition we organised has gone through the roof, the BBC came down to the ramp for a piece and the national press has reported on the events.

The irony is that the plan for the park was in part to promote healthy lifestyles and sustainable transport for the community and throughout the main opposition has focused on the road and car parking. Now the main focus seems to be second hand car sales, people with grievances about their cars, rival car salesmen and the sounding of car horns. A rival company even sent someone dressed as a frog with a pallet of pop and sweets down to the ramp as a promotion campaign.

Things are moving fast and far away from our original ideals and hopes. These people are jumping on our project and we need to be cautious of their motives or things may quickly be taken out of our hands and everybody’s hard work may be for nothing.

Most importantly enjoy the free skate facility we already have and hope that we get our upgraded facility as soon as possible. But please do this with a level head and in the same way everyone who has already faced intimidation has and we will get our hard earned skatepark.

Lovely day down at the ramp. The Skatepark is a Mumbles Community Council project that's taken years to get so close. Speaking to the families here and seeing the wait to use the ramp, I'm hoping the Skatepark is not delayed any longer.

Great to have the Lido back for the bank holiday weekend 🌊😃

Our popular Blackpill Lido re-opens for the summer season this Bank Holiday weekend. Be sure to enjoy yourselves but do keep your distance from others. There’ll be signs around and staff to help out. Have a great time!

Safety concerns have been raised with me about the behaviour towards some young people at the current skate ramp. If you are heading down to the ramp this Saturday there will be a police presence so everyone should be able to skate safely.

We won! 942 votes to 922. Thank you so much to everyone that voted, and everyone who helped me campaign. We've never won Oystermouth first past the post before. I'm incredibly happy.

Vote Rebecca and then also vote Rebecca 😄

The Ostreme Centre has a queue but all social distanced and moving quickly!! Just under an hour left to vote now but if you're in the queue you can by 10pm you can vote!

I've been out in Mumbles this evening where people are queuing to vote! There's an hour until the polls close! So if you haven't already, go vote!

If you've lost your poll card or you haven't returned your postal ballot you can still vote! Just head to the polling station (with your postal vote if you have one) and the staff will be able to help you!

Two things come up on the doorstep you might not expect. My age (28 if you're interested) and the amount of ballots people are going to have to fill in today.

In Oystermouth there are at least 4 ballots today. Each ballot has written on it how you fill it in and you can ask staff if unsure. The ballots and candidates I'm backing for each are:
1. Oystermouth Ward Community Council
(Rebecca Child - well of course!)
2. Gower Constituency Senedd
(Rebecca Evans)
3. Regional List Senedd
(Labour)
4. Police and Crime Commissioner
(Alun Michael - BUT you can also put your second preference)

Hope that helps. Polls are open until 10pm and polling staff are on hand if you have any questions.

I've been out today up Waverly drive (stunning views of the castle and right across Mumbles) and all around Newton Road. The weather has been very, very interesting ☀️🌧🌬⛅

Did you know the First Minister used to live in Oystermouth?🏠

I've met with our Senedd Member Rebecca Evans For Gower, Tonia Antoniazzi MP and even with our First Minister Mark Drakeford to talk with local residents and businesses and discuss what we can to to protect and improve our area.

We have a lot of representatives passionate about this place and as someone who's grown up here, it would be a real privilege to join them in representing Oystermouth.

This weekend I was out speaking with residents and had loads of support so thank you! ☺

Finished the day by trying new restaurant The Ponderosa and having a pint from Elwyn. Ate the food too quickly for a picture 😅 Sitting in the sunshine under the falling petals of a cherry blossom tree. Got to love Mumbles ❤

I am delighted the market will be coming back! It's after the election too so will get to have a lovely leisurely stroll around! 🛍️

It's been a busy morning! Spoken to residents on the phone, replied to all the emails I've had and arranged for someone with sight issues to have assistance from the council completing their postal ballot.