25/01/10 - Echo Sparkles Campaign

HERE are the groups to benefit from Cardiff Round Table / Echo Sparklers £5,000 cash giveaway:

SOBIS Young People’s Club, Sully — IT equipment — £100.

Only Boys Allowed, Williamstown Primary School — Books — £400.

Grangetown Friendship Club — Running costs — £100.

15th Penarth Scout Group — Cooking and camping equipment — £250.

Friends of Willowbrook, Willowbrook Primary School, St Mellons — Playground equipment and restoration of school pond — £320.

Trelai Youth Centre — New TV for the tuck shop — £150.

Barnardo’s Cymru Caravan Holiday Scheme, Grangetown — Upkeep of scheme — £300.

Whitchurch Hockey Club — Goal keeping equipment — £150.

St Catherine’s Church, Llandaff — To asphalt a pathway around the church — £200.

New Start 4 Life, Bargoed — Running costs — £100.

Rhiwbina Football Club youth team — Help towards strip, equipment and floodlit training ground — £150.

Meadowbank School, Gabalfa — Sensory room — £300.

Children’s Community Nursing Service Saturday Club, Llandough Hospital — Paints, paper and crafts — £200.

1st Pentwyn Scout Group — Two dining shelters — £250.

Rainbow of Hope, homeless charity and drop-in centre for asylum seekers, Llanishen — New computer — £200.

Llanishen Methodist Community Hall — New disabled toilet — £200.

Pencoed Contact Group — Running costs — £100.

Wildmill Youth Club, Bridgend — New pool table and musical instruments — £100.

Cardiff Whales Swimming Club — Running costs — £200.

Al-Islah Saturday School, Grangetown — IT equipment — £100.

Hospital Radio Glamorgan, UHW — Equipment to broadcast live events — £400.

Senior Citizens’ Day Centre at Canton Uniting Church — Freezer — £250.

Splott Pump Track — Helmets for BMX racing, bikes, repair kits and transport — £150.

Serenity Female Voice Choir, Marshfield — Printed T-shirts with choir’s logo — £300.

Personal donation — From a woman to help an elderly neighbour — £30.

01/12/09 - Santas Sleigh

Round table will be once more helping push his Santas Sleigh aroud the streets of Cardiff. More details to come…

08/09/09 - Cardiff Round table Supports British Heart Foundation

Cardiff Round table donated £400 to Gareth Griffiths who is walking along the Great Wall of China to on order to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

05/05/09 - Bristol Volunteers for Development Abroad

Cardiff Round table donated £500 to BVDA. The money assisted Nia Griffiths, a psychology student at Bristol University to visit Uganda and help make a water tank and a well in a small village.

BVDA are a Bristol based charity that enables students from Bristol University to take part in small scale developments abroad. BVDA sends students to Uganda, Nepal, Rwanda and india to tackle to roots of problems in small communities and villages with the main aim of making all solutions sustainable.

For more infomration see: http://bristolvols.wordpress.com/

07/04/09 - Italian Earthquake disaster fund

Cardiff Round Table donated £500 towards a Round Table UK fund to aid those affected by the recent Earthquake.

In total Round table UK donated over £5500.

12/02/09 - Finley's Fund recieves £1000 donation

Last year Cardiff Round Table were pleased to donate £1000 to Finley's Fund. A thankyou card for the donation were recieved from Mark, Karen and Finley.

12/01/09 - Foundation housing given £300

Foundation housing were given £300 to purchase items their clients desperately needed that unfortunately the community care grants had denied them.

19/12/08 - Tai-hafan are given a warm and freindly Christmas party

Cardiff Round Table donated money to help Tai-hafan provide a very warm and friendly Christmas Party to 57 vulnerable women and their children. More information on the work of Tai-hafen is available on their website http://www.tai-hafan.co.uk/.

11/12/08 - Cardiff Round Table help Latch improve parents' stay.

Latch were given 8 flat screen televisions for their parents' accomodation rooms. For more information about latch see thier website http://www.latchwales.org/

08/12/08 - Cardiff Elves help Santa make sleigh

In preparation for his most hectic time of year some brave Round Table elves volunteered to help Santa make put together his sleigh. Stored most of the year in the cold "Big Yellow" cave, the time had come to get out the nuts and bolts and try to remember how to put the sleigh together.

In the coming weeks Santa will be travelling the streets of Cardiff giving away some early presents to good little boys and girls.

01/09/08 - Association of Childrens Hospitals

Cardiff Round Table donated £468 to the Association of Children's Hospices.

10/06/08 - Sponsor a School in India

Cardiff Round Table give £7000 to help build a School in India. Araswathi Vidyaniketan Mannur. A joint project of Calicut Round Table 69 & Cardiff 26, RTBI. Under Round Table India's National project "Freedom through Education". The school was inaugurated on 10th June 2008.