News

Unfortunately, due to the forecast for high winds and rain on Friday night, the annual Christmas Lights across Radyr and Morganstown has been cancelled.
The organisers are disappointed to have had to take this decision for the second year in a row on the grounds of event safety and are actively seeking options for an alternative provision for future years to ensure that the 2026 event can happen in some form whatever the weather.

We are hopeful that Santa will still be able to make a visit on his sleigh next Friday (12 December 2025).

View full list of planned Christmas Events across Radyr & Morganstown for 2025

Following discussions with ward members, the Radyr & Morganstown Community Council and our County Councillors, officers of Cardiff Council have secured additional Bus Network Grant funding from the South East Wales Regional Bus Funding Group. In addition, Section 106 contributions from the Clos Parc Radyr development will be allocated to support improvements to bus services to Radyr, Morganstown and Pentyrch.

Key changes effective from 4 January 2026

• Increased frequency: Services to Radyr will operate every 30 minutes for the net two years.
• New Service: Route 64 will provide an hourly service to Radyr and Morganstown (via Ffordd Treforgan)
• Extended Service: Route 63 will now run to Pentyrch Monday – Saturday, aligning with its Sunday route for consistent seven-day coverage.
• Existing Service: Route 136 will continue hourly between Pentyrch and Cardiff via Whitchurch

The Section 106 funding is intended to boost passenger numbers so that, after two years when this funding support expires, services can be sustained through fair revenue.

Updated timetables

Route maps and outline timetables have been issued by Council Officers but not yet shared with the Web Team. Once these become more widely available we will link to them from here.

Have you had your copy of the Autumn edition of the Radyr Chain?

Chan 277 is now out and the Editorial Board believe that their network of nearly 100 deliverers have distributed this 48 page magazine to over 3,000 houses across Radyr & Morganstown.

If you live in Radyr or Morganstown and have not yet recieved your copy then please contact Chain@radyr.org.uk so that the team can ensure that our network of deliverers is covering every house within the Ward.

In the mean time, if you would like a copy additional copies are available from the Radyr Hub (formerly Library) on Park Road or you can view our online edition.

Cardiff Council’s major annual resident survey, Ask Cardiff, is live.  It looks at topics such as Your Neighbourhood, Safety, Cost of Living, Accessing Services, the Environment, Housing, and Wellbeing.

It runs through to 30^th November 2025, and is in English, Welsh, Arabic, Bangla and Somali.

Responses are used to make many decisions across the Council, so it is important everyone has the chance to share their experience, say what is important to them, and say what they want the Council to prioritise. There is also a chance to win a prize (there are ten £50 ‘FOR Cardiff’ vouchers).

Link: https://online1.snapsurveys.com/HoliCaerdydd2025AskCardiff

Paper copies are available in Hubs/libraries, and can be returned using the ‘Freepost CRC’ envelopes supplied, or in the blue ballot box in each Hub.

Christmas is coming and there is lots to look forward to across Radyr & Morganstown. This page will gradually be updated as details of Christmas events are released/amended.

CANCELLED – Christmas Lights across Radyr and Morganstown

The Christmas Lights across Radyr and Morganstown event will be held on Friday 5 December 2025.

Starting with the stalls on Station Road from around 18.30 or further away at 18:00 in Granny Park (Morganstown) where pupils from Gwaelod y Garth will be singing then at 18:15 Radyr Comp invite you to sing with them in the Sidings before that tree is lit.

There will be singing of carols around the large tree in Windsor Gardens (opposite Station Road) with Bryn Deri and Radyr Primary Schools getting everyone going. Santa will arrive and will lead a countdown to light the large Tree in Windsor Gardens at 19:00.

Santa will then stop in his sleigh on Station Road itself for those large and small to say hello to him near the Co-op.

Also, from around 6:30pm, we should be ready in Station Road with stalls selling all sorts of goodies – crafts, gifts, jewellery and much more. Our usual burgers, hot dogs and mulled wine will be available at the RMA stalls. Most of the shops will also be open and joining in the fun, including Cicchetti, Slice, and The Radyr Tap, so you will be able to do some shopping and even stay for a meal.

St John Ambulance Cymru, will finish their year as the RMA’s chosen charity with a stall and be collecting with buckets during the evening. Please give generously.

Do come along and enjoy the festivities. It is a lovely way to start the Christmas Season and entrance is free.

Christmas Singalong with Goldies

Join the team from Goldies at the New School Rooms (next to Christ Church) on Friday 5 December from 2pm until 3pm for an hour of sing along to Christmas hits from the 70s to the present day. Enjoy the singing, a cuppa and a chat.

Christmas jumpers etc. encouraged.

£3 charity donation includes refreshments.

Santa’s tour of Radyr & Morganstown

Santa and his Sleigh have been invited by the Radyr & Morganstown Community Council. The sleigh will tour Radyr & Morganstown on Friday 12 December 2025.

Full route and anticipated timings for Santa’s tour are now available – please note all published timings are only approximate.

To assist with Road Safety please do not attempt to approach Santa when he is travelling in his sleigh but he will be accompanied by some elves collecting for the RMA Charity for 2025 – St John Ambulance Cymru.

Panto – The Little Mermaid

The fin-tastic family panto, swimming to Morganstown Village Hall on Wednesday 17 December at 6pm.

Tickets cost £2 and can be purchased in MGY, Station Road or from the Festival website https://www.rmfestival.org.uk/event/little-mermaid/.

Organised by Radyr & Morganstown Community Council.

Christmas Services

Both Radyr Methodist Church and Christ Church Radyr will be holding a series of Advent and Christmas Services. 

Full list of Christmas Services across the Garth Ministry Area (of which Christ Church is a part) can be seen on their website: https://GarthMA.wales/christmas

Links to full list of Advent and Christmas Services to be added in due course.

Christmas Rubbish Collections

Dates for Rubbish collections around Christmas and New Year expect to remain unchanged from our usual Tuesday pattern but the Web Team have not yet seen confirmation of this.

We are aware that, whilst green garden waste collections will generally continue throughout the Winter, there will be a 2 week suspenension of these collections around Christmas to free up staff to deal with the larger than usual quantities of recyclable materials instead.

The Council have warned that there will not be a free Christmas Tree collection this winter. Households are asked to consider how they will responsibly dispose of any real Christmas Trees after the festive period.

The Council are also warning that no wrapping paper or Christmas Cards will be collected as recycling due to the poor fibre quality and high volumes of ink involved in these products. They must all be disposed of within your normal general waste (black bin) collections.

Are you interested in what your County Councillors are doing to represent you? Read their latest reports.

Radyr and Morganstown Friends of Tenovus have been recognized for their 40 years of fundraising in the community.

This came about at a Tenovus Cancer Care volunteer award ceremony at The Parkgate Hotel on 15 July. The group was up against 4 other candidates for the group award and were delighted if slightly surprised to come out winners. Then being handed a beautiful inscribed glass plaque. We have now been put forward for a Cardiff volunteer award.

We have managed to raise an outstanding amount of nearly £400,000 in our 40 years with the help and support of the community of Radyr and Morganstown, which we are very grateful for and highly appreciate.

To celebrate 40 years of fundraising the Radyr and Morganstown Friends of Tenovus are holding an Anniversary Dinner at Radyr Golf Club featuring Rupert Moon and Jamie Pugh on Friday 17 October from 1900.

Then there is their regular coffee morning in aid of Tenovus Cancer Care at Radyr Golf Club on Friday 24 October from 10:30

Read more about the work of this local group at https://radyr.org.uk/clubs/tenovus

On Tuesday the RMA were pleased to be able to present their oversized cheque for £6,000 to representatives of the Radyr Division of St John Ambulance Cymru. This represents the total raised through the Radyr & Morganstown Festival 2025.However, the RMAs partnership with St John Ambulance Cymru continues through their remaining events until the end of the year.

St John Ambulance Cymru’s Save a Life September campaign is back, providing people with different ways to learn lifesaving first aid skills over the next month.

The Save a Life September campaign takes place each year, aiming to spread first aid knowledge with as many people as possible across social media and through free first aid demonstrations.

In Wales, the survival rate following an out of hospital cardiac arrest is less than 5%, compared to England at 10% and Scotland at 9%*.

St John Ambulance Cymru are aiming to change that by helping members of the public learn the simple skills that can help save a life if an emergency happens near them.

This year St John Ambulance Cymru are focusing on the key themes of CPR and defibrillator use, child and infant first aid, falls awareness and mental health first aid.

Each week the charity will be sharing key first aid advice with the public, as well as arranging free demonstrations in communities across Wales.

 “Here at St John Ambulance Cymru we are passionate about creating more lifesavers in Wales and Save a Life September is just one of the many ways we’re doing that”

commented Darren Murray, Head of Community Operations at the charity.

 “First aid can save lives and we want more people across the country to have the confidence to act quickly in an emergency.”

“Our St John Ambulance Cymru people can equip you with the skills required to support your friend, family or work colleague just in case the worst happens.”

Radyr Division of St John Ambulance Cymru are holding an open evening a the Old Church Rooms on Tuesday 16 September from 19:30. All are welcome for free training in CPR and a demonstration of how to use an AED.

You can find out more on how you can get involved in Save a Life September by visiting www.sjacymru.org.uk/save-a-life-september today.

Donate to St John Ambulance Cymru today through our JustGiving page: https://justgiving.com/page/rma-2025

Have you had your copy of the Summer edition of the Radyr Chain?

Chan 276 has now been out a few weeks and the Editorial Board believe that their network of nearly 100 deliverers have distributed this 48 page magazine to over 3,000 houses across Radyr & Morganstown.

If you live in Radyr or Morganstown and have not yet recieved your copy then please contact Chain@radyr.org.uk so that the team can ensure that our network of deliverers is covering every house within the Ward.

In the mean time, if you would like a copy additional copies are available from the Radyr Hub (formerly Library) on Park Road or you can view our online edition.

Are you interested in what your County Councillors are doing to represent you? Read their latest reports.

Tickets are now available for all events in the Radyr & Morganstown Festival 2025.

Once again a full programme of events has been pulled together across the Festival fortnight.

Starting with the popular Festival Fete on the fields at Radyr Primary School which is free to attend, the middle weekend hosts Party in the Park again on the school fields and a closing concert delivered by Côr Y Gleision, a mixed choir from Cardiff, competed in the National Eisteddfod 2024, where eight choirs competed on the Pavilion stage in a competition organised by Cymdeithas Eisteddfod Cymru and came third.

In between there are a range of events for all the family including our popular Wine and Cheese night and a special bilingual children’s event in the Library

All of this is in support of the RMA’s chosen charity for 2025, St John Ambulance Cymru.

View full list of events on Festival website

Are you interested in what your County Councillors are doing to represent you? Read their latest reports.

Simon Gilbert, Head of Planning for Cardiff Council, spoke about Cardiff’s Replacement Local Development Plan and the consultation process at a well-attended joint R&MCC/RMLDG meeting on 10th March.  He confirmed that the current proposals mean there will be no major direct impact on the R&M Community beyond the continued development of Plasdŵr, and we will largely be protected by a ‘Green Wedge’ across the top of Cardiff.  Peter Fortune and Angela Gray, of the R&M Local Development Group, provided further background information.

There were a number of questions but all agreed that this was good news for R&M. However, the Plan is now out for public consultation and there could still be opposition to some of the proposals. Mr Gilbert therefore stressed the importance of people submitting comments, on any aspect of the plan.

For details of the Plan and how to respond to the consultation exercise, which finishes on 15th April, please go to the RMLDG website.

A map of the Proposals is available to view in Radyr Hub.

The R&M Community Council and the R&M Local Development Group have organised a meeting to discuss Cardiff’s Replacement Local Development Plan on Monday 10^th March at 7.30pm in the New Schoolrooms (next to Christ Church on Heol Isaf). It will give everyone an opportunity to understand the Plan and the implications to our Community. Further details are available on the RMLDG website.

Cardiff’s Head of Planning, Simon Gilbert, will be there to present the Plan and answer questions.

Thank you to everyone who supported the Christmas collection of food and financial donations organised by Radyr Methodist Church which were passed to Cardiff Foodbank. The first collection of 2025 will be on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 February.

Please deliver donations on Saturday 15 February to any of the following addresses between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

• 30 Pentwyn, Radyr CF15 8RE,
• 20 Walnut Tree Close, Radyr CF15 8SX,
• 13 Heol Roald Dahl, Radyr CF15 8GT,

Donations will also be accepted at the morning service at Radyr Methodist Church at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday 16 February.

Most needed items (as of 30/01/2025):

• Cooking sauce in jars
• Custard
• Long-life juice
• Soup
• Sponge puddings
• Tinned fruit, meat, tomatoes and vegetables
• Washing powder

The foodbank has plenty of baked beans, cereal, nappies, pasta, squash

The foodbank is unable to accept fresh, home-made or perishable food.

Every donation, of whatever amount, is appreciated so please consider whether you can help. Thank you so much.

Are you interested in what your County Councillors are doing to represent you? Read their latest reports.

Unfortunately, due to winds and heavy rain forecast for the duration of the event, the organising committee have taken the difficult decision to cancel Friday’s planned Turning on the Christmas Lights across Radyr & Morganstown. Let’s hope next year the weather is kinder.

It has now been arranged for the trees to be on from this evening with a little less ceremony

Details of other local Christmas events including the Christmas Singalong with Goldies, Santa’s Tour of Radyr and Morganstown and the Christmas Church Services are all still published on our dedicated Christmas Events page.

Cardiff Council have also announced that Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) will close tomorrow (Saturday 8 December) due to the Red weather warning for wind. They should re-open as normal on Sunday. If you have booked a visit for Saturday, the council will be in contact to rearrange your booking.

All Cardiff Hubs and Libraries will also be closed on Saturday 7 December due to the adverse weather conditions. For emergency advice call 029 2087 1071. For homeless support during this bad weather please call 029 2087 3141.

#StormDarragh

3,500 physical copies have arrived and are now making their way through the amazing network of volunteer distributors and deliverers “Free to every home in Radyr and Morganstown”. These will be delivered over the next few days.

While you wait to get your hands on a physical copy from your usual source, the new Editorial Board have brought out a simultaneous Digital Edition with all the same content: https://radyr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Chain-274.pdf (PDF, 8MB)

When talking about putting the Radyr Chain together Angharad, one of the members of the new Editorial Board, said:

We can’t make any Chain, but particularly not a bumper 44 page edition, without your contributions. Thank you to all of our contributors for the information and stories of local interest that you have provided. We hope you like what we’ve done with the Chain as we have taken over from the previous “Chain Gang” and work out our role in putting the paper together.

This is the first edition to be produced by the new Editorial Board who stepped at a public meeting in September after the previous volunteer team indicated their intention to step away from the paper having served for a significant number of years.

The new Editorial Board are ready to hear feedback on their first edition and to recieve submissions for Chain 275. Contributions are to be them by e-mail to chain@radyr.org.uk by 15 February 2025 for a mid March 2025 publication date. If you would like to talk about a possible contribution or develop an idea with them, one of the team would be very happy to have a conversation with any potential contributors.

Thank you to all who came out to remember the fallen at Radyr War Memorial last Sunday (10 November) for our traditional Act of Remembrance.

The Act of Remembrance was led by Rev’d Mary Evans and many local groups were represented in both the procession from Christ Church and the assembled gathering.

Thanks also to the Melingriffith Band for leading the singing of the anthems.

Remembrance Sunday 2024

View this gallery on Flickr

Christmas is coming and there is lots to look forward to across Radyr & Morganstown. Whilst it is still early, this page will gradually be updated as details of Christmas events are released.

Christmas Lights across Radyr and Morganstown

Update 05/12/2024 – Unfortunately the weather forecast is now against us and so the organising committee have decided to cancel tomorrow’s Christmas Lights across Radyr & Morganstown Event. However, there is still plenty of Christmas fun to be had over the next few weeks.

The Christmas Lights across Radyr and Morganstown event will be held on Friday 6 December 2024.

Starting with the stalls on Station Road from around 18.30 or further away at 18:05 in Granny Park (Morganstown) where pupils from Gwaelod y Garth will be singing then at 18:20 Radyr Comp invite you to sing with them before that tree is lit.

There will be singing of carols around the large tree in Windsor Gardens (opposite Station Road) from 18:55 with Bryn Deri and Radyr Primary Schools getting everyone going. Santa will arrive and, alongside the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, will lead a countdown to light the large Tree in Windsor Gardens at 19:00.

Santa will then stop in his sleigh on Station Road itself for those large and small to say hello to him near the Co-op.

Also, from around 6:30pm, we should be ready in Station Road with stalls selling all sorts of goodies – crafts, gifts, jewellery and much more. Our usual burgers, hot dogs and mulled wine will be available at the RMA stalls. Most of the shops will also be open and joining in the fun, including Cicchetti, Slice and The Radyr Tap, so you will be able to do some shopping and even stay for a meal.

Alzheimer’s Society Cymru, will finish their year as the RMA’s chosen charity with a stall and be collecting with buckets during the evening. Please give generously.

Do come along and enjoy the festivities. It is a lovely way to start the Christmas Season and entrance is free.

Christmas Singalong with Goldies

Join the team from Goldies at the New School Rooms (next to Christ Church) on Friday 6 December from 2pm until 3pm for an hour of sing along to Christmas hits from the 70s to the present day. Enjoy the singing, a cuppa and a chat.

Christmas jumpers etc. encouraged.

£3 charity donation includes refreshments.

Santa’s tour of Radyr & Morganstown

Santa and his Sleigh have been invited by the Radyr & Morganstown Community Council. The sleigh will tour Radyr & Morganstown on Friday 13 December 2024.

Full route and anticipated timings for Santa’s tour are now available – please note all published timings are only approximate.

To assist with Road Safety please do not attempt to approach Santa when he is travelling in his sleigh but he will be accompanied by some elves collecting for the RMA Charity for 2024 – Alzheimer’s Society Cymru.

Christmas Services

Both Radyr Methodist Church and Christ Church Radyr will be holding a series of Advent and Christmas Services. 

Details of Advent and Christmas services across the Garth Ministry Area are now available on their website including the traditional Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday 22 December at 18:00.

Full schedule for Radyr Methodist Church is also available on their pages including the Empty Chair Service on Sunday 15 December at 16:00.

Christmas Rubbish Collections

Dates for Rubbish collections around Christmas and New Year have now been confirmed by Cardiff Council as unchanged from our usual Tuesday pattern.

The Council have warned that there will not be a free Christmas Tree collection this winter. Households are asked to consider how they will responsibly dispose of any real Christmas Trees after the festive period.

The Council are also warning that no wrapping paper or Christmas Cards will be collected as recycling due to the poor fibre quality and high volumes of ink involved in these products. They must all be disposed of within your normal general waste (black bin) collections.