How to get there:     It is easy to get into Perth by train from the suburbs. Local bus routes connect up with train services if you do not want to leave your car at your local train station. If you want to check on bus and train times, contact TransPerth for information. Contact details for TransPerth are: Tel: 13 1608 The Community Centre is located upstairs at the Perth Central Railway Station, Wellington Street. Come up the escalator from the Station and turn left for the Community Centre. We will be on hand to meet members. You can get a good lunch and coffee/tea afterwards at the Centre for a very reasonable price, and still journey home out of peak travel times.

Seniors - remember all bus and train travel is free during off-peak hours!

Some members had asked if we could try a day-time meeting as they find it difficult to drive at night, especially in the winter-time, and this was agreed to by members at our May meeting.

Our July Meeting will be at the usual time of 7.30pm at the South Perth Bowling Club. 

The March 2012 newsletter can be found by clicking on the Read more link below.

 

I recently received the following email:

 

The Cardiff University Welsh for Adults Centre has been teaching the Welsh language, one of Europe’s oldest written languages, for over 30 years. Interest in the Welsh language is on the increase, with more and more people wanting to learn every year. Cardiff University’s Welsh for Adults Centre now wishes to provide the opportunity to learn Welsh to people in more countries.

 

Strategic Marketing, an independent market research company, is working with Cardiff University to assess the potential demand for an online Welsh language course, and how that course should be structured in order to meet the needs of interested learners.

 

Your society has contact with people who potentially have a reason to want to learn Welsh. We have set up a link to a short online survey and we would be very grateful if you could assist us by making this link available to your members/contacts. A number of similar societies in various countries around the world have expressed their support to do this.

 

https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=132800877385

 

Respondents to the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win a place on Cardiff University's 2012 Welsh summer course, including accommodation.

 

We would very much appreciate your support as it will allow us to determine whether there is sufficient demand outside of Wales for an online Welsh course (we stress that we are not selling anything but are conducting research).

 

We will be in touch again shortly to discuss next steps.

 

Many thanks

 

Anthony Lydall

Director

Strategic Marketing

 

Tel: +44 (0)29 2025 2132

 

www.strategic-marketing.co.uk

The Welsh Free Church and St George's Cathederal are jointly holding a Festal Evensong Service in Celebration of St David at 5pm on Sunday 27 February 2011 at St George’s Cathedral, Perth.

To view the poster please click on this link.

 

An Evening Service of Prayer, Music, Readings, and Hymns, to celebrate St David, Patron of Wales.

The Preacher is the Reverend Jeremy James.
 
The nationally-renowned Choir of St George’s Cathedral sings:

Responses         Thomas Tomkins      (of St David’s, Pembrokeshire)

Evening Service   William Mathias     (of Whitland, Carmarthenshire)

Let the People Praise thee O God      William Mathias

We sing great Welsh hymn-tunes, including Hyfrydol, Blaenwern, and Cwm Rhondda. Hymns in English and in Welsh.

The Organists plays Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

 

 

I recently received the following email.  If anyone can help, please let me know & I will forward you Sue's contact details.

 

John

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