Cardiff Council is inviting residents to have their say on the future of Welsh‑medium secondary education. The Council wants to hear from parents and carers, learners, school staff and the wider community about what matters most to them when it comes to Welsh‑medium education in Cardiff. There will be in-person events in North Cardiff, including a drop-in session at Llanishen Hub on Thursday (19 February) and a public meeting at Lisvane Memorial Hall on Tuesday 24 February.

REPORT: Friends of Rhiwbina Library author talk - Ruth Binney on 'Life with Plants' This week (Tuesday 10 February), the Friends of Rhiwbina Library welcomed author and gardener Ruth Binney  to give a talk about her life and the books she has written about plants, gardening, and the gardening communities she has been a part of. She brought us back in time to just after the war, discussing her childhood growing up in Tiverton, Devon with her father as a housemaster at a boys'

The spooky stage phenomenon 2:22 A Ghost Story returns to Cardiff's New Theatre next week (Monday 16 - Saturday 21 February). Winner of Best New Play at the WhatsOnStage Awards, this edge-of-your-seat, supernatural thriller is written by Danny Robins, creator of the hit BBC podcasts Uncanny and The Battersea Poltergeist . Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam isn’t convinced. Can the dead really walk again? There's certainly something unsettling in thi

It’s Wednesday lunchtime at Beulah United Reformed Church and a room full of people are listening to four young singers from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) Opera School perform for us. Outside, life carries on, but inside there’s a sense of something special as we listen to Mozart, Handel and other great composers. Seeing such talented young performers, and to have access these performances in Rhiwbina village, feels like a real privilege. To understand th

Beina Beats started as a simple idea in a local pub in December 2024. Ten local music lovers sat around a table talking about how many grassroots venues were closing, how hard it was becoming to find intimate live music spaces, and how much we all wanted something special right here in Rhiwbina. Instead of waiting for someone else to make it happen, we decided to do it ourselves. What’s grown from that conversation is Beina Beats. Started in 2025 as a hugely successful one-ni

REPORT: Friends of Rhiwbina Library author talk - Professor John Aggleton on 'Memory: Losing, Using, and Improving' Professor John Aggleton of Cardiff University joined the Friends of Rhiwbina Library, this week (Tuesday 9 December) to speak about the brain and memory; how we use it, lose it, and ways to improve it.   A world expert in neuroscience , John’s research has expanded the scientific community's (and now the local Rhiwbina community's!) understanding of how memory i

Fortune smiled on this year's Christmas Festival in Rhiwbina Village, with the threatened downpours staying away and just a few showers making a short appearance. Image: Rhiwbina Info The village bustled with activity, with a range of food stalls doing brisk business in Pen y Dre, Canolfan Beulah hosting stallholders galore and the stage on Heol y Deri welcoming an array of talent throughout the event. Father Christmas first appeared on the snowy roof of Edwards and Co Proper

...is to go to the Rhiwbina Christmas Festival on Saturday 29 November! The programme of events for the 2025 Rhiwbina Christmas Festival has been announced. Activities, focused on Pen-y-dre and Heol-y-Deri, will begin at 4pm and go on until 7pm. There will be music and family entertainment, arts and crafts stalls, a variety of food and drink. The full programme is as follows: 4.00 Sounds From The Stage by RATS (stage) 4:30 Kinetic School of Performing Arts (stage) 5.00 Chr

Image: National Trust Rhiwbeina Primary School held a landmark event today (Monday 24 November) planting their ‘Tree of Hope’ - a sapling from the renowned Sycamore Gap Tree which stood at Hadrian's Wall before it was illegally felled in September 2023. The 200-year-old tree, which stood within Northumberland National Park on land cared for by the National Trust , was an iconic landmark visited by thousands of people every year. Seeking to provide a legacy arising from this

There will be an ecumenical Christmas Memorial Service at the Wenallt Chapel at Thornhill Crematorium in Rhiwbina on Sunday 30 November at 11.30am. The 45-minute service, conducted by Rev Jason Tugwell, will include readings, poems and carols, with Deborah Morgan Lewis leading the singing. Everyone is welcome to attend. There will a collection in aid of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff ’s (Rhiwbina councillor Adrian Robson) two chosen charities for the year: the Forget-Me-Not Chorus

There will be more tree-planting events in Rhiwbina and other parts of North Cardiff over the coming weeks and months, as part of Cardiff Council’s ‘Coed Caerdydd’ urban forest project. There are plans to plant a further 30,000 trees in the city’s green spaces, as well as on its streets and in school, community and privately-owned spaces by spring next year. Volunteers helping out at the Coed Caerdydd tree nursery. Image credit: Cardiff Council The plan aims to build on the s

Cardiff city centre will be host to a series of high profile concerts over the next few months, which bring with them road closures and...

And that's a wrap on the Rhiwbina Village 2025 Summer Festival. Despite the unpredictable weather, the two-day day community festival...

Summer is here (well almost) and that can only mean one thing - the Rhiwbina Summer Festival is coming! The event will be officially...

There will be a public drop-in event at Whitchurch Tennis Club next week (Tuesday 17 June, 2-6pm), to give residents and local businesses...

REPORT: Friends of Rhiwbina Library monthly author talk – Richard Sugg on 'Home is Where the Heart is' – a tale of remarkable dogs and...

A Babies Remembrance Service will be held at 11.30am on Sunday 29 June at the Wenallt Chapel, Thornhill Crematorium, Rhiwbina. The...

NEW THEATRE PREVIEW ROUND-UP by Andy Weltch The stage version of Horrible Histories is coming back to Cardiff with two fun-packed shows...

North Cardiff's parkrun has today (31 May) celebrated its 150th event. This morning's edition of Llanishen Park parkrun attracted 225...

Cardiff Castle will glow red as Cardiff marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day with a celebration picnic in the Castle grounds, street...