Ty Olwen

The Chairman of Ty Olwen Trust, Mrs. Helen Murray, is pictured with Andy Travers and Helen Tobin from Montagne Jeunesse receiving a donation of £1,250.00. Ty Olwen was nominated by members of the CSR team to receive the donation. Patients at Ty Olwen have also benefited from the generous donation of skin care products from Montagne Jeunesse and are enjoying being “pampered”.

On Wednesday the 8th January 2014, Mr Vivian Griffiths Honorary Secretary of  Skewen & District Industrial Heritage Association presented a cheque for £1,000 to Mrs Margaret Bartlett, President of the Ty-Olwen Trust. The money was raised by the making of a community DVD called ‘Looking Back’ Neath Abbey and Skewen.  A similar donation was also raised in March 2013 with a DVD titled `Churches & Chapels of Neath Abbey and Skewen. With the generous support of the residents of the villages they will hopefully do another community DVD later this year. Both DVD’s can still purchased by sending a cheque for £11 for each DVD to

Mr Vivian Griffiths
18, Goshen Park
Skewen
SA10 6PT

New Year’s Eve 2012, eight very good friends (four couples) and a glass or two of wine (or more) led to the decision to do a challenge in the forthcoming year and in October 2013 these good friends did a four day trek to Mount Toubkal, Morocco, the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. The 4^th day was very tough, the final climb to the top, a long day starting at 5-30am and finishing at 7-20pm with just 15 minutes rest at the top and 30 minutes for lunch at the base.  Thank you to Sheila and Mike Williams, Dr Chris and Lisa Johns, Phil Foot, Tracy Pollock and Rhys and Hayley Harris for undertaking such an enormous venture and to Sheila’s customers at Espirit in Sketty who generously donated £425 to Ty Olwen. New Year’s Eve 2013 and…………………………?

Thank you to Days Contract Hire, Garngoch for your final donation of 2013 of £481-56 bringing your total now to £2299-38

Charitable funds are set to receive a beauty boost this Christmas following the efforts of the NVQ Level 3 Hair & Beauty students from Neath Port Talbot College Group.  Each year the Hair & Beauty department, based at the Colleges’s Afan Campus, hold a “Beauty Therapist Challenge” which is aimed at developing the students’ enterprise skills.  The students are tasked with setting up their own beauty businesses including branding, product development, marketing and sales.  Ty Olwen was chosen as one of the Chaities to benefit from the venture.

The challenge took place over four weeks with the students selling products and offering treatments at various venues across the authority.  The students also visited Ty Olwen and local nursing homes to offer the patients and residents some pampering.  Raffles and donations were also organised resulting in £1,237 being raised.

Juliana Thomas, Deputy Head of Hairdressing and Applied Therapies, explains:  “Each year we set this challenge for our students and each year we are overwhelmed by how hard they work to raise as much money as they can for their chosen charities.  The students gain hands-on experience at running thier own business and all the hard work and planning that entails, but the biggest benefits they get are life skills.  Through visiting places such as Ty Olwen and working with the patients the students develop skills that would be difficult to teach in the classroom.”

Pictured are Juliana Thomas and Claire Richardson from Neath Port Talbot College Group’s Hair and Beauty Department presenting a cheque to Ty Olwen’s President, Mrs. Margaret Bartlett.

Thanking the students for their efforts, Mrs. Bartlett said, ” Without this kind of fundraising Ty Olwen would not be able to deliver the services that the patients and their families greatly rely on.  It was a pleasure to have the students from the Neath Port Talbot College Group visit the Unit and we are extremely grateful to them for all their hard work in raising such a magnificent sum.”

On behalf of the Ty Olwen Trustees, the Staff at Ty Olwen and our Patients and their families may I take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us during the year. You are helping to make a huge difference to so many people in so many different ways. As 2013 draws to a close we look to 2014 certain that we can rely on the continued support of so many generous people.
We send to you all, good wishes for Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year.
Helen Murray
Chairman Ty Olwen Trust

A Penllegaer man will never forget the kindness and care lavished upon his uncle in the final weeks of his life by Ty Olwen staff. And he and his cousin have had a permanent inking as a lifelong reminder.

On Saturday Scott Brown and Haydn Jones added the Ty Olwen logo and the mantra “Ty Olwen care is always there” to their collection of tribal and religious tattoos.

The sponsored tattoo, under the needle of Reaperz Ink Studio in Gorseinon, has already raised £500 for the specialist Swansea hospice, and the lads have pencilled in another fundraiser, on January 18, at Penllergaer Sports and Social Club too. Scott says having seen the love lavished upon his father Vic Brown during his cancer battle, it was the least he could do.

“I was blown away by the care the staff gave my dad, and to everyone in Ty Olwen.

1. Celebration Hamper                      0835
2. Wine and Nibbles Hamper            1658
3. Stuhrling                                        2942
4. Bottle of Whisky                             1834
5. Bottle of Gin                                    0947
6. M & S Gift Voucher                        0651
7. Bottle of Wine                                 2053
8. Biscuits                                            1553
9. Ceramic 9 Piece Dip Set                1647
10. Mezzaluna Knife and Board          1700
11. 3 Ceramic Dip Bowls                      3523
12. Whisky Fudge Chocolates             1277
13. Crystal Owl                                     3331

Thank you to everybody who bought tickets.