Congratulations!

These smiling, happy faces belong to our very talented volunteers, Heritiana, Rema and Mampionona. They are proudly displaying their certificates to show that they have passed the level 2 Food Safety in Catering course.
Way back in February, they attended the course as part of The Winter Skillz (sic) initiative in the Rhondda Fach.
This evening we all attended the celebration event at Canolfan Rhys to see everyone get the recognition they so richly deserve.
The courses covered such diverse areas as catering, childcare, dry-stone walling, carpentry and play work (amongst others) and the participants ranged in age from 14 - 60 or so.
Winter Skillz is an event that has grown from the first Summer Skillz, held two years ago. Local community members are encouraged to participate in order to gain skills and experience that will help build confidence and self-esteem as well helping to show prosepective employers marketable skills.
Our local Assembly Member, Leighton Andrews was there to award the certificates and show his support as were several other local luminaries.
The Penrhys Partnership is the driving force behind the success of this programme and congratulations are due to Wayne, Julie, Debbie and Melissa for all their hard work on this.

So, a very big, WELL DONE to Heritiana, Rema and Mampionona, Rena, Paul and Ray who all took up this challenge and succeded! Our cafe is the better for having well-trained staff to serve our customers.