Letter to British Telecom from Grangetown Community Concern requesting gifts for older people, Grangetown, Cardiff, November 2003

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A letter to a Simon Thomas of British Telecom at Enterprise House asking for donations of Christmas presents for the elderly, date 28 November 2003. The letter states that Simon and his colleagues helped to deliver meals to older people in Grangetown through the Meals on Legs scheme.

“Grangetown Community Concern would be pleased to accept gifts on behalf of the elderly people that receive our Meals on Legs dinners that you and your colleagues help to deliver. I am sure that they will be very grateful that you have thought of them at Christmas.”

Enterprise House in Adam Street, Adamsdown used to accommodate nearly 400 British Telecom employees. It was sold in 2006 and now forms part of ATRiuM, part of the Cardiff campus of the University of South Wales
(www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/landmark-cardiff-office-block-creative-2340390).

Grangetown Community Concern’s Meal’s on Legs service helped elderly people, who were unable to get out and about, to stay in their home and receive a fresh cooked meal every day Monday to Friday. Volunteers, some of who gave up their lunch hour during work times to deliver these meals, manned this service. On 17 February 2011, the Cardiff Older Persons Forum was advised that the Meals on Legs service had been shut down due to health & safety concerns.

Grangetown Community Concern is a voluntary group, partly funded by Cardiff Council but almost entirely run by volunteers. It was established in 1977 and is a registered charity. The group was set up as an umbrella group for other voluntary organisations with its aims and objectives to provide and encourage services for all age groups, with a particular focus on older people.

The group organises the week-long Grangetown Festival in June. It also organised lunches and trips for older people, and produced a quarterly local newspaper. The organisation has awarded community cups to children from local primary schools who have shown community spirit and has also been responsible for arranging an annual carol service.

The group was renamed Grangetown Community Action in 2014.

Glamorgan Archives, D1070/111
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