The 12th Charles Street Carnival and Festival of Community Arts in 1988 had the theme Australia to link with the bicentennial celebrations of the first fleet arriving at Botany Bay to start a penal colony. Two Cardiffs had been identified in Australia, in New South Wales and Queensland. This letter from Douglas M Hendy is a response to an article in the South Wales Echo newspaper asking for information for an exhibition on these Australian Cardiffs. The writer offers the loan of special edition newspapers and a cricket programme for the exhibition. His brother emigrated to Australia and lived in Queensland.

In June 1977, Cardiff Community Concern started the Charles Street Carnival as a community groups' alternative celebration of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. This became an annual event and grew into a separate organisation, Charles Street Arts Foundation. The Foundation came to employ artists and staff but was founded and run by volunteers. Cardiff Community Concern, also founded and run by volunteers, was an alternative advice and information centre for young people, based at 58 Charles Street. Both organisations were founded by Ian Horsburgh.

Glamorgan Archives, D20/4/2/1
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