NEWS IN BRIEF:

December 2025

SOUTH WALES POLICE AND CRIME COMMISIONER
SURVEY LAUNCHED – WE WANT TO HEAR FROM RESIDENTS IN SOUTH WALES

What is the consultation about?

This consultation relates to the amount residents contribute to policing through their Council Tax.
Half of the required budget for policing in South Wales comes from the UK Government, whilst the remaining amount needed is raised through Council Tax payments (the Police Precept).

For more information please download the Partner Toolkit (pdf)

August 2025
Save a Life September

July 2025
New defibrillator at the Village Shop

Wick Community Council are pleased to announce the installation of a new defibrillator located on the front wall of the village shop in Wick. Defibrillators are also located at the St James’s Church on Church Street and the Sports Field/Pavilion, Cwrt-Y-Felin.

Wick Community Councillors photographed with Kristian outside the village shop and
Sian, ‘Save a Life Cymru’ installing the new defibrillator

Thanks to all at Wick Village Shop and Sian from ‘Save a Life Cymru’ for supporting this project and please look out for details of training courses including the use of defibrillators taking place in September.

May 2025
Wick Community Council Annual Report – 2024/25 (pdf)

The Chair’s Annual Report provides a summary of work undertaken during 2024/25. The report covers grant funding, removal of older benches and replacement with new at the village green and the ‘triangle’ close to the village hall, Wick Food Hub and the Warm Places scheme and an update regarding the proposed lease agreement with the Vale Council.

March 2025
Greenlinks – Community Transport

Depending on vehicle availability and passenger demand, volunteer driven vehicles can transport you to where you’d like to travel, when you want to travel.

For further information about membership and booking or becoming a volunteer driver please select the following link to Greenlinks Community Transport

February 2025
Notice of Casual Vacancies

Notice is hereby given that TWO vacancies have occurred among the members of Wick Community Council. It is intended to fill these vacancies by way of co-option.

Expressions of interest are being sought from members of the public who meet the following qualifications and are interested in representing their community on the Community Council. You must be a British, Commonwealth, Irish or a European Union citizen and be 18 years of age or over; and meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Registered as a local government elector for the area.
• During the whole of the last 12 months occupied as owner or tenant land or other premises in the community; or
• Your principal or only place of work during the last 12 months has been in the community; or
• You have during the whole of the last 12 months resided in the Community or within 4.8 kilometres of it.

Any person wishing to be considered for these vacancies should apply to the Clerk in writing or by email on or before the 16th of March 2025

The applicant must not be debarred from standing as a Councillor.

In the event of their being more applicants than there are vacancies the successful applicant will be selected, on the basis of the written applications, at the council’s meeting on Thursday 20th March 2025

Written applications should be sent in the first instance to:-

Councillor Conway Hawkins, Clerk
Wick Community Council
18 Ewenny Road
Wick
COWBRIDGE
CF71 7QA.
Or by email to wickcommunitycouncil@gmail.com

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