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About Our Work
Breakfast Club
Free school meals uptake is very high and a lot of "holiday hunger” exists in the area, where low-income families struggle to eat healthily outside term time. We value our local community and engage with local supermarkets to use their surplus food to provide a free meal and a bag of food to take home for people experiencing food poverty. The Breakfast Club offers a warm, hospitable and engaging welcome, providing families with a place where children and parents/carers can have a hot, nutritious meal with their neighbours.
Breakfast Club provides an opportunity to build social networks and enables people from different cultures and backgrounds, who may not otherwise meet, to come together and form solid connections and friendships, thus strengthening the community in which they live and bringing about ongoing positive impact.
Diverse Community Building and Growth Opportunities
We bring together many ethnic groups, the elderly, those without permanent homes, ex-offenders and asylum seekers, and give access to advice, activities, education and volunteer opportunities. Volunteers from all backgrounds help to raise funds by face-painting, holding table-top sales and holding seasonal childrens' events. Outdoor events are held in order to provide necessary items to the homeless. All our volunteers feel they are respected members of our community.
Meet the Founder Members of Splott Community Volunteers
Angela Bullard
Angela Bullard was born on Swansea Street, Splott, Cardiff on 8 April 1949. She well remembers the community spirit that existed there when she was growing up and, on marriage, experienced the same kind of familiarity when she moved overseas with Fred, a Serviceman. Always loving the feeling of involvement in, and concern for, her local community, Angela first became involved in volunteering by doing some face painting in schools with a friend. However, a project on food poverty in the area shocked her into wanting to address this particular problem.
Fred Bullard
Fred Bullard was born on a farm in Royston, Stevenage in 1943. He moved back to Wales with Angela in 1992, on his retirement from the Royal Air Force, as he loved the warmth of the people of Cardiff. First spending a lot of time in Splott with their disabled elder son, Fred then became a volunteer by assisting on the 'Man Van' for Tenovus Cancer Care and repairing hearing aids and giving general advice with the charity 'Action on Hearing Loss' before having the idea to hold a Community Fete which raised funds for a Breakfast Club to tackle food poverty.
Trisha Mardon
Trisha Mardon was born in Marion Street, Splott, youngest daughter of a large family of girls. Her parents were well-known in the area as event organizers for their local Social Club and, despite suffering with fibromyalgia, Trisha has inherited her parents' community spirit and wants to give back to the community as they did. She began by helping to establish a Lego Club for the youngsters in the community. She first met Fred and Angela after they were introduced at a Tea Dance they all organised together to raise funds for Breast Cancer Now.
How We're Helping
We are a nonprofit organization focused on helping make the community around us a better, happier place. With the help of our tireless unpaid workers, we organize fundraisers, community-building events, and in-depth training sessions for our volunteers.
Get Involved
Do you empathise with what we're doing? Let us know! We are always looking for volunteers to help us make our vision a reality. We'll help you find a way to volunteer that best suits you. We would be happy to have you join the team!
Thank You
Whether you help through donations, volunteering your time, or spreading our mission through word-of-mouth, thank you. We couldn't accomplish our goals without the help of supporters like you.
