St Athan Village

Get Smart With St Athan - are you contributing to saving energy?

SWALEC has teamed up with local community group “Get Smart With St Athan” and the South East Wales Energy Agency to help the entire St Athan community cut its energy use, using a wide range of energy efficiency measures.  If the village achieves a 10% cut in energy use within the two years, SWALEC will give £20,000 to St Athan.

As part of the project, residents have been offered smart meters, energy monitoring devices, home energy surveys, free advice workshops and grants for home insulation. Over the next two years, the community’s energy consumption will be measured using a real-time meter installed in the local substation. This will be fed back to the residents so residents can plot their progress. SWALEC will be using the data to understand the best ways of encouraging a community to reduce its energy demand.

NEW FOR 2010 - Vale Warriors Australian Rules Football Club

A new team in the Welsh Australian Rules Football League is making its debut into the Aussie Rules contest this season. Although the team are based at Barry RFC, the President, Nick Baker, has asked for this new Vale Team to be advertised within St. Athan.

Aussie rules football is played in Wales from pre-season training in February to the official league games beginning in April/May.  For the 2010 season, league games begin the first weekend in May and the league season ends at the end of July.  Both national and international matches are played right through until October. These dates coincide with out of season dates for rugby players and as such, has developed a large following of rugby players who want to continue to participate in a team sport and continue their fitness and kicking accuracy.

If you are interested or want to find out more, then visit the website: www.warfl.co.uk
or telephone the coach, David Morgan-Kane on 07805 838933. 

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