From Balls Up To Bianco Journey Begins          

Remember the trucks?!

Not easily forgotten! The reason for the choice of colour is lost in the mists of time!

The colour chosen for the archive blog is pink in their honour!


 Here we are, the calm before the storm, the trickle before the flood, or in this weather, the snowball before the avalanche.

Before us the task of tucking up into neat, exciting packages the untidy and unplanned past.

Wow! Nearly three decades of it.

   So ideas first. How do you get your head around it. Well in one sense its easy. Literally you can't. The past itself is gone. Pwf! As ethereal as dust in a shaft as sunlight.

   What we've got to collect is what the dust settles on. Easier said than done! This is where we are now, looking back and trying to find what the dust settled on.



12th January  10am                                          
                              1st meeting of team              

          The archive team meeting on the first day. There is not so much room on those shelves anymore!

Clockwise from back Tony Philpott, Ali Williams (seated), Liz Lavender, and Kay

 We have hoisted our flag and set sail on the seas of discovery!  Avast!  We are coming for your memories and artefacts!

12th January  11am                                              
                     Tutorial with Jodi.                        

Learning Live Drive and Mail Chimp.
Very, very useful!





12th January  2pm                                       
                The Cardiff Story Museum             

Saw the room where the exhibition
could be, and it is huge, big enough for a flying trapeze!
It is a great space, we just need to collect the physical objects to fill it, and they're going to have to be bigger than a few juggling balls




15th January  10.30am                                           
                  The Glamorgan Archives                     

This is where the paper archive of NoFitState will be stored. We had a really constructive meeting with Susan Edwards and Rhian Phillips who were great and enthusiastic about the project. We met a conservator who was restoring one of their documents from the 1790s. Its bonkers to think that in 200 years time that could be a programme from Bianco being restored.

Tucked behind the Bluebird Stadium the Glamorgan Archives are a hidden treasure!

15th January 3.30pm                                         
             Voluntary Community Service Meeting            

With the manager of VCS, Jeremy Rees, discussed recruitment, feedback, agreements, induction, support and many more essential topics. It's a great help to be able to tap into the experience, wisdom and practical knowledge of the VCS.

20th January     
           National Press Release    
Time to start getting the message out!

 20th January 10.30am                           
               Star Communities First Meeting              

Joe Redmond from Star Communities First, great as a one stop shop to reach both potential volunteers and lots of people with memories of the earlier years from around NoFitState, and not just from the Great Eastern and the Moira!

22nd January 9.30 - 1pm                                       
                    Volunteer Co-ordinators Network           

• Wales Millennium Centre community involvement
• Third sector update
• Gypsy roma traveller history month
• Streetwise opera
• NoFit State archive project
• Made in Roath
• Song of Sanctuary
• Gwirvol youth volunteering grants

In These Stones Horizons Sing - Creu Gwir Fel Gwydr Ffwrnais Awen

22nd January 4pm     
             Press Release for STAR Newsletter 

Go faster! Grr! - Don't you know it's raining!

Fun in the local community in the early days. Do you recognise anyone? Hopefully it will help trigger memories and people will come forward to look over the past with us. We're here, just get in touch!