It was a great pleasure for WNS to join in welcoming the latest batch of visiting students from Vestland in Norway to Cardiff. They come to spend a year at Cardiff and the Vale College in an association that goes back around thirty years, during which time many firm friendships have been made.
The Deputy Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Cllr Helen Lloyd Jones, welcomed the group in a ceremony at the Mansion House. Kate Keohane, the new Historical Outreach Officer at the Norwegian Church, pictured front left, talked about the long history of Norwegians in south Wales and the Norwegian Seamen’s Mission, which established churches in Cardiff, Barry, Swansea, and Newport, and ran community activities and social services.
Bethan Winter and Kevin Burden of the WNS spoke about the current community of Norwegians and friends of Norway in Wales, and invited the visiting students to make themselves at home at the church, as Norwegians have done in Cardiff for 150 years.
We hope to see the students at our social events and, in between times, in the Norsk cafe at the Norwegian Church.
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