A group from North Cardiff has been coming up with activities and events to encourage people to follow current guidelines and restrictions
Credit: YGC Rebel Mams
A group of mums from North Cardiff got together to support locals during the lockdown and to raise people’s spirits.
What started as a group chat and cheering outside houses at ‘Pam National’ grew into a community group that has been coming up with events and activities throughout the year.
When the first lockdown was announced in March, Pam French has decided she wouldn’t cancel her challenge run, instead she’d changed it with some help from mums from Ysgol Glan Ceubal primary school.
Pam’s friend group decided to make the run into an event calling it ‘Pam National’ and they created social media accounts called YGC Rebel Mams and cheered from their gardens while Pam made the running route around the houses.
“It’s so nice to have something to look forward to in the lockdown, especially when you have kids,” said Kate Graham, one of the mums.
She said they started coming up with ideas for what else they could do that encourages people to stay home and social distance, but still gives them something to do and look forward to.
Some of these were photography challenges and filming short movies at home.
The used their free time to create a positive impact
She said they also wanted to use the extra time to create a positive impact on the area, which included gardening, leaving chalkboard messages and litter picking.
Even though there couldn’t be “trick or treating”, YGC Rebel Mams kept the Halloween spirit, decorated their houses and shared the pictures with everyone.
Last weekend you could have seen them putting up a poppy display by the Barracks on Gabalfa Avenue to commemorate Remembrance Sunday.
YGC Rebel Mams have received support from the local councillor Jennifer Burke-Davies and school’s headmistress Mrs Mead who were happy to see videos of the children practising their Welsh.
Although it started with to help during lockdowns, Kate said they will carry on with the activities after.
