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www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Anyone else enraged by this??
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to more than £400m after it raises bills by third
Debt-ridden utility warns of ‘material uncertainty’ with potential for a rapid collapse despite profit rise
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December 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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workersgallery.bsky.social
We love this 😍😍😍
masterwoodchip.bsky.social Chris Williams @masterwoodchip.bsky.social · Jun 24
Found this piece of willow that looked like it should be supporting something!
Bark has been removed and the bird box is made from larch offcuts.
June 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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🚨Just 2% of the population - under 800,000 people sustained the whole of England's blood supply over the past 12 months

The NHS has put out an urgent call for 200,000 donors to come forward

Book an appointment or register today ❤️🙏👇
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June 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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workersgallery.bsky.social
We create opportunities for people to engage with art & the #gallery through our Gallery Home Visits initiative

The gallery in a box version of our current show Outsiders, donated by #photographer Marc Davenant is already being shared.

Info:
www.gaylerogersart.com/galleryhomev...
June 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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workersgallery.bsky.social
Visit Saturdays or contact us to make an appointment www.workersgallery.co.uk/contact
June 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social
Swift action anyone? Email Angela.rayner.mp@parliament.uk simply saying ‘please mandate swift bricks’ with a subject line: MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS. Please encourage everyone to do this. Will take 30 seconds.
May 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Interested in our creative community?

Want to help us to do more?

Like to know about what it's like to run an art and community hub?

Want art goodies & discounts in the post?

This is the place to go 👇

www.patreon.com/artgayle?utm...

Thanks to all our fabulous patrons & supporters for your help
Photographer David Hurn in front of the Workers Gallery shutter decorated with his photograph of Tylorstown in the 1970s. Image is of a terraced street with washing on lines as part of the Rhondda Heritage Trail. Artist Gayle Rogers talking to a group of people around a table in the interior of a gallery. Ben Snowdon - organist, photographer David Hurn and actor Michael Sheen at In Conversation event at the Paul Kirner's Music Palace. Group of us visiting the Martin Parr Foundation gallery around a display cabinet - with Isaac Bleese giving us a tour.
May 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Fancy following?

Resident artist & researcher Gayle Rogers has launched a new Insta account.

It focuses on her graphic novel in progress about her ancestor Busby Babe England & Manchester United footballer Duncan Edwards.

There'll be lots of drawing & history

www.instagram.com/busbybabesco...
Ink drawing of three figures jogging
April 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
pearlandlucy.bsky.social
I sailed past numerous cages in Scotland last year, smelt them, witnessed the distress, saw the birds caught in the nets. I didn't see the wildlife devastation below the surface, but that's happening too. All so Norwegian company Mowi can rake in the money.
churchcat.bsky.social Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · Apr 18
I’ve been banging this drum for years. Supermarket salmon is poisonous & has antibiotics, fats & dyes to colour the meat. The farms kill our native salmon and sea trout which pass under their cagers and the salmon themselves are often diseased.
So bad for you.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How the truth about supermarket salmon is being hidden – video
Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out why it is important for consumers to know where their salmon comes from, and examines the gap between the marketing of farmed salmon and the reality for our health, th...
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April 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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workersgallery.bsky.social
Come along folks!
melaniehonebone.bsky.social Melanie Honebone @melaniehonebone.bsky.social · Apr 14
Morning all. I'm in residence at @workersgallery.bsky.social in Ynyshir, Rhondda on Saturday 10th May. I'll be creating art in preparation for an exhibition in Denmark! Come along if you can 😎 #mixedmedia #crayon #feltpen #clay #rhonddavalleys #sculpture #fineart #photography #Rhondda
April 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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workersgallery.bsky.social
Keep it clean folks!

Saturday 5th April - up the Workers!

*10am-5pm*
Enjoy our latest #art exhibitions including a ☀️☀️☀️ filled one by Gayle Rogers. Browse our sketchbooks, notebooks, #handmade #gifts & fun greeting cards.

*1pm*
Meet up for a local community litter pick 🚮

www.workersgallery.co.uk
Brightly coloured poster with painted swashes of colour above a bright drawing of terraced houses and a chapel by Gayle Rogers Exhibition poster for The Sun Always Shines in the Valleys by Gayle Rogers. 3 rows of terraced houses in a cartoon style with a large sun in the top right corner.
April 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Please give this a share & pledge (if you can).

It would be great to get Chris aka MasterWoodChip past his 84% woodland residency fundraiser 🪵🌳.

There is even a pledge that includes a visit with him to the woods!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/woodland-s...

#artist #woods #woodland #ArtistResidency
Chris Williams woodland sculpture residency
I am undertaking a self funded one month artist residency at Welcome to our Woods, Treherbert, Wales.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
April 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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workersgallery.bsky.social
☀️Soak up the sunshine☀️

Saturdays 10am-5pm

The Sun Always Shines in the Valleys by Gayle Rogers

Plus browse our Welsh artist showcase, gift shop & bookshop.

😀 Support small businesses making a positive difference on the high street 😀

www.workersgallery.co.uk

#gallery #art #valleys
Framed landscape drawing of brightly coloured rows of houses. Poster for show called The Sun Always Shines in the Valleys by Gayle Rogers. Image is a streetscape & landscape drawing of brightly coloured rows of houses. Round hills and a big sun in a cartoon style are at the top.
March 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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masatojones.bsky.social
Looking for more followers in this community as i'm very lost in promoting and supporting #shopindie with a small community my voice is lost and on X/Twitter or threads i'm lost in the algorithm

Please follow so we can increase have a #indieauthor #indiecreatives #indiemusic #shopindie community
March 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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workersgallery.bsky.social
Pedal powered art!

Thanks to @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social for this lovely article.

We will be keeping our green fingers crossed!

#bike #art #gallery
bylines.cymru Bylines Cymru @bylines.cymru · Mar 7
The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys

Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability.

✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social

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The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys
Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability
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March 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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workersgallery.bsky.social
We all could do with a bit of positivity at the moment eh?

Get some indoor sunshine this Saturday with a visit to
'The Sun Always Shines in the Valleys' solo exhibition by resident artist Gayle Rogers.

10am-5pm Saturdays
Workers Gallery
Ynyshir
Wales
poster for an exhibition called The Sun Always Shines in the Valleys by Gayle Rogers. The image of a brightly coloured cartoon style drawing of terraced houses with rolling hills and a big sun is most of the poster. Below is a white band with the dates 8 March to 24 May, Workers Gallery address and contact details.
March 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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The Sun Always in the Valleys - the ever optimistic art of Gayle Rogers

Opens Saturday 8th March

Workers Gallery www.workersgallery.co.uk

#art #valleys #gallery
Poster for exhibition with cartoon-like image of a valleys terraced streetscape and green rolling hills under a large sun. The show is titled below as The Sun Always shines in the Valleys - the ever optimistic art of Gayle Rogers.
March 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
pearlandlucy.bsky.social
Whoop! Another accolade for the brilliant @workersgallery.bsky.social 👏👏👏👏
workersgallery.bsky.social Workers Gallery @workersgallery.bsky.social · Feb 24
Delighted to have been shortlisted for the Small Business Britain Green Growth Award!

This is for our commitment to local cargo #ebike deliveries & our #Gallery Home Visits initiative-sustainably bringing exhibitions to those who can't reach us!

Thanks to all who support our creative community 💚🚲
Gayle standing next to our red cargo bike in the gallery interior. The gallery has a mid blue carpet and white walls. The bike is bright red with black panniers. Gayle wears a light brown bicycle helmet, a red and aqua blue coat and black gloves A cartoon style drawing of a figure cycling a red cargo bike with black panniers. The figure is looking towards the viewer and has a bright green helmet, a bright yellow long sleeve top, mid blue trousers and turquoise pumps.
February 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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What is the WORKERS?

What happens in our little corner of South Wales -& beyond?

What #art #photography do we show?

What community projects & events do we support?

Please take a look & share.

We'd really appreciate help to spread the word about the WORKERS
Thanks 🙂
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What's the WORKERS? An art and photography Gallery? Artist Studio? Sculpture Workshop? Events space?
YouTube video by The WORKERS Gallery, Studio and Workshop
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February 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
pearlandlucy.bsky.social
An amazing community space- have a look! 🥰
workersgallery.bsky.social Workers Gallery @workersgallery.bsky.social · Feb 13
What is the WORKERS?

What happens in our little corner of South Wales -& beyond?

What #art #photography do we show?

What community projects & events do we support?

Please take a look & share.

We'd really appreciate help to spread the word about the WORKERS
Thanks 🙂
youtu.be/r2QzrU5pm_4?...
What's the WORKERS? An art and photography Gallery? Artist Studio? Sculpture Workshop? Events space?
YouTube video by The WORKERS Gallery, Studio and Workshop
youtu.be
February 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Thanks for having us! Me and the girls love the Art Pane Relief windows. I hope they're behaving themselves. #ArtInWales #Craftivism #Wales
workersgallery.bsky.social Workers Gallery @workersgallery.bsky.social · Feb 9
We're delighted to see Maria Lalic's Saving Mynydd y Gaer in the Art Pane Relief Windows - particularly her very popular protest dolls - of which their are 6 new ones!

Her new show is on for just over 2 weeks & can be viewed 24/7 through the windows on Ffordd Yr Eisteddfod.
#protest #art #gallery
Alt Text: Maria Lalic leans against a wall beneath two large windows know as the Art Pane Relief Windows. Maria is smiling and is wearing a red/deep orange knitted jumper with a black waterproof over the top. You can see one of her protest dolls in the corner of the left hand window. The doll is looking resplendent in a sunny yellow jumper and patchwork trousers, holding a mini placard Alt Text: A protest doll in the corner of a gallery window. The doll is looking resplendent in a sunny yellow jumper and patchwork trousers, holding a mini placard. Poster for exhibition Saving Mynydd y Gaer by Maria Lalic in the Art Pane Relief Windows of the Workers Gallery. Image is of a protest doll in a rural landscape on a sunny day. The doll is looking resplendent in a sunny yellow jumper and patchwork trousers, holding a mini placard.
February 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Saturday up the Worker!

New show in our Art Pane Relief Windows is Saving Mynydd y Gaer by Maria Lalic. View 24/7 from outside.

Panorama - an exhibition of art responding to the land and streetscapes of Wales continues inside.

Open Saturdays 10am-5pm

www.workersgallery.co.uk
#art #gallery
Poster for an exhibition at the Workers Gallery called Saving Mynydd y Gaer by Maria Lalic. Image is a protest doll holding a mini protest placard in a rural landscape Exhibition poster for Panorama a land and streetscapes show at the Workers Gallery. Images are if a close up of a wooden circular sculpture and watercolour of a semi rural landscape
February 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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It's tricky on social media to mention words like steamy, #wood and bending without attracting the wrong crowd!

But here goes - new one for the woodies from resident #artist @masterwoodchip.bsky.social over on his channel 👇

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Steam Bending Wood, Failure and Success
YouTube video by Master Wood Chip
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February 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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workersgallery.bsky.social
We'd love to see you at this book champions book club evening!

We've a fabulous selection of graphic novels and photobooks in our community library & bookshop.

A warm welcome awaits you on Wednesday 12th February

Register on pay what you want basis www.workersgallery.co.uk/whatsonvisit
February 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Panorama is an eclectic exhibition of land and streetscapes of Wales

It includes original sculpture, paintings, drawings and prints.

Open Saturdays 10am-5pm
Ends 2 March

Enjoy free entry to the WORKERS gallery
#gallery #art
www.workersgallery.co.uk
Poster for an art exhibition called Panorama - land and streetscapes of Wales. Opening hours are 10am-5pm Saturdays. Two images depict a sculpture in wood and a watercolour of a semi rural landscape. Artists are listed as Louise Collis David Mayne Haydn Richardson Gayle Rogers Kevin Sinnott Myfanwy Tristram & Chris Williams
January 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM