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PRESS RELEASE<br />
January 2008<br />
Cip celebrating its 21 st birthday!<br />
One of the <strong>Urdd</strong>’s most popular magazines will travel all over Wales and visit over fifteen<br />
different primary schools in a period of four weeks during January.<br />
Cip (a Welsh language monthly magazine for 7-11 year olds) celebrates its twenty first<br />
birthday this year, therefore to note this special occasion, staff working on the magazine<br />
will travel to four different counties in order to hold workshops and entertain the children.<br />
The journey will start with a lively party to launch the celebrations at Llanfairpwll Primary<br />
School, Anglesey at 10.30am on 17 January. At Llanfairpwll, eighty children will join in the<br />
celebrations along with Mistar <strong>Urdd</strong> as well as a few of the Rownd a Rownd cast.<br />
During the morning, the children from years 3 a 4 will learn a bit about Cip's history. They<br />
will also get a chance to sign a big birthday card and some of the Rownd a Rownd cast will<br />
join Mistar <strong>Urdd</strong> in singing happy birthday and cutting the cake.<br />
Says Efa Gruffudd Jones, <strong>Urdd</strong> <strong>Gobaith</strong> <strong>Cymru</strong>’s Chief Executive;<br />
‘‘It promises to be a very successful celebration and I sincerely hope that the children will<br />
thoroughly enjoy the wokshops and the party. It’s truly great to see the magazines growing<br />
from strength to strength and most of all, reaching its audience - children all over Wales.’’<br />
Following the morning at Llanfairpwll, several other workshops will be held at Corn Hir,<br />
Amlwch and Y Graig, some of Anglesey’s other primary schools. The following week, the<br />
visits will continue in Ceredigion, before visiting schools in the Gwent region at the end of<br />
January. The visits will draw to a close in Conwy County on 8 February.<br />
For more information, please contact: Manon Wyn, Marketing and PR Officer, <strong>Urdd</strong><br />
Office, Llanbadarn Road, Aberystwyth, 01970 613115 manonwyn@urdd.org
NOTES FOR EDITORS<br />
• <strong>Urdd</strong> <strong>Gobaith</strong> <strong>Cymru</strong> is Wales’ largest youth organisation<br />
• The <strong>Urdd</strong> has given children and young people exciting opportunities for over 80 years<br />
• <strong>Urdd</strong> <strong>Gobaith</strong> <strong>Cymru</strong> has over 52,000 members between 8 and 25 years old<br />
• The aim of the <strong>Urdd</strong> is to give the children and young people of Wales an opportunity to live their<br />
lives through the medium of Welsh, developing confidence and respect for each other and the<br />
people of the world<br />
• <strong>Urdd</strong> activities include tours and visits, sports, eisteddfod, magazines, adrannau and aelwydydd and<br />
residential centres<br />
• <strong>Urdd</strong> <strong>Gobaith</strong> <strong>Cymru</strong> has three monthly magazines, Cip, Bore Da (for primary school Welsh<br />
learners) and iaw for secondary school Welsh learners. The magazines are read by 30,000 children<br />
and pupils each month.