An eight-year-old schoolgirl has scooped the top prize in a competition to create a new ice cream sundae to help raise funds for the 2015 Urdd Eisteddfod.
Chloe Bull, from Bedwas, designed the new treat for Machen-based firm Hapus Ice Cream.
The Urdd 2015 Sundae boasts three scoops of vanilla, strawberry and mint ice cream to mirror the Urdd colours, with fresh cream, a wafer, sprinkles and an Urdd flag to finish.
It will be on sale at Hapus from this week until the launch of the Eisteddfod celebrations next May at Llancaiach Fawr.
All profits from the sale of the sundaes will be donated to the local Urdd appeal.
Hapus proprietors Richard and Siân Powell said they have a special fondness for the Urdd, as they have three children, studying at Ysgol Gymraeg Caerffili and Ysgol Gymraeg Cwm Rhymni, who competed at this year’s Urdd Eisteddfod held in Bala, North Wales.
Siân explained: “Our girls have benefitted hugely from participating in the Urdd and we wanted to show our support by helping to raise funds for the Urdd when it visits our borough next year.”
The Urdd National Eisteddfod is one of Europe’s largest touring youth festivals.
As in previous years, the event is set to be a big hit, with a forecast of 100,000 visitors through the gates and 15,000 young people expected to compete during the course of the festival.
Local committees are already working hard to raise funds for the Urdd 2015.
Staging each Eisteddfod costs around £2 million, with 15% of this expected to come from local fundraising efforts.
Hapus have set themselves a challenge of raising £250 towards the Urdd appeal through sales of their Urdd 2015 Sundae.
The competition to design the new sundae was open to primary school pupils across the county borough.
For more information about the Urdd, visit www.eisteddfod.org.uk.
Excuse me whilst I check my calendar….Nope, it’s not the 1st April!
I can’t believe this. A girl put three scoops of ice-cream in a bowl to form a pattern, she then makes national news.
Even the reason behind it is loopy. All of this for a proposed target of £250! That’s 0.0125% of the total staging budget. You generate more than £250 by holding a poster asking for a donation in Caerphilly Town Centre on the Big Cheese weekend where some idiots are paying out money left, right and centre for something or another.
I’m not sure what is worse Dean – the fact that you’re being publicly mean about an eight year old girl, or the fact that you think Caerphilly Observer constitutes ‘national news’! This is exactly the sort of positive story we need in our local press.
Please, I’m not being critical about her in particular. My criticism is not her but the entire thing. Think of it this way…
I could get my son to paint a blue shape on a piece of paper, I claim the blue shape looks like a reservoir, I sell the ‘art’ for pennies and donate profits to the “Save Our Reservoirs” campaign. It’s laughable!