The Catrin Vaughan Foundation

18/12/2025

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Iʼm raising money to The Illuminated Tractor Run 2025. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

16/10/2025

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🦋This week our trustee Gwenda was delighted to visit her former primary school Puncheston School / Ysgol Casmael where she met with staff and pupil Emily .

🦋Emily is a Year 4 pupil and has a degenerative vision impairment, her learning and development will greatly benefit from the donation of a laptop and specialised software from the foundation .

🦋It was great to meet you Emily .
Pob lwc / Good luck with your learning.

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07/08/2025

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A huge thank you to NFU Pembrokeshire for recently donating £7899.00 to The Catrin Vaughan Foundation via their NFU Mutual Agency Giving Fund .
Keep a look out for updates on this page in regards to ongoing projects as we catch up with schools again in the autumn term
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27/07/2025

🦋🦋🦋Last Wednesday , we were very lucky as a foundation to be invited to the Valero Oil Refinary Pembroke Charity Awards event at St Brides hotel .
We were very honoured and grateful to be presented with a very generous cheque alongside other Welsh charities .
Pictured is one of our trustees Ailsa accepting a cheque for £20,150 .
With several requests currently ongoing and more incoming to help children with additional learning needs in their education this will go such a long way to meeting those
applications. Thank you 🦋🦋🦋

15/04/2025

The Catrin Vaughan Foundation recently visited Portfield School to donate educational resource equipment to help the primary school children with their education.
The items will be used to involve pupils and staff and will focus on developing independence, social interaction and key elements in the development of the children.

28/03/2025

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📚Diolch o galon i Sefydliad The Catrin Vaughan Foundation am y rhodd hael o gyfresi Twm y Llew yn y Gymraeg a'r Saesneg. Rydym yn gwerthfawrogi'r cyfraniad gwerthfawr hwn o lyfrau i'n hysgol ac yn ddiolchgar iawn am eich caredigrwydd a'ch cefnogaeth. 🌟

Sefydlwyd yr elusen hon yn Sir Benfro er cof am Catrin Vaughan, athrawes ifanc o Ysgol Glannau Gwaun, a bu farw’n drist ar ei ffordd i’r gwaith. Roedd Catrin yn angerddol dros helpu plant i ddod o hyd i’w cryfderau a’u sgiliau – yn enwedig y rhai ag anghenion dysgu ychwanegol – ac mae ei elusen yn darparu cyfleusterau ac offer i ddisgyblion Sir Benfro.

📚A heartfelt thank you to the Catrin Vaughan Foundation for the generous donation of the Twm the Lion Books series in both Welsh and English. We truly appreciate this valuable contribution of books to our school and are deeply grateful for your kindness and support. 🌟

This charity was set up in memory of Catrin Vaughan, a young teacher at Ysgol Glannau Gwaun, who tragically died on her way to work. Catrin was passionate about helping children find their strengths and skills – particularly those with additional learning needs. Her foundation provides facilities and equipment for Pembrokeshire pupils.

18/12/2024

🎄🎄🎄🚜🚜🚜🤶🤶🤶So 4 Days to Go!!🎄🎄🎄🚜🚜🚜🤶🤶🤶

So please find below rough timings for the Run! If our internet behaves we will get a map of the route sorted too!! As I said these are rough timings and could alter depending on circumstances but we will also have a live tracker to keep you up to date on our live position! This will be posted at 5pm on Saturday on this page so please keep an eye out!!

New Moat - 5:45pm
Maenclochog -6:00pm
Llysyfran - 6:10pm
Walton East - 6:20pm
Clarbeston Road - 6:30pm
Wiston - 6:40pm
Newbridge - 6:45pm
Poyston Cross - 6:50pm
Crundale - 7:00pm
Prendergast - 7:10pm
High Street, Haverfordwest - 7:20pm
Withybush Hospital - 7:30pm
Pembrokeshire County Showground - 7:45pm

Due to the busy nature of the start venue, The General public will not be allowed in. This is for us to keep everyone safe so we ask members of the public to not arrive at the start. There is over 26 miles of route so plenty of opportunities to view the run!!

Keep an eye out also for our just giving fundraising page to raise money for our two fantastic charities Wales Air Ambulance Charity The Catrin Vaughan Foundation

Thank you! Tom & Pippa

16/12/2024

Happening this Saturday evening 21st December 🦋🎄🎄🎄Looking forward to seeing the tractors looking festive !!
We are thrilled to have been chosen as one of the charities along with Wales Air Ambulance Charity 🥰
Don’t miss this annual spectacle !

21/11/2024

We have been chosen as one of the lucky charities from this fundraiser 🙏
Diolch i Grwp Babanod a Phlant Ifanc Ysgol Maenclochog 🦋
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11/11/2024

🦋Last week , trustee Rob visited Monkton School who accepted a donation of three strollers for the schools Learning Resource Centres, which were much needed to enable pupils to have equity around school and on field trips.

Thank you again to everyone who supports The Catrin Vaughan Foundation 🦋

09/11/2024

🦋Trustees Robert and Gwenda Vaughan visited Ysgol Llanychllwydog yesterday to present the school with the Sleeping Lions programme made by Raven Technologies.

The device uses a specially created app on a dedicated tablet. By completing various activities designed to lower heart rates the child enables an animated character – Tom the Lion – to relax and fall asleep. As the child calms and their heart rate lowers this is mirrored in Tom: the app guides the user to calm down quicker in order to make Tom fall asleep faster.

Thank you again to all that support The Catrin Vaughan foundation . 🦋

Pictured below are Robert and Gwenda with teacher Mrs Ruth Evans .

25/10/2024

The Catrin Vaughan Foundation visited Waldo Williams Primary School to meet Ffion and present her with a new iPad.
Ffion is visually impaired and has albinism.
Ffion is a keen sportswoman, works hard in school and is set to achieve wonderful things.
The iPad software will allow her to increase the size of font and images so she will be able to complete her school work in class, this will help develop independence for Ffion and give her confidence as she transitions through this year and in to high school.