What is the Radyr & Morganstown Festival
Normally, a two week May Festival held within the Radyr & Morganstown communities of Cardiff, organised by the Radyr and Morganstown Association (RMA). Hosting multiple events arranged by local groups to suit all interests. The Festival aims to bring the community together whilst simultaneously raising funds for nominated charities.
The Festival Events schedule for May 2026 has now been published with a full programme of indoor and outdoor events for all the family.
Festival Charity
The Festival Charity for 2026 is the City Hospice
City Hospice is Cardiff’s local hospice, providing essential medical and nursing care to people with life-limiting illnesses and support to their families.
At City Hospice our aim is to ensure every patient in our care can live their lives to the fullest for as long as possible, whilst creating lasting memories for their families. We are Cardiff’s local hospice, the only provider of community-based specialist palliative care in the capital. Our team cares for patients across the city, managing their symptoms and offering essential support.
Each month, we receive 100 new patient referrals and care for around 500 patients at any given time. We help patients with diagnoses such as Cancer, Dementia, Motor Neurone Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and other life-limiting illnesses.
The Festival Committee are working closely with City Hospice who have a full programme of events and opportunities to raise funds and awareness through their year.
A Message From Our Chairman
(Updated March 2026)
Welcome to the Association’s 39th Radyr and Morganstown May Festival. This year our selected charity is the City Hospice who are based in a building on the Whitchurch Hospital site. Unfortunately, many of our local families will have had experience of their important work.
Please support the festival and the charity and buy lots of draw tickets. All proceeds from the raffle and from the closing concert go directly to the charity and there is a book of raffle tickets included with this programme in the Radyr Chain. Full details of all events can be found on our festival website, www.rmfestival.org.uk and regular updates can be found on our Facebook Page @RadyrAndMorganstownHub and also on X (Twitter) @RMHub.
This year’s theme is “Caring for the Community” which is very appropriate.
The festival will start again with a Drama Society Production, Alan Ayckbourn’s Round and Round the Garden, to be held in Morganstown Village Hall from 22 – 24 April. This will then be followed on Saturday 2 by our first outdoor event, the Festival Fete, which will again be held in the grounds of Radyr Primary School. In the evening we have our first charity concert, organized by Cardiff West Rotary with the Castell Coch Choral Society in Christ Church. The first of our new events this year, an Art Exhibition, takes place in the Methodist Church from Saturday 2 to Monday 4 May. Another new event, Gardeners Question Time, will be held on Tuesday 5 May in a new venue, Pugh’s Garden Centre. We continue with a number of regular events: a Wine and Cheese evening, the Tenovus Quiz, and our ever-popular Jazz night with “Cube”. Our Party in the Park, is on the middle Saturday, 9 May, and is again being held in Radyr Primary grounds. We then have an event returning after a number of years, a Cymanfa Ganu in Christ Church on Sunday evening, 10th May. Audience numbers for the Science with a Pint evening have been growing each year, and we will be repeating this successful event for a third year. It is being held in the OCR with a licensed bar. Boozy Bards is taking place again with its mixture of Poems, Pints, monologues, and songs, but this year the venue will be the Weir Room in the OCR. We have the regular lunchtime concert, again this year with David Thomas, one of Britain’s leading organists, and he will be playing music in Christ Church on Friday 15. On Saturday morning 16th May we have two performances for the very young in the Hub; Louby Lous will bring their Dinosaur Explorer session. In the afternoon we have a welcome return of the Dog Show in Lychgate Gardens. The festival will finish on Sunday 17 with a charity concert in Christ Church with Cor Caerdydd.
This year we have lost two of our previous major events, the Vintage Tea Party and the Open Gardens. Tea Party numbers had been dropping so it was no longer viable and there was only one person willing to open their garden this year which is a real shame. However, the plant stall will now be moved to the Fete at the beginning of the festival.
I would like to thank Michael Graham Young for again agreeing to be our box office. Tickets will also be available online through our festival website, www.rmfestival.org.uk.
I would like to thank all the Festival Committee and all our helpers, without whom the festival could not take place. If anyone else wishes to help us, please contact us (info@rmfestival.org.uk).
We look forward to seeing you all at the Festival.
David Silver
Chair Festival Committee