The Hatch at Waunfawr Park

08/08/2026

Meet us in the car park by the fire field 🥰

08/08/2026

🌳☀️ Weekend plans? We’ve got you covered at The Hatch @ Waunfawr Park! ☀️🌳

We’re open 9:00am - 5:00pm all weekend and the sweet treat cabinet is looking better than ever! 😍

Whether you’re heading out for a family walk, meeting friends for coffee, or letting the little ones loose in the park, make sure you pop in and treat yourself! 💚

🍫 This week’s brownie & blondie line-up from Steph Bakes…

🤎 Brownies
✨ Happy Hippo
🥛 Malteser
🍫 Double Chocolate
🐸 Freddo

💛 Blondies
🍪 Jammie Dodger
🍫 Galaxy Ripple
🍋 Lemon & White Chocolate
🥜 Reese’s

🥐 Fresh from Nos Da Bakery…
💛 Custard Ice Slices (be quick… these won’t hang around for long! 👀)
🤎 OG Brownie
🍓 Pop Tart Blondie
🍩 Homer Donuts
🌱 Snickerish Brownie (GF & Vegan)
🫐 Blueberry & Coconut Flapjack (GF & Vegan)
🍪 Biscoff Caramel Cookie Sandwich (Vegan)

☕ Pair one with your favourite coffee, cool down with an iced drink, or grab an award-winning Marshfield Farm ice cream while you enjoy everything Waunfawr Park has to offer. 🍦🌿

Bring the family, enjoy the fresh air, and let us do the hard work! We can’t wait to see you this weekend. 💚

06/08/2026

Happy Thursday! 🥳

What better way to spend the morning than coming to meet these amazing characters at 11am 🤩 AND even better it’s completely free! All we ask is that you support the cafe where able. They will be around for an hour, so come over and say hello and have a photo 💚

04/08/2026

04/08/2026

Who’s coming to meet, sing & dance with Princesses Ariel & Belle today (Tuesday 4th)? We are so excited! 🥳

⏰ 11am at The Hatch @ Waunfawr Park

All completely free, all we ask is that you support the cafe where able 💚

02/08/2026

💚 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 💚

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had so many people asking whether we would be applying for the café tender at Tredegar Park (Newport). We can now confirm that we did.

Firstly, we’d like to thank everyone who wished us luck and believed in what we could bring to the project. The support has genuinely meant a lot to us.

Unfortunately, our application wasn’t successful. We finished 2nd out of 6 applicants. Whilst we’re naturally disappointed, we’re incredibly proud of the submission we put together. We received some excellent feedback on our proposal and the vision we presented.

We truly believe that our family-driven, community-centred approach would have been a huge asset to Tredegar Park for many years to come. Our vision was about far more than simply operating a café - it was about creating a welcoming community hub, delivering free family events, supporting local suppliers, creating local employment opportunities and giving visitors even more reasons to enjoy everything the park has to offer.

That said we didn’t agree with some of the aspects of the evaluation. We believe some areas of our submission were marked lower than the published criteria justified. We appreciate that appeals rarely change the final outcome, but we felt it was important to raise our concerns and ensure the process is properly reviewed.

We had over 10+ letters of support from councillors, suppliers, schools, charities and some customers - to be used as backing for the application, but fell on death ears.

Of course, disappointment doesn’t define us.

Our focus remains exactly where it has always been – delivering the very best experience possible for all our customers and visitors The Glade Cafe and The Hatch at Waunfawr Park . We have exciting plans for both cafés over the coming weeks, months and years, and we’ll continue investing in our businesses, our staff and the communities we serve.

Thank you to every customer who has supported us, visited us, recommended us and believed in what we do. We never take that support for granted.

This wasn’t the outcome we hoped for, but we’ll keep moving forward, keep growing and keep looking for the next opportunity to bring our ideas to life.

The best is yet to come. 💚

02/08/2026

Week 3 of the Summer Holidays - let’s go! 🥳

We’ve got another fun packed week for you, and everything is completely free and no need to book - we just ask that you support the cafe where able 💚

💚 Monday 11am at The Glade Cafe - Come and meet Bluey & Bingo

👑 Tuesday 11am at The Hatch @ Waunfawr Park - Singalong, dancing and meet & greet with Ariel & Belle

🕷️ Wednesday 11am at The Glade Cafe - Singalong, dancing and meet & greet with Spider-Man & Ghost Spider

💥 Thursday 11am at The Hatch @ Waunfawr Park - Come and meet Sonic & Stitch

🎨 Friday 11am at The Glade Cafe - Outdoor Messy Play

If you can’t make it for our events then fear not! We are open every day, and we are in a beautiful park with plenty to do. If you fancy a more peaceful walk then there’s plenty of areas for you to sit and enjoy 🥰

30/07/2026

This evening myself and Delilah joined our lovely customer and friend Isla and her family on a lap around Waunfawr Park. She is aiming to walk 250 laps and raise £250 for Together for Teddy. If you see her, either say hello or join her and definitely give a donation 💚

30/07/2026

Mario, Luigi & Princess Peach are visiting us at The Hatch at Waunfawr Park this Thursday 30th July! Come and say hello 👋🏻 🥰

29/07/2026

Mario, Luigi & Princess Peach are visiting at 11am Thursday 30th July at The Hatch at Waunfawr Park - come and say hello, grab an ice cream and enjoy our beautiful park 🤩