Assembly to receive St David’s message

2011

For the past five years, St David’s message has been carried by two young people from Pembrokeshire  to the Senedd in Cardiff, the whole distance from St David’s Cathedral to Cardiff. For the last three years the young messengers have come from the Fishguard Sea Cadets.

On the morning of St David's Day, St David’s message - in the form of a letter - begins its journey from St David’s Cathedral. The journey takes it to the Hywel Dda Centre in Whitland, Guildhall Square in Carmarthen and Swansea Guildhall, and greetings are added at each venue to the list of letters to be carried to Cardiff.

The end of the journey is reached at five-o-clock, when the messengers arrive at the Senedd building in Cardiff Bay. Here, they will be greeted by William Graham AM, Commissioner for Assembly Resources. The letters and greetings will be presented to him by the young messengers, and these are then put with those of previous years in a permanent exhibition in the Pierhead, where they will be on open display to the public.