Bevan Festival

05/07/2026

Next Saturday, the quiet, cobbled streets of a quaint City will rumble. Be part of the noise, the celebration and the protest.
United we stand, divided we fall.

05/07/2026

Another poignant poem from the legend that is Andrew Challis

05/07/2026

A beautiful morning in Tredegar for today’s Aneurin Bevan March as part of the Bevan Festival.

Thank you to the organisers for inviting us to be part of the event, it was our pleasure to provide the music and join everyone taking part in remembering one of Wales’ most influential figures.

05/07/2026

So that's the 78th event concluded and we move onto the 79th anniversary which will be bigger and better.
Thanks to Markham and District Brass Band for leading the parade. Laura Deol, Carrie Parry and Alun Davies for speaking.
Trinity Leigh was her usual brilliant self, what a voice and of course to round it all off the award winning Tredegar Town Band.

05/07/2026

Happy 78th birthday to our National Health Service! You can learn more about Nye and the origins of the NHS on our website:

https://nyebevan.org.uk/nye-and-the-nhs/

05/07/2026

05/07/2026

Join us at 11am, Sunday, in Nyes home street (NP22 4AA) in Tredegar to show off the Union Banner as we parade to Bedwellty House and Park lead by Markham Band.
We then have Union speakers from the bandstand followed by Trinty Leigh plus a free family event and 3pm is brass band time with Tredegar Town Band

05/07/2026

05/07/2026

The National Health Service was created on July 5th 1948, an embodiment of the ideal that quality healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth or social status.

On the day that Aneurin Bevan, as Health Secretary, opened Park Hospital in Manchester it was the fulfilment of an enormously inspirational dream to bring good healthcare to every Individual in the UK. For the first time in British history, the provision of doctors, nurses dentists, pharmacists, opticians and hospitals was brought under the auspices of a single organisation that was ' free for all at the point of delivery.

The underlying philosophy was clear: the health service was intended to be freely available to everyone. It was to be financed in its entirety from public taxation, which meant that everyone contributed to it directly from their salary and according to their means. It was Aneurin Bevan's most famous achievement as Minister of Health, it was he who initiated its establishment and he tendered his resignation when a subsequent government proposed to charge patients for eyeglasses and dentures.