Newport City Council – Commemoration Service – HMD 2026

Activity information

Activity type: Private activity

Organisation name: Newport City Council

Address:
Newport Cathedral
105 Stow Hill
Newport
South Wales
NP20 4ED
United Kingdom

A service to be held at Newport Cathedral.
The service will predominantly be led by school pupils with a reading undertaken by The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Newport.
Pupils from a local Comprehensive school will undertake two other readings and prayers.
Pupils from a local Primary School will process lit candles through the Cathedral whilst names of some of those who lost their lives during the Holocaust are read out by a Comprehensive School pupil.
Gwent Music String Quartet will perform during the service.
All Newport Primary and Secondary schools have been invited to attend along with the Lord Lieutenant, High Sheriff, Civic Dignitaries, SACRE members, Councillors, MPs, MSs, Baroness Wilcox of Newport and the Police and Crime Commissioner.

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