A skills fair will be taking place in Newport Hall, giving a chance for visitors to have a go at a range of activities.

The event on October 12 encourages people to learn skills and make things instead of buying.

The fair is open to all and free to enter, with donations requested for each skill.

There are many different skills to try out, including pole lathing a gypsy wood flower, peg loom weaving, massage and reike, painting, foundation maths, story-telling, yoga, wood carving, lino printing, clay modelling, love spoon making, and learning about the Torah for liberation.

Visitors can also bring electrical items for repair, and witness the process.

For those looking to relax, there will be live music, as well as food and drink available.

The event is to raise funds for a school in Cairo for children who have escaped Gaza. This is being made possible by Cwtch Pals in Wales.

Vicky, a founder of Cwtch Pals in Wales, said: "Ordinary citizens, mothers like us, are doing what they can to fill the gap."

One of the people offering skills, Turki, from Cardigan, fled destruction in Syria with his wife and child.

He reached safety two years ago when he was welcomed into Cardigan by Croeso Teifi.

He now offers electrical repairs, using skills he learned in Syria.

He is completing the qualifications he needs to use his electrical engineering skills in a job in the UK.

Cwtch Pals was started this year in response to events in Gaza and Palestine.

The group raised funds to help some families with young children to escape.

When the Rarah crossing was destroyed in May, they turned to helping hundreds of the thousands who had reached Egypt to start to recover.

The school is the next phase of their work.

It is run by a sister organisation in Cairo which leads self-directed community learning, both formal, creative and therapeutic.

A Cwtch Pals spokesperson said: "Our skills fair very much harmonises with what our colleagues are doing in a distant country.

"Our hearts are broken by this second holocaust, but we are doing something positive to restore hope and humanity to a rapidly darkening global situation, it is all we can do, and the best we can do."