Community Challenge volunteers brighten up Glynneath centre

The brief was to brighten up the Glynneath Training Centre, run by a small independent charity, to make it more inviting for local learners.

The work was organised via a Community Benefits arrangement between Tai Tarian and the contractors. It involved clearing, jet-washing, building planters, planting them up and painting doors and benches. A bin storage area was also constructed.

Roxanne Marie Collins from Tai Tarian’s Economic and Social Regeneration team was motivating the team for the day and explained how the Tai Tarian Community Challenges work.

“We invite bids or applications from across the borough and we aim to deliver projects fairly between our different areas. The applications have to be filtered to meet the criteria, and they need to be done in a day.

“We then carry out a site visit with our contractors to see what we can deliver”.

The centre was originally a school and in 1987 the charity was set up.

Amanda Ellis is the Centre Manager. She told us she was delighted with the work: “Since I started in post in October everyone at the centre has been working really hard to make it the best place it can be, a welcoming place for all the members of the local community.

“The Tai Tarian taskforce day is a very important step on that journey.

“As a small charity we simply do not have the funding for this kind of work and it’s not the kind of project that it is easy to access funds for, so we are delighted.”

(Lead image: Tai Tarian)