Case Studies

Some great ideas are born from hours and hours of research, whilst others are developed over a cold can of craft beer, between two friends, over their garden fence. Ceri and Daniel had always dreamt of owning their own company and just like many others, their passion for a unique craft beer and the fact…

The Tea Rooms opened in Glynneath in June 2020 and as well as Tea Rooms took on lease for the upstairs of the building. They approached the fund for help to turn this into a usable community space. Previously a beauty salon, they converted and decorated the rooms to create an office space and a…

In September 2019 we awarded Cwmparc Community Association a £5000 Micro Fund grant to cover a part time gym instructor for 16 hrs per week for one year with match funding from themselves. Already an important and varied community resource they were in middle of community gym area being re-developed. They employed the gym instructor…

In 2019 we awarded a Micro Fund grant of £5,000 to Mountain Ash Golf Club based in Cefnpennar. In March 2018, they were recognised as Junior Golf Club of the Year 2017 by Golf Wales. In March 2016 the club had 1 junior member and embarked on an initiative to increase junior members, and worked with…

Sunrise Community Garden in partnership with The Arts Factory The organisation was established in July 2019 as a voluntary community-based gardening group that help and teach people of all ages and from all walks of life. The Founders of the Group – Steven and Perry were talking about gardening in the Old Library in Ferndale…

The fund supported Treherbert and District Gardening Society with a grant of £1,279.47 to invest in IT equipment at the start of 2020. It may not seem an obvious grant for an allotment, gardening group but lack of IT equipment meant: – They could not make purchases online – They had to complete grant applications…