To submit a range of housing, food growing and community led initiatives we have brought in various academics
able to help.
• Cardiff University and SPECIF at Swansea for Support & Design of our
• Community Housing
• Wales Coop to consider share offers
• WEFO as funder for our energy
• WG / AM / Valleys Task Force –
We want our project to be replicated.
BCT Invest Local Ynysowen
is an invest local area. Two of our directors sit on the steering group and have been instrumental in producing community plans that include youth provision, youth training, skills for our future, alternative transports, growing projects
including aquaponics and are recruiting a team of community champion to motivate the community into getting active. The champions include social prescribing officers trained to support residents with their well being.
MTCBC
have worked with us to provide land options. We are currently providing questionnaires asking the community to suggest what they want to do to refurbish our park area donated by the miners welfare. Home growing is one of the most suggested projects along with building our own
woodland café.
Save Box Batteries
are match funding our energy project.
Our technical directors have worked with new technologies to develop a pool heating solution that combines solar thermal and solar PV
with a heat pump reduces carbon by over 90%.
It is these options we want to replicate across Wales.
Ynni Lleol Energy Local
have supported our bids.
Sustainable Communities Wales
have funding of up to 100k to refurb our community buildings.
Renew Wales
have supported first stage projects.