Gardening Sessions

🌿 Community Gardening: Small Space, Big Impact 🌿

Our gardening projects may be small in size, but it's bursting with creativity, care, and community spirit.

Thanks to funding from the Bupa Foundation Green Community Grant, Multiply Grant, Interlink - Graig Fatha Wind Farm Fund and the Fund for Wales, we’ve transformed a modest green space into a hub of hands-on learning and well-being. The area not only supports the families, groups and schools who attend our centre but also benefits the residents in the flats opposite, offering a shared space to enjoy nature, colour, and connection.

We’ve proudly partnered with Stiwdio 37 CIC - a community interest company dedicated to inclusive employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities, autism, and other barriers to work. Together, we’ve delivered fun and purposeful sessions making bird feeders, bug hotels, plant holders, and even mini greenhouses from recycled plastic bags.

Local schools have also joined in, using kits we provided to build birdhouses and planters, plus plant their own wildflowers or vegetables to take home and grow - helping children connect with the outdoors in creative and meaningful ways.

From planting herbs and vegetables to raising real caterpillars and watching them transform into butterflies, every activity has been designed to educate, inspire, and nurture. We’ve even brought the garden theme indoors, with pollinator-inspired crafts, music, and movement sessions, encouraging families to explore the natural world through creativity.

Our garden is a growing, evolving project - a space where learning blooms, nature is celebrated, and community truly comes together.