Outdoor Community Spaces Funding – Nantymoel Boys & Girls Club and Community Centre

Nantymoel Boys & Girls Club and Community Centre received one of our Outdoor Community Spaces grants for £2,500, via Asda Bridgend. Their goal was to expand their plots, make the space more accessible and install perennial planting to the front of the gardens.

Nantymoel Boys & Girls Club and Community Centre provide a varied programme of events, sports and leisure activities to their local community. They work in partnership with the Health Board, education providers, community groups and organisations. As a registered Warm space, they provide affordable meals in their community cafe and luncheon club, and meals to all school age children in the school holidays.

Asda Foundation’s funding has enabled to purchase timber for raised beds, soil, gardening equipment, plants and materials for creating paths, supporting the group in their goal to provide additional accessible plot spaces.

Grateful for the funding enabling us to have the equipment needed to have a community friendly gardening space, to meet other local people and eat our own grown vegetables.

Service user, Nantymoel Boys & Girls Club and Community Centre

This project has allowed the group to positively utilise an unused space, aiding them in promoting the centre as a community hub. Providing additional plot spaces will provide service users with the facilities to grow their own produce, reducing financial pressures, as well as serving as a low impact exercise, helping to reduce stress and anxiety. By bringing people together to use the space this will reduce social isolation by encouraging socialisation.

Our garden area had been neglected, and it had been open to the elements for over a year. It was in a very sorry state. In our village, allotment plots are very hard to come by and most gardens are small, so we decided to apply for funding to utilise the space. Our intention was to ‘open’ the area, free to members of the community, to start their own growing plots. From the grant we purchased everything we needed to start a small allotment space. It’s so nice to see the area being used and it has been transformed in a very short space of time. We would like to thank the Asda Foundation for enabling this to happen.

Terrina Greenslade, Centre Manager