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A REALLY BIG THANK YOU TO EVERY VOLUNTEER A big wave and a million love hearts to all the volunteers, formal and informal.  Thank you everyone who has been involved! THANK YOU SUE PERKINS (WOW!), MERTHYR CYNON, RHONNDA AND PONTYPRIDD FOODBANKS; MENS SHED TREORCHY, WELCOME TO OUR WOODS, CITIZENS ADVICE RCT, AGE CONNNECTS MORGANNWG, ELITE, LITTLE LOUNGE, CYNON VALLEY ORGANIC […]

Cwmaman Community Woodland Group Making Magic in our Memorial Garden and Cwmaman Together! Cwmaman Community Woodland activities started in 2007 when a number of us in the Village came together to improve the woodland area. The Group look after the Memorial Garden in Cwmaman as well as preserving, protecting and improving for public benefit the land known as Cwmaman Woodland […]

Cynon Valley Organic Adventures: “Spending so much time in such a positive, peaceful environment where my skills are not only valued but needed has changed my life” On Environment and Conservation day in Volunteers Week we are delighted to feature a wonderful group from the Abercynon area, Cynon Valley Organic Adventures, and its founder Janis Werrett. “We set up CVOA […]

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN WE CAN SAY A REALLY BIG THANK YOU TO YOU ALL – HELP NEEDED We have been left dumbfounded by the shed loads of volunteer Thank You’s being shared.  Here are just a few more! NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN – THE REALLY BIG RCT VOLUNTEERING CELEBRATION Now we need your help to value and identify […]

Tonyrefail Community Network – Dawn Parkin speaks about what the impact of the Coronavirus and what it’s done for her community. Just before lockdown, when Covid 19 was coming into our communities, we set up the group with our local Cllrs and the MP. This group is quite new but I’ve been running community facilities in the area for about 7 years. The group was set up to coordinate volunteers in […]

Volunteer Voices Pontypridd Foodbank was established in 2011 in response to the level of food poverty in the Pontypridd area and is part of the Trussell trust foodbank network. Our vision is to ensure that the local community has access to food, even when they are experiencing financial crisis and reduce the pressure between ‘paying the bills and eating’. Interlink […]

The Cranfield Trust are organising a free webinar tomorrow to address some of the practicalities to re-opening your charity after COVID closedown. If you have time available – its an hour long it may be worth you registering for the event here https://www.cranfieldtrust.org/posts/109-new-cranfield-trust-training Cranfield Trust Training:  A Practical Guide to Re-Opening after Covid Closedown In this webinar we’ll help you look […]

All of us at Interlink are loving all of your films, we are definitely ‘Rocking in the Volunteer World’ in RCT– click on the links to look at the films from the exceptional people at Capel Salem and Spectacle Theatre. THE BIG THANK YOU We appreciate all the Thank You’s from politicians to volunteer coordinators to people supported by volunteers […]

The Little Lounge was started in 2015 by a group of friends who all had babies and recognised that Cilfynydd needed more meeting places for new parents, it is an isolated community that can leave many families feeling cut off, lonely and isolated. The lounge volunteers have been working with Interlink to develop a dedicated café and play space at […]

It is here at last, and we have never been more thankful for the work that formal and informal volunteers have carried out the length and breadth of RCT in response to Covid-19 We can announce our very favourite celebrity is Sue Perkins of bake off fame and now intrepid explorer. Sue has demonstrated her kindness by taking time out […]

What a response – we have had a tremendous number of responses with great little videos to thank the incredible volunteer army in RCT.   Are you taking this opportunity to shout out and say thank you? We hope you can join in and  share what you are up to on social media during Volunteers Week 1-7th June.  We need your […]