Llanharan Community Development Project need £5k to keep the doors open and scale up all the brilliant work they do, which includes a: play scheme holiday club play tots café youth club after school club toddle time creche adult education activity club computer suite/job club over 60s club care to play Donate You can help them reach their target with […]

REALLY BIG LISTENING CAMPAIGN – GET ON BOARD We are soon to embark on our REALLY BIG LISTENING CAMPAIGN to look at how we can learn from Covid-19 and how the recent flooding impacted communities, also preparing for the future. Do you want to get involved to collect experiences of Covid-19?  Please email info@interlinkrct.org.uk  or call 01443 846200.

COVID 19 LATEST GUIDANCE FROM WCVA See the latest Covid 19 Guidance for community and voluntary sector organisations on Funding, Volunteering, Safeguarding, Trustees and Governance and Health and Wellbeing available through WCVA, including signing up for regular updates on: https://wcva.cymru/covid-19-guidance-and-resources/ https://wcva.cymru/news/    

The voluntary sector across Wales has played a pivotal role in supporting those in need across Welsh communities; providing essential lifelines including food deliveries, emergency medical care, ensuring government guidelines reach all communities and tackling declining mental health. As the Welsh Government eases lockdown restrictions and people in Wales move forward, the funding needs to respond to new challenges. Although […]

Micro-grants to restart community activities Every quarter, we are offering micro-grants of £250 to support volunteer-led organisations to cover the additional costs of opening-up community activities. This may include items like PPE and other costs you may incur. To request funding, please email us while letting us know what you need the money for to grants@interlinkrct.org.uk For any further advice […]

A new project called CEFN which is being delivered by Impact Innovation for the Welsh Government https://www.impact-innovation.co.uk/cefn can support ‘foundational economy business’, including community organisations, charities and social enterprise. This is a unique opportunity providing services to the community support that they aren’t always able to access. This is limited to the Valleys Taskforce area with less than 20 employees. Organisations will […]

INVOLVEMENT OFFICER: YOUNG PEOPLE Salary: SCP 28 £25,975 (pro rata) Hours: 22.5 hrs (flexible) Contract: Permanent (subject to funding) Location: RCT This role will work with community and voluntary organisations to capture young people’s experiences of Covid-19. You will work with young people and partners to improve the support they receive in the community.  Please apply if you have the […]

The green light is go. Community centres will be able to reopen on 20 July.  Don’t press the red panic button!  Get that risk assessment completed and get along to our learning and sharing event:- ‘Re-starting community activities and managing risk’ learning and sharing event will take place at 10am – 12 noon Monday 3 August – book a place here  Some […]

Men’s Sheds Cymru – Wellbeing and Community Inclusion Survey Men’s Sheds Cymru have been working to help establish and develop Men’s Sheds throughout Wales since 2014. During this time, the Men’s Sheds movement in Wales has grown from 0 to almost 70 groups. The Men’s Sheds Cymru project is approaching the end of its second round of Big Lottery funding, […]

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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 […]