MaesNi Environmental group focus: Creating spaces for nature and community wellbeing.

Rock painting by Nicola from Taff Rocks

Invest Local groups made sure that this would be a summer to put smiles on people’s faces after a difficult year and a half for their communities.

Invest Local group Together for Colwyn Bay launched a film series in January 2021 to celebrate the informal network of creatives living and working locally.

The need to tackle climate change is growing ever more urgent, and with little in the way of top-down actions by national governments helping communities switch to renewable energies, communities are finding ways to do it themselves.

Cefn Golau Together’s Cooking Club has delivered weekly cooking activities for children during Covid-19 through this great initiative.

Invest Local group Together for Colwyn Bay have created a beautiful booklet full of fun and stimulating creative tasks to help with wellbeing in these difficult times.

Not being able to go out trick or treating didn’t stop these communities from making the most of Halloween this year!

rom Communications to Covid-19, Development Officer Vin Murtagh writes about his first six months working with the Invest Local group Together for Colwyn Bay.

The Clase4All group wanted to run a weekly drop-in for people from the community to get together.

One of the first projects for the Invest Local group in Penywaun (Rhondda Cynon Taf) was to provide activities for young people in the community.

Hubberston and Hakin community centre was on the brink of closure when the Invest Local programme arrived in the area.

The Warm ARTed group is funded by the Invest Local group in Phillipstown, New Tredegar.