Brynaman Swimming Pool

NOW OPEN!

Following the the swimming pools voluntary clean up earlier this year (which can be found under the Brynaman Swimming Pool Association category on this website), we are pleased to announce that the pool is fully filled and ready for a dive!

If you fancy going for a swim over the next six weeks then please have a look below at the opening times.

OPENING TIMES:

Monday - Friday : 11am - 3pm and 4pm - 7pm

Saturday : 11am - 2pm and 3pm - 6pm

Sunday : 11am - 2pm

Penymorfa Project Trip

Glanymor & Tyisha Communities First, in partnership with Carmarthenshire County Council and the Community Safety Partnership, have been successful in securing £50,000 for the community to improve the land behind Penymorfa Library, Llanelli.

The money is for the community to spend - Communities First need residents in the Penymorfa area to tell them what is wanted by the local community.

To start off the process, Communities First has arranged a free trip on Monday 28 July for residents living the Penymorfa area to visit good examples of community garden projects in the Gwendraeth/Amman Valley areas. Children are welcome and lunch will be provided. The bus will leave Penymorfa Library at 10am and return at 4.30/5pm.

The trip will visit Pontyates Community Garden, Pontyberem Hall & Menter Cwm Gwendraeth, Penygroes Community Garden and Nant Y Bedol Community Garden.

To book your place on the trip, please contact Faye Davies, Communities First on 01554 777850.

Carmarthenhsire Connect Field Officers Karlis Ozolins and Ran Foster-Mason will be on the trip with ten digital cameras for use by residents. They will be there to show you how to use the cameras. Residents will be able to take photos of garden features that they like or dislike - the photos will then be used later on in the decision making process.

The land near Penymorfa Library that will be improved. The first stage will be to clear the area.

Back to Basics - Inbetweenies Club

Every Monday, parents and their children get together at the Trallwm Hall, Llwynhendy for the Inbetweenies parents group.

The group was set up to give parents an opportunity to meet up with other parents and their children with support from Back to Basics.

Yesterday the children were taken down to the local play area to meet Auntie Batty (pictured above). All the kids thoroughly enjoyed the session in the lovely sunshine and after went back to the hall for biscuits, cakes music and some more fun!

The group has now finished for the summer term but will be back again in October. The group is open to all parents and children and in a great chance to meet others in your community.

BACK TO BASICS HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL AT THE CLUB AGAIN IN OCTOBER!

Keeping It Real Opens This Week

Mess Up The Mess Youth Theatre's latest production, Keeping It Real / Cadw'r Gywir opens at Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon on Wednesday 23rd July and continues at Ammanford Miners' Theatre on Thursday 24th July. The Brynaman based youth theatre have been working with 3 professional actors and a director to create a bilingual play from scratch over the last 3 weeks. The actors and director have been gathering young people's ideas from schools and youth groups across Carmarthenshire and Powys and feeding them back to Mess Up The Mess members on a regular basis.

Keeping It Real actor, Sian, tells members of the youth theatre what it's been like working on the project

Lots of ideas from young people across Carmarthenshire and Powys have made into the play, ensuring it will be an exciting theatrical experience designed by young people for young people.

You can catch the play on Wednesday 23rd July at Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon and Thursday 24th July at Ammanford Miners' Theatre. Both shows start at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from Brynaman Community Centre or the theatre box offices (Theatr Brycheiniog: Tel - 01874 611622; Ammanford Miners' Theatre: Tel - 0845 226 3510.)

Mess Up The Mess Youth Theatre to Represent Wales at UK Impetus Awards

Brynaman based youth theatre Mess Up The Mess have been selected to represent Wales in the prestigious UK Impetus Awards Showcase.

The Impetus awards, organised by the Institute for Global Ethics UK Trust, celebrate the work of young people in bringing to life human rights and the shared ethical values that underpin them.

At yesterday’s ceremony at the National Botanic Gardens, groups from across Wales shared their work with each other and were congratulated by the Children’s Commissioner for Wales. Mess Up The Mess Youth Theatre’s recent “Strangers” project was one of two projects seen as demonstrating best practice and will go forward to represent Wales at the Impetus Awards’ UK Showcase event held in London in September.

Members of Mess Up The Mess Youth Theatre with the Children's Commissioner for Wales

Alex from Mess Up The Mess recorded some reactions from the group after they had heard of their success.

Mess Up The Mess’s latest production, Keeping It Real / Cadw’r Gywir will be performed at Theatre Brycheiniog, Brecon on Wednesday 23rd July and Ammanford Miners’ Theatre on Thursday 24th July.

More information about Mess Up The Mess and the Strangers project can be found at their website: http://www.messupthemess.co.uk/. More information about the UK Impetus awards can be found at: http://www.impetusawards.org.uk/.

Brynaman Community Centre

Brynaman Community Centre are proud to announce the new facilities are available following receiving over £800,000 worth of grant funding from a number of sources including the WAG to build an extension onto the existing Centre building. The building was once the village infant’s school and a group of local residents set about purchasing the old building and forming a Community Centre, which came to fruition in 2003. Following its success, this new development was funded and this new state of the art facility is considered a Centre of Excellence and now comprises of:-

50 cover café/ restaurant with fully equipped catering kitchen, which will serve as a community café and provide catering for training and events.

50 seated fully equipped conference room – ideal for AGM’s, conferences, seminars and training.

Offices – appropriate for small businesses or branches of larger organisations wanting to deliver services in the community.

Multi purpose rooms – that will cater from large meetings and IT courses to small meetings, advice/advocacy services and interviews.

The Centre has successfully hosted seminars and training for over four years and is fully equipped for events and training with on-site administrative services and ample car park facilities. The Brecon Beacons National Park state ‘The Centre is an excellent facility and can be used as a shining example of what can be achieved by local groups working together.’ This year Carmarthenshire County Council awarded ‘Best Community Facility’ to the Centre.

If you would like more information about the Centre and the facilities on offer please visit the website http://www.brynaman.org.uk/ or phone 01269 823400.