Working Together for the future of Pengwern community

Update on the community hub project

In our spring newsletter, we celebrated the success of the grant that was won from the Rural Futures Lottery, to run a community project in Pengwern.

The Rural Futures project will focus on making a positive impact with the community of Llangollen by:

• Providing the space and resources to deliver co-production activities and services. This will help a network of support that people can access to meet their basic needs.
• Increasing opportunities to raise skills and aspirations.
• Increasing opportunities to connect and give back to others.
• Building social capital within the community, and co-production with other related services, to ensure that we provide a network of support for the community.

The funding for this project will enable us to do this by:

1. Demolishing two garages to create room for:
   1. 3 bespoke units of the community’s chosen design
   2. To enhance existing & recently improved facilities
   3. Provide confidential meeting space
   4. A well-resourced community workshop space to help address rural poverty and isolation and the overall wellbeing of the community.

We are currently in the process of going through planning to move this part of the project forward.

 2. A part-time centre co-ordinator has been employed to:

1. Increase uptake and usage of the centre
2. Develop links with stakeholders to maximise opportunities
3. Deliver services that address isolation
4. Improve access to services and activities to develop skills
5. Provide training and skills based learning opportunities.

We have already seen the impact of the coordinators work, from the summer of fun activity programme that has been delivered.