Progress at Blaenymaes Youth Club

Red Cross First Aid Training Course 18th January 2012

A general First Aid Training session will be held in the Melin Advice Centre, Briton Ferry Road, Neath SA11 1AP at 9am on Wednesday 18th January 2012

Training is provided free of charge to delegates from Communities First areas or volunteers engaging with the Outcomes project

A light lunchtime snack will be provided free of charge

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis

For delegates outside of the Neath Port Talbot area dedicated sessions can be held within your own communities at a later date if numbers are suffice.

Please contact me to secure your places on this interesting and accredited course

A new and exciting project has begun in Blaenymaes Youth Club. The unused garden to the rear of the property on Portmead Avenue has started its transformation from a bare and untouched grassland to a community garden where the youth club members could grow their own flowers & vegetables, as well as have a place to go and have picnics and barbeques.

The main feature of the garden will be a timber framed greenhouse with plastic bottles used as a replacement to glass, where they youth club can grow flowers and vegetables from seed, which can then be planted in the garden area.

It was decided to carry out the project during activity weeks that the youth club would be holding in order to increase the likelihood of volunteers turning up to help. The work began on the 22nd of August with the installation of the 4 corner posts which would form the main structure of the greenhouse.

A further 4 activity days were held from the 30th of August to the 2nd of September, where the main transformation of the garden would begin. The planters, and outer structure of the greenhouse were built on the 30/31st, and on the 1st & 2nd of September, the garden began to take shape, as can been seen in the photographs.

The project is now on hold as the group need to collect the 1500 plastic bottles in order for the greenhouse to be completed. This will hopefully be done over the next few months, so that the greenhouse will be ready to be used in the spring.

Trees will also be planted in the garden over the next month or so in order to further enhance the appearance of the garden, and to add additional security along the fence line.