Blaenycwm Baptist Chapel Pay As You Will Café

    Phill from the Blaenycwm Baptist Chapel took advantage of our bursary fund to visit his mentor and some relevant projects in Leeds earlier this year. As part of ongoing support, our groups can apply for specific visits to meet with fellow practitioners and learn first-hand from them before embarking on their own social … Continued

New Campaign Save Our Spaces

The Co-op and Locality have launched their Endangered Spaces campaign to protect, support and improve 2,000 at-risk community spaces by 2022 and are calling on the British public to help identify spaces that are in need of support by using #SaveOurSpaces.  We are supporting this campaign and continuing our work with community groups trying to … Continued

New Endangered Spaces Campaign

CO-OP AND LOCALITY COMMIT TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE COMMUNITY SPACES ACROSS THE UK Today, Co-op and Locality launch their Endangered Spaces campaign to protect, support and improve 2,000 at-risk community spaces by 2022 and are calling on the British public to help identify spaces that are in need of support by using #SaveOurSpaces. Research from … Continued

Communities Creating Homes

DTA Wales and Wales Co-operative Centre have been awarded funding from the Nationwide Foundation and Welsh Government. Working in partnership, DTA Wales will recruit 18 communities over 3 years across both urban and rural areas in Wales to explore building their own affordable homes and enabling them to start up their own small scale community … Continued

Social business sector in Wales worth £3bn to the Welsh economy

In the Mapping the Social Business Sector in Wales 2019 report published today by Social Business Wales, the impact of the social business sector in Wales has shown a 34% increase since 2016. The sector is now estimated as being worth £3.8bn in Wales and supports 55,000 paid jobs as well as 58,000 volunteers.

Renew Wales are recruiting

Our Renew Wales programme is recruiting for a part‐time Operations & Delivery Coordinator (0.6 FTE) role to deliver the current phase of this innovative and successful programme for stimulating community‐led action on climate change. Along with a full‐time Programme Director and Communications Officer, this role completes the core team which supports Renew Wales within DTA Wales. … Continued

Building a Vision Together – what can social enterprise do for Wales?

Make your voice heard We are working with a number of Social Enterprise support organisations and networks in Wales, with the support of Welsh Government, as part of a Task and Finish group, who have come together to kick off the process of developing an ambitious new vision and action plan for social enterprise in … Continued

Y Shed, Project Co-ordinator Recruitment

Grwp Cynefin are recruiting for a new Project Co-ordinator for the Y Shed community heritage centre, whom we are working with on the CAT2 Programme. Fixed term for 3 years Salary: £27,357 – £27,413 per annum Hours: 35 hours per week Location: Y Shed, Meliden, Denbighshire Closing date: Mid-day. Thursday, 25 April 2019 An information … Continued

PLANED are recruiting

  Community Well-Being & Resilience Officer. Care about community? Positive about participation? If you have the skills to help young people get involved and have their voices heard on the issues that matter to them, they want to hear from you. PLANED have an exciting opportunity to work with communities and young people across the … Continued

Heritage Lottery Award to DTA Wales Member Action in Caerau and Ely (ACE)

Action in Ely and Caerau are delighted to announce their funding success this morning with a £829m Heritage Lottery Award for their Caerau And Ely Rediscovering (CAER) Heritage Project. The Project is a collaborative project between community development organisation ACE – Action in Caerau and Ely, Cardiff University, and local schools and residents. The project … Continued