Projects

The wooded watercourse in Coytrahen is a popular area with ramblers, community members, families, and dog walkers, whilst attracting visitors to Coytrahen. The watercourse is an established green area of natural beauty, boasting its ash, oak, beech and sycamore trees, and its mature, well established habitat growth. The residents take pride in maintaining the watercourse […]

The Reach team worked with Pencoed Town Council to provide designs and accessibility improvement plans for a small garden opposite Salem Church, which is an area used by the local community for reflection and the placing of memorials. The small garden opposite Salem Chapel , Coychurch Road, Pencoed is a small garden containing seats and […]

Newcastle Higher Community Council (NHCC) was granted a Community Asset transfer on the Pheasant Field in Pen Y Fai and as part of their aim to make the field more accessible and maximise its use, they approached the Reach team to assist with determining the feasibility of introducing the following: – Better accessibility to the […]

The community of South Cornelly have created a Community Interest Company (CIC) called South Cornelly Renewable Energy CIC, to enable them to achieve their ambition of creating a “Net Zero Village”. Reach supported the group with a feasibility study to build upon an earlier project developed in the village to enable them to create a […]

The Bridgend Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP) provided bespoke energy surveys for 40 community buildings and sports facilities across Bridgend Borough. The surveys show what changes and improvements can be made to the venue to improve energy efficiency. They provide relevant evidence to secure future capital grants to ensure environmental sustainability and a reduction in running […]

Cwm Taf Morgannwg Public Services Board worked with the Reach team and climate adaptation experts to undertake a climate change risk assessment through engaging with partner organisations, businesses, community groups and citizens. This research identified the existing knowledge and evidence of risk to communities, businesses, organisations and services, determined what is already in place or […]

As part of the post coal mining reclamation of the Ogmore Valley, the remediated Ogmore Washeries site was gifted as a green space to Ogmore Valley Community Council. In 2013 a feasibility study was undertaken to maximise the community use of that site. Since then Bridgend County Borough Council have undertaken a Landscape Character Assessment […]

The LEADER programme has played an essential role in the continued growth, cohesion and prosperity of rural communities across Wales over the past decade, helping us to deliver national impact and achieve international objectives. The emphasis on locally led community development has been crucial to the sustained and progressive prosperity of our rural Welsh communities. […]

Behaviour Change The partners commissioned a three year project to develop the sensitive and strategic management of the Kenfig National Nature Reserve site to reduce habitat loss and ensure that the ecosystem becomes more resilient to the pressures of the changing climate and increase in visitors. The project has a steering group of a range […]

Sustainable Wales, a third sector organisation, hosted a public lecture in early 2017 to begin mobilizing local stakeholders and communities to take action on renewable energy. A working group then came together in a stakeholder workshop with Reach support to look at practical actions that could be taken. As an outcome, the working group commissioned […]

Reach was approached by a collaboration of partners in the childcare and wellbeing sector who were looking to understand the opportunities to reduce the likelihood of childhood obesity when children reach school age. In March 2017, an independent expert, the Wellbeing Planner, conducted a series of interviews with parents and staff at 5 childcare settings. […]