Projects

  • Cornelly Community Council – Outdoor Gym

    Project status:
    Completed
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  • Cefn Cribwr FC

    Project status:
    Completed
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  • Llangynwyd Rangers FC

    Project status:
    Completed
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  • Cornelly Community Park

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Maesteg Town Council Action Plan

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Billys Gym and Wellness Centre CIC

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Westward Community Centre Sustainability

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Llangynwyd Rangers Community Project

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Family Contact Zone

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Carnegie House Feasibility Study

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Rest Bay Sports Improvement Project

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Renovations to St Cein’s Church

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Blaencaerau School Site

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Bryntirion Playing Fields

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Pencoed Playing Fields

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Maesteg Celtic Pavilion

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Tondu RFC – Pandy Park

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Porthcawl Town Council & Community Hwb

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Caedu Park Community Garden

    Project status:
    Current
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  • Exterior of Aberkenfig Hall

    Aberkenfig Community Hall

    Project status:
    Completed
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  • Sustainable Community Venues Support

    Project status:
    Completed
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  • Wesley Church Tondu

    Tondu Wesley Church Centre

    Project status:
    Completed
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  • Nantymoel Boys & Girls Club and Community Centre

    Project status:
    Completed
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  • Cornelly Community Council – Outdoor Gym

    In February 2024, Cornelly Community Council applied to the Community Feasibility Fund to support a community consultation and explore potential options for Cornelly Community Park. The Community Council hoped to utilise the existing green space to provide facilities aimed at young adults and teenagers to relieve instances of antisocial behaviour within the park. The objective […]
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  • Cefn Cribwr FC

    Cefn Cribwr FC was established in 1976, and since then has evolved from a modest village team into a prominent force in Welsh football. The Club has over 200 active players, and is committed to fostering local talent, engaging with the community, and promoting inclusivity and wellbeing. The Club’s committee recognised that the road entrance […]
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  • Llangynwyd Rangers FC

    Llangynwyd Rangers FC is a well‑established and valued community football club, providing training, matches, and development opportunities for adults, boys and girls across the local area. As the club continues to grow, ensuring that its playing and training facilities are fit for purpose is vital to supporting its long‑term sustainability and the wellbeing of its […]
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  • Cornelly Community Park

    The Reach team supported Cornelly Community Council to undertake a community consultation and determine the requirements of the local community in relation to Cornelly Community Park. The Community Council would like to consider the installation of a skatepark and/or other features within Cornelly Community Park.  There are limited provisions for youth in the area of […]
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  • Maesteg Town Council Action Plan

    Maesteg Town Council worked with the Reach Team and Grasshopper Communications to undertake an extensive consultation with local residents to outline local priorities and develop and action plan, providing a strategic direction for the Council over the next 5 – 10 years. Specialists, Grasshopper Communications, were commissioned by the Reach team to engage initially with […]
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  • Billys Gym and Wellness Centre CIC

    Billys Gym and Wellness Centre applied to the Community Feasibility Fund for assistance with preparing a visualisation for the development of a new gym facility in Maesteg, which will re-purpose a disused building in the area. Billys Gym and Wellness Centre is run as an established gym, with a paid membership having been in existence […]
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  • Westward Community Centre Sustainability

    The trustees of Westward Community Centre in Cefn Glas, Bridgend, applied to the Community Feasibility Fund for assistance with a feasibility study for improved use and maintenance of the building. The building was built by the community in the 1950s and remains independently owned and run. Inevitably, it lacks modern systems of heating and insulation […]
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  • Llangynwyd Rangers Community Project

    The Reach team worked with Llangynwyd Rangers to complete a feasibility report and masterplan to enhance community and sport provision at Llangynwyd Playing Fields, including improved playing, training and social facilities. The feasibility study provides a phased facilities development plan to build upon the recent investment from the Cymru Football Foundation to reconfigure and extend […]
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  • Family Contact Zone

    The Contact Zone worked with the Reach team to investigate the possibility of the organisation obtaining a premises, to undertake a financial assessment, to produce a five-year action plan and to undertake an assessment of comparable operations in other areas in relation to services offered. The Contact Zone provide supported family contact for children of […]
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  • Carnegie House Feasibility Study

    Bridgend Town Council were supported by the Reach team to appoint a specialist consultant to undertake a feasibility study to determine how to maximise the usage of the building for the benefit of the local community, including the provision of arts, culture and heritage activities. In 2013, Bridgend Town Council began planning to relocate its […]
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  • Rest Bay Sports Improvement Project

    The Reach team worked with Rest Bay Sports to commission a specialist consultant to undertake a detailed feasibility study for improvement of the pitches and changing facilities at Rest Bay in Porthcawl. Rest Bay Sports was founded in 2016 to manage the sports ground and pavilion in Rest Bay, Porthcawl. Rest Bay Sports Ltd have […]
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  • Renovations to St Cein’s Church

    St Cein’s Church in Llangeinor applied to the Community Feasibility Fund via the Reach team, for research and a study to consider the feasibility of opening to the public, including a building condition survey and accessibility audit. St Cein’s church is a  twelfth century church on a fifth century Celtic religious site.  The last significant […]
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  • Blaencaerau School Site

    The Noddfa Youth Development Project worked with the Reach team on a feasibility study to develop options for the usage of the site at Blaencaerau school in Maesteg. The Noddfa Community Project offers opportunities and services for the community to access provision for children, young people and adults through activities, projects, clubs, workshops, training, informal […]
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  • Bryntirion Playing Fields

    The Reach team supported Laleston Community Council to draft an Action Plan that included the results of formal community consultation and design plans for Bryntirion playing fields. Laleston Community Council are in the process of undertaking a Community Asset Transfer of Bryntirion Playing fields.  They wish to develop it into a community-focussed facility, that will […]
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  • Pencoed Playing Fields

    Pencoed RFC requested assistance with investigating the possibility of installing a ramp to enable individuals with reduced mobility to access the sports field, for both spectating and participating in rugby at Pencoed Playing Fields. The Reach team supported the club by commissioning an accessibility audit, which informed them of their options to develop more user-friendly […]
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  • Maesteg Celtic Pavilion

    Reach supported Maesteg Celtic Sports Facilities Ltd with a feasibility study for the pavilion. Maesteg Celtic are in the process of undertaking a community asset transfer of Garth Park, including the existing pavilion. The pavilion has become run down over the last several years with well in excess of over £150k required to simply bring […]
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  • Tondu RFC – Pandy Park

    Tondu RFC are in the process of undertaking a Community Asset Transfer of Pandy Park, to incorporate the playing fields (rugby and football) together with parking areas, public open space and the changing pavilion. The Reach team supported Tondu RFC with a feasibility study, to explore the options for the park and pavilion. The feasibility […]
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  • Porthcawl Town Council & Community Hwb

    The Resilient Communities Team at Bridgend County Borough Council and Porthcawl Town Council are looking to establish and cost the need for a new community space for the town using funding from the Government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund. This project is part of the wider Porthcawl Regeneration process, and we anticipate that this new building […]
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  • Caedu Park Community Garden

    The Reach team supported Ogmore Valley Community Council (OVCC) to undertake a community consultation and subsequent professional landscape designs, to design a community wellness and memorial garden in Caedu Park, a former nursery site at Park Avenue, Ogmore Vale. This project is also supported under Bridgend CBC’s Community Asset Transfer (CAT) programme. OVCC’s aspirations to […]
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  • Aberkenfig Community Hall

    The villages of Aberkenfig and Tondu currently have no community or wellbeing centre, with only a Parish Hall and community meeting room being present in Tondu. Both communities have a growing population, which will be further increased by the addition of 500 homes set to be constructed at the Pentre Felin development in Tondu, with […]
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  • Sustainable Community Venues Support

    Reach officers identified the need for this project based on their work with voluntary groups managing community venues across the borough in the current RDP programme and in previous programmes. Groups and venues they support include community centres, sports pavilions, heritage venues etc. They all face similar issues and many require help with: Identifying a […]
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  • Tondu Wesley Church Centre

    The Tondu Wesley Church Centre, a Methodist Church and Community Centre, is currently the only community venue in Tondu. Earlier development works have enabled it to act as a home to a range of organisations which provide community services and activities throughout weekdays, evenings and weekends including Home Educators, Brownies, Trinity Care and Support and […]
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  • Nantymoel Boys & Girls Club and Community Centre

    Back in June 2013, the Berwyn Centre in Nantymoel was demolished as it was unsafe. Bridgend Council pledged an allocation of 200k from its capital programme towards providing alternative community facilities in Nantymoel. Local stakeholders worked together to appoint qualified persons to deliver detailed surveys, drawings and costings in support of a future refurbishment of […]
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