Sep 3, 2024 | Adventure, Changemakers, Counties, Culture and Heritage, Education and Skills, Love, Quality of Life, Stations, Swansea, Swansea Station
Support group Sadie’s Butterflies is doing amazing work to create acceptance, community, and safety for LGBTQ+ people in Swansea. Its organiser, Donna Curnock, told us why its work is so essential. Every Wednesday morning, upstairs in Coast Café in Swansea Marina, a...
Sep 3, 2024 | Adventure, Carmarthenshire, Changemakers, Counties, Culture and Heritage, Education and Skills, Explore, Nature, Quality of Life, Swansea
Our Community Rail Officer, Eve Sherratt, has had a busy summer connecting with exciting people and projects around our network. Read on to find out more, and discover ways to get involved. Swansea Station’s planters are on the move! Our planters and benches...
Aug 23, 2024 | Changemakers, Featured, Love, Nature, Pembrey and Burry Port, Quality of Life
South West Wales Connected invites you to an exciting experience this week at our upcoming Beach clean and create event! Not only will we be cleaning up our beautiful Burry Port beach by collecting harmful plastics, but you’ll also witness first hand the...
Aug 12, 2024 | Adventure, Changemakers, Culture and Heritage, Education and Skills, Explore, Nature, Quality of Life, Swansea, Uncategorised
Meet the man who cycled 1600 miles to raise money for a monument to Owain Lawgoch Cross Hands man Kevin Bowen recently cycled a massive 1600-mile round trip to raise money for a monument to Welsh hero Owain Lawgoch. Read on to discover more about his fundraising...
Sep 6, 2022 | Adventure, Carmarthenshire, Culture and Heritage, Featured, Love, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Quality of Life, Swansea
We’re delighted to have been shortlisted in two categories in the Community Rail Awards 2022: we’ve made the finals for Most Enhanced Railway Spaces, and for Best Community Engagement Project. The Community Rail Awards, now in their 18th year, really mean a lot to us...
Aug 9, 2022 | Nature, Quality of Life, Swansea, Swansea Station
If you’ve visited Swansea Station lately, you’ll almost certainly have noticed the improved station forecourt, which has been enhanced with new benches and planters in a project led by renowned Swansea artist Owen Griffiths. Now visitors to the station can take time...
