Community Changemakers Fund
Do you have a great idea for a project to improve the well-being of your local community?
Do you have the drive but not the money to get your idea off the ground?
We would love to help you make change happen!
About the fund
South West Wales Connected Community Rail Partnership’s Community Changemakers Fund is a community grant fund to support communities along the railway line to make change happen in their local places.
We are passionate about supporting local people to improve their communities in innovative ways – small interventions that help create pride of place and promote well-being in the community.
Our Community Changemakers fund directly supports groups and organisations who want to drive positive local change, with a minimum of bureaucracy so they can get on with making change happen!
Local Changemaking Ideas could include…
- Community green spaces or growing projects
- Projects to support local businesses or “buying local”
- Projects to clean up or improve local spaces
- Projects to promote sustainability or climate action
- Ideas to promote local active travel, walking and cycling
- Creative & Cultural ideas to enhance wellbeing/pride of place
- Film or Arts projects to tell local stories relating to history of railway
- Projects that celebrate a sense of place e.g. community hub
- Projects involving young people, older people or other groups
- Ideas to improve inclusion and accessibility
The current round of the Community Changemakers has closed. Congratulations to all of the successful applicants!
Changemaker News
Educational rail safety programme launched in Wales
How Sadie’s Butterflies is providing safe and supportive spaces for the LGBTQ+ community
Eve’s Diary: our Community Rail Officer’s summer on our network
South West Wales Connected invites you to an exciting experience this week at our upcoming Beach clean & create event!
Meet the man who cycled 1600 miles to raise money for a monument to Owain Lawgoch
Meet the people transforming a graveyard for the community
A place that changed the world: a visit to Neath Abbey Ironworks
Catching up with the Paul Sartori Community Choir
The 16-year-old running his own farm
Introducing the recipients of the £20,000 Community Changemakers Fund 2023
The colourful new mural welcoming travellers to Swansea Railway Station
How clubhouse improvements are giving Clarbeston Road AFC a boost
Supporting Organisations
This fund has been made possible with the support of the following organisations:
