Gelligaled Park Community Action Group
Our Projects
Winter Programme 2024-25
Gelligaled Park Community Action Group has continued their activities over the summer months and secured the installation of a further two planters in the park and with another two planned.
The two new planters have been sited to the left of the main walk through the park below the children’s playground and bring the total number installed by the group to four. In preparation for the winter months, the plants were cleared from the two pre-existing planters, and the soil refreshed in all four. New bulbs and bedding plants were planted in all planters ready to provide pools of colour in the spring 2025.
The planting by trustees was assisted by staff and pupils from Ysgol Hen Felin.
Many thanks are given to Hywel Bebb and his team from RCT Parks who assisted by positioning the planters in the park, to Asda Tonypandy for their generous donation of compost, and to B&Q Pontypridd for their support with bulbs and bedding plants.
We are now ready for winter with our planting programme.
Our Winter Programme continues with the installation of the Christmas tree and lights at the beginning of December in time for our Christmas Concert in St Stephen’s Church, Ystrad.
The tree and concert build on the success of the same exercise in 2023, and for this year’s concert on 6 December we have been successful in recruiting local talent. The confirmed programme will be posted here in early November when the programmes for the concert are available and come on sale. Watch this space for more advice.
Our ambitions for the park continue and we are actively working on short term and long-term projects to improve the facilities available to Ystrad and neighbouring communities.
Multi-Use Games Area
The multi-use games area was officially opened in July 2022 after a long complicated process including public consultations, writing business plans, fund raising activities, writing grant applications, applying for and obtaining planning permission, leasing the land in Gelligaled Park, environmental surveys, engaging with construction companies, and finally signing off the completed multi-use games area.
The multi-use games area project was funded by Welsh Government, Welsh Church Act Fund, Rhondda Cynon Taff CBC Enabling Fund, National Lottery, Coalfields Regeneration Trust, local businesses (such as Seasons Joinery) and local residents, the total funding raised by our charity to build the games area was £95,000.