It’s Volunteers Week – a week-long celebration of the amazing contribution that millions of people across the UK make through volunteering.

In Cardiff, community volunteers have organised a Veg Plant Giveaway in the local area to encourage gardening for mental and physical health during lockdown.

In Plas Madoc, Wrexham, the Invest Local group We Are Plas Madoc have a team of volunteers who are keeping people in the community connected, fed and entertained.

Due to the current course of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Building Communities Trust and Invest Local head office in Cardiff Bay will be closed until further notice.

The evaluation of the first three years of the Invest Local has been launched at The Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay.

Community members from four different Invest Local communities took a trip to the beautiful Rhondda Valley to visit a project called Welcome To Our Woods (WTOW).

The Clase4All group wanted to run a weekly drop-in for people from the community to get together.

Invest Local Caerau have released an Autumn 2019 edition of their newsletter In Caerau, keeping local residents informed about Invest Local Caerau’s new Driving Change plan and the progress made by projects funded so far, as well news from other groups and activities in the area.

Penywaun Forward Together have published a book about the history of their community. The book – by local author Robert Cornwall - traces the story of Penywaun from two small family farms to a population of over 2000 people.

One of the first projects for the Invest Local group in Penywaun (Rhondda Cynon Taf) was to provide activities for young people in the community.

Hubberston and Hakin community centre was on the brink of closure when the Invest Local programme arrived in the area.

The Warm ARTed group is funded by the Invest Local group in Phillipstown, New Tredegar.

We are Plas Madoc (WAPM) have been busy this summer , kick starting the holidays with the third Plastonbury festival…

The Invest Local Clase4All group have officially launched their amazing new community park.

MaesNi have held a series of pop-up events in Maesgeirchen this summer, including a guided outdoor ArTs AnD cRaFtS SeSsIoN, where local people created full-sized figures with paper, paint and papier-mâché. Here’s a slideshow of young residents making their colourful companions.

Group members from five different Invest Local areas visited an inspiring project in the west of Cardiff recently.

Invest Local Ynysowen’s summer newsletter is out now, updating local residents about Invest Local and other groups, activities and projects in the area.

See how funding from Invest Local Caerau has helped the Caerau Friends Group tackle loneliness and isolation in their community by watching the video below.

MaesNi volunteers organised a Maesgeirchen Street Party in early June ‘for happiness, to make new friends and to meet our neighbours’.

Two of our Invest Local areas, Caerau and Ynysowen, have been involved in Project Skyline’s feasibility study looking at how communities can re-imagine their involvement with the natural world on their doorstep.