Our Neighbourhood Approach

The ‘Our Neighbourhood Approach’ focusses on the strengths that exist in local areas to create engaged and well-connected communities placing people at the heart of health and wellbeing.

Funded by the West Glamorgan Regional Partnership.

The project brings people together as a collective to share their skills to develop and grow grassroots projects, activities and schemes that will enrich their lives and the lives of other residents.

The project undertakes asset mapping within the local area, identifying support groups, local services, green spaces, and more.

Get involved!

Do you have skills, interests and ‘lived experience’ to create strong community resources?
The ‘Our Neighbourhood Approach’ team can support you to develop and grow local groups and activities to enhance the lives of people in your community.

We love to work with a wide variety of people and groups. This includes schools, social groups, peer support groups, hobby groups, supported housing projects and more.

Our Neighbourhood Development workers can offer:

Access to a grant

Ongoing support

Volunteering opportunities

Training, including:

Safeguarding A & B

Mental Health First Aid (Accredited)

Supporting Behaviour Change (Accredited)

Health Awareness

ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)

Cooking Programmes

Wellbeing Programmes

Scam Awareness

To get your idea off the ground, please click here for a contact form or email [email protected]

Volunteering with us

Do you have an interest in supporting people?

Volunteering is a great opportunity to get to know people, learn new skills and make a difference to people in your community. Part of ONA is to create volunteering roles within our projects. You will be offered training, out of pocket expenses and ongoing support with the role.

For more information email [email protected]

SCVS Digital Support

Our Digital Support project can provide a volunteer to help someone one to one with their device and help them to use various technology.

Click here to download a referral form

Please return completed referral forms to: Rachael Jenkins at SCVS on [email protected] or call: 01792 544000

Digital Drop In

Come along to the libraries listed below, for friendly, informal, digital support.

Our Digital Support Volunteers can:

Support you to use the library’s computers.

Support you to practice computing tasks, including emails, creating documents, using the internet, using social media, online shopping and more.

Support you to use carious features on your own digital device.

Y Storfa (Central Library) 277-278 Oxford Street, Swansea, SA1 3EL

Tuesday – 2pm-4pm

Thursday – 2pm-4pm

Saturday – 10am-12pm

Saturday – 1pm-4pm

Gorseinon Library 15 West St, Gorseinon, Swansea SA4 4AA

Wednesday – 2pm-5pm

Morriston Library 13A Pentrepoeth Rd, Morriston, Swansea SA6 6AA

Thursday – 9.30am – 11.30am

Swansea Contribution Corner

Swansea Contribution Corner circulates resources - repurposing them and reducing waste while providing not for profit organisations and groups with an additional resource to support their projects.We are looking for surplus items that are too good to go to the Recycling Centres, but not appropriate as a donation to a charity shop or local food bank.

Click here to find out more

For more information on any aspect of the project, or to get involved, contact the ‘Our Neighbourhood Development Officers’ on: [email protected]

The Our Neighbourhood Project takes your privacy seriously. Click here to view the Our Neighbourhood and SCVS Privacy statements

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