RCT Homes
Bryn Ivor Green & Active projectVerse on the Street
Catryn GrundyTenant Empowerment Officer
Tenant Empowerment Team
Who are we?
• Wales’ largest charitable RSL• Not for profit organisation• Community Mutual • Social Enterprise• Mixed tenure• 27 Sheltered complexes
Tenant Empowerment Team
•Housing (flats) for over 55’s•Support independent living•9am- 5pm scheme manager support•24hour lifeline/out of hours assistance•Peace of mind•Optional support•A community Hub
What is a sheltered complex?
Tenant Empowerment Team
Project aim:
To provide the aging community of Llwynypia with access to a variety of social activities to
promote fun and combat isolation.
Bryn Ivor Green and Active project
Tenant Empowerment Team
Craft workshops
Vegetable garden
Poetry
Card making Green
house
Sensory garden
Sex-up meals on wheels
Arm chair Aerobics
Concerts/school choirs
Seasonal fancy dress
parties
Relaxation area
Sing alongTrips
Tenant Empowerment Team
Tenant Empowerment Team
Tenant Empowerment Team
Tenant Empowerment Team
Tenant Empowerment Team
•Age concern•Llwynypia disabled gardening team•Communities first•Awards for all Wales•RCT Homes•RNIB
Project partners
Tenant Empowerment Team
•30 Residents have successfully completed horticulture training•‘Transfer of skill’ workshop where knowledge and tips were exchanged by all involved•Designed and planted a sensory garden •Grown and enjoyed a first Bryn Ivor crop of mixed vegetables•Organised and enjoyed a number of social events and activities aimed at enjoying and celebrating the project•Gained new confidence in managing a community grant•Drawn in over 50 community members and volunteers from the wider community
Project outcomes
Verse on the street
• A poetry competition• Sheltered scheme tenants• What you like about where you live• Workshops run by keen poets and read by
amateur dramatic enthusiasts • Open mic poetry nights• Booklet published & launched
Gwaun RuperraOur home within a home,
as lively or as quiet as you could wish it. For laughter and friendship
and community spirit, from Bingo to Knitting, coffee mornings and social evenings
shopping trips and seaside visits.
We decide on day to day functions. Never a day without laughter and fun. A sense of belonging,
with every day different to keep us amused all the hours long.
The lounge so many stories (if only walls could talk) of functions and dinners, socials and clubs a chance for the glitz and
the glamour, but slippers for some for the gentle stroll home to our flats when the evening is done.
The warmer nights we all gather in the peaceful grounds, a drink or two is
very nice as the sun goes down, a chance to reflect on the happy hours we spend together and happy to be
part of the R.C.T family.
Mavis Mitchell flat 29 Fernbank House Pontypridd 1
Don’t tell the scheme manager But I’ve got a cat When she calls It hides in my hat My hat is furry And very back But if it moves That’s the
cat The cat’s called Fred It’s a little boy
Had it been a girl I’d have called it Joy.