Gwarchodfa Natur Pontypridd Nature Reserve

26/02/2026

Thinking of staring a Community Nature Reserve? We’ve spoken to lots of local projects and compiled some advice based on experience to guide and inspire you. The resource also has advice about creating a plan with more details about steps to take. Each area is different, so this is just a guide to help you bring people and wildlife together where you live:

🌱 Start small with what you have. A window box, balcony, front garden or shared green - every patch counts.
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Find your people. Build networks by finding allies, local experts and local people.
🐝 Don’t wait for permission! Councils may support you eventually as Community Nature Reserves will align with their environmental and community objectives. Community leadership is key and powerful.
📣 Share updates, sightings & knowledge. Share successes (wildlife sightings, beauty), resources (seeds, tools, time, advice, encouragement) and celebrate small wins.
🦔 Make it relatable. Encourage ‘messy for nature’ spaces. Prioritise relatable changes as not everyone has lots of time or money. Focus on a local species, like hedgehogs or trees. No judgement. No need to be an expert.

Be part of a Community Nature Reserve:
https://www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/team-wilder-community-nature-reserve

19/01/2026

🦋💙 Save the Small Blue at Cwm Tips – Crowdfunder launched today! 💙🦋

Today we’re launching our ‘Save the Small Blue at Cwm Tips’ Crowdfunder, and we’d love your support.

Cwm Tips, near Beddau, is one of the most important wildlife sites in the South Wales Valleys. It supports over 600 species of invertebrates, including more than 50 species of bees, rare millipedes, orchids, and threatened butterflies. Among the most special is the Small Blue butterfly - our smallest butterfly species, and one of the few inland populations in the region.

However, the flower-rich grasslands that this butterfly depends on have declined over the past decade due to scrub encroachment and invasive species, particularly Cotoneaster. Without action, vital habitat - including the Kidney Vetch the Small Blue needs to survive - will continue to be lost.

If we reach our target, this crowdfunder will enable us to:

🌼 Restore flower-rich grassland
✂️ Tackle invasive species and scrub
🦋 Safeguard habitat for the Small Blue and other rare wildlife
🌿 Protect a site that matters for both nature and the local community

Even a small donation will make a real difference. If you’re unable to donate, sharing the page is just as valuable and helps spread the word.

👉 Support the crowdfunder here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-small-blue-at-cwm-tips

Not able to donate via Crowdfunder? Get in touch with us and we’ll help you find another way to support the project.

Together, we can make sure the Small Blue - and the special wildlife of Cwm Tips - has a future. 💚

26/07/2025

📣 RCT Pride Open Meeting – Be Heard! / Cyfarfod Agored RCT Pride – Dewch i gael eich llais!

Join us at The Tipsy Owl, Pontypridd on Sunday 27th July from 5PM as we begin shaping RCT Pride 2026!
We want to hear from YOU – the community. Whether you’re a local resident, an ally, a business, a performer, a volunteer, or attending your first Pride – this is your space to have a voice.
All identities and allies welcome.

📍 Lleoliad: The Tipsy Owl, Pontypridd
📆 Dydd Sul 27 Gorffennaf | 🕔 O 5yp ymlaen
Ymunwch â ni i rannu eich syniadau, gobeithion a’ch adborth ar gyfer RCT Pride 2026!
Boed chi’n aelod o’r gymuned, gwirfoddolwr rheolaidd, busnes lleol, neu’n mynychu’ch Pride cyntaf – dyma’ch cyfle i gael eich llais.
Croeso i bawb, o bob hunaniaeth a chynghreiriad.

04/03/2025

02/03/2025

We were inspired by the short film film festival so have just uploaded today’s pickings to the website https://www.trashfreetrails.org/make-change/soot-report

24/02/2025

Tickets are now available for Our Land, Our Nature Film Festival - Ein Gwlad, Ein Natur, Gŵyl Ffilm at YMA Pontypridd, Pontypridd on Saturday 1st March 2025. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

08/02/2025

29/11/2024

Thrilled to be part of this exhibition opening soon.

Repost from :

Mark your calendars for the opening weekend of ‘Yn berffaith rhyfedd | Perfectly strange’ 💫

📅 Saturday, 30th November & Sunday, 1st December 2024
🕚 11am – 5pm

📖 EVENT: Storytelling with Kim Willis – Tales For The Wild Land
📆 Saturday, 30th November 2024
⏰ 2pm
🌟 Women, myth, and stories from Wales and beyond
🎟️ Free | All welcome

https://www.missiongallery.co.uk/events/storytelling-with-kim-willis/

In this exhibition, our aim is to bring together artists and makers that are inspired by stories and myths. Whether rooted in Welsh tradition or from lands far beyond - anything that captures the imagination.

Both invited and selected open call artists will exhibit side by side in this celebration of all things ‘perfectly strange’.

If you would like to learn more, click the link in our bio.

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Mae’r cyfri lawr ar ddechrau ar gyfer ‘Yn berffaith rhyfedd…’

Nodwch y dyddiadau ar eich calendr ar gyfer penwythnos agoriadol ‘Yn berffaith rhyfedd | Perfectly strange’ 💫

📅 Dydd Sadwrn, 30ain Tachwedd & Dydd Sul, 1af Rhagfyr
🕚 11yb - 5yp

📖 Digwyddiadau: Adrodd Straeon gyda Kim Willis – Chwedlau i’r Wlad Wyllt
📆 Dydd Sadwrn 30ain Tachwedd 2024
⏰ 2yp
🌟 Menywod, chwedlau a storiâu o Gymru a phellach
🎟️ Am Ddim | Croeso i bawb

https://www.cymraeg.missiongallery.co.uk/digwyddiadau/adrodd-straeon-gyda-kim-willis/

Yn yr arddangosfa yma, ein nod yw dod ag artistiaid a gwneuthurwyr sydd wedi ei hysbrydoli gan storiau a chwedlau at ei gilydd. Gall rhain fod yn storiau Cymreig neu rhai o diroedd pellach - unrhywbeth sydd yn dal y dychymyg.

Bydd artistaid sydd wedi eu gwahodd ac artistiaid sydd wedi eu dethol o’n galwad agored, yn arddangos ochr wrth ochr yn y dathliad yma o bopeth sydd ‘yn berffaith rhyfedd’.