Summer 2023 Week 1! 🌞🌞 Week 1 of our Summer 2023 programme is fast approaching! All trip booking links will be posted 1 week before the trip at 5:00pm so keep an eye on our social media platforms!!! 😁 (E) = Booking required! Blaenau Gwent CBC Gwaith Ieuenctid Cymru | Youth Work In Wales

Who’s ready for summer?! WE ARE! Check out some of our provision: ⚽️ FREE Physical Literacy & Storytelling Sessions at our Libraries 🏀 Playschemes at our Sports Centres 🏉 Fit, Fed, Fun Rugby Camps at our Sports Centres 🏊🏼 Disability Family Swimming at our Sports Centres

July was a busy month of school engagement, team activities and festival fun! A great end to a fantastic academic year. Thank you to all partners involved! A short time to reflect before moving straight in to summer activities. Summer is in FULL SWING! 🌞 #SportsDevNews

We’ve thoroughly enjoyed supporting Blaenau Gwent CBC ‘Food and Fun’ programme over the last 12 days. Four fantastic schools engaged with and lots of active children 😁 Big thank you to our external partners for also supporting and delivering fun activities! Food and Fun Wales

Food glorious food! 🍅🌽🧅 Lots of fantastic cooking workshops taking place across Blaenau Gwent this summer with our fabulous partners. Thank you Llanhilleth Inst. Sara Butler for your superb delivery in Garnlydan, Coed Cae and Bryn Farm!

Say cheese! Great engagement with our selfie frame this summer, everyone has been loving it (even spider man!) 📸 Will you spot us out on our travels with our frame? Come and say hello and grab a photo with us 😁 Aneurin Leisure

Summer 2023 ✅ Countless hours of delivery, fantastic partner engagement, and a committed workforce of superb instructors and volunteers. Thank you to all involved. We’re thrilled with the outcome! Certainly our busiest, and best, summer yet! 🌞 Aneurin Leisure

We are thrilled to have also been shortlisted for the 2023 StreetGames Mental Health & Wellbeing Award, for the support we provide to the community via our Community Kit Room! A service that we’re incredibly proud of, and that is positively impacting so many lives 👕👚👟

A great start to the new academic year, captured in our September (30th edition!) newsletter. School festivals are back, volunteer opportunities are thriving, and we’ve received recognition for our summer programmes and Kit Room initiative 🏆 Aneurin Leisure #SportsDevNews

Today marks the start of Recycle Week 2023 ♻️ We’re doing our bit to make sport and physical activity accessible for all, but also lessening our impact on the planet. Check out how to access, and donate to, our free Community Kit Room service 👕👚👟 #RecycleWeek2023

We are delighted to have won the StreetGames Wales 2023 Mental Health & Wellbeing Award, for the work of our Community Kit Room service 🏆 We are thrilled to be positively impacting lives by providing free sports clothing and footwear 👕👚👟 #SportForAll Aneurin Leisure

Congratulations to our South Wales Mental Health and Wellbeing Award Winners Aneurin Leisure Aneurin Leisure Sports Development Llongyfarchiadau I’n henillwyr Gwobr Iechyd Meddwl a Lles De Cymru, Aneurin Leisure Sports Development #SGawards23

Playing kit, donated to our award winning Community Kit Room by @dragonsrugby, has recently allowed two new young people to begin their journey in to rugby 🏉 A shining example of a professional team reducing their waste and recycling kit to a worthy cause. #RecycleWeek2023 ♻️

An incredible donation of Team GB kit via StreetGames going in to our Kit Room ♻️ By harnessing the power of Olympic sport and the dedication of athletes, we can help bridge the sporting inequality gap and inspire a future where young people thrive through sport. #Inspiration

Our Festive Food Bank Appeal is back for 2023! 🍴 We have 7 local sports clubs, and David Spear Commercial Vehicles joining us to help support people within our communities across Blaenau Gwent this holiday season! 🎄 Individual club drop-off details are displayed on the poster 🗓️📍

October was a busy month of tournaments, teacher training and half term fun! Great to reflect on the past month, as we progress through in to November! Looking forward to seeing out the rest of the month with our cross countries. Praying for some autumn sun 🌞🤞🏻 #SportsDevNews

Great day hosting another successful cross-country event at RTB Ebbw Vale Junior Football Club. Well done to all the Tredegar primary schools for embracing the weather. A huge thank you to the Coleg Gwent students and Abertillery Learning Community year 9 pupils for marshalling and ensuring the event ran smoothly 🌧️🏃🏻🏃🏻‍♀️

Massive thank you to Abertillery Belles Football Club Mini & Juniors for their donation of boots and trainers! 👟 We’ve built up a fantastic collection of footwear in our Community Kit Room, thanks to the generosity of clubs! Please get in touch if you would like to donate to/ access the scheme! #SportForAll

And that’s a wrap for the Festive Food Bank Appeal! 🎄Huge thank you to all clubs, David Spear Commercial Vehicles and to those who contributed to the appeal. An overwhelming amount of generosity shown. All donations have now been distributed evenly to local food banks and community groups ❤️🍴

Great to deliver some Flag football sessions to over 190 year 7 and 8 pupils from Abertillery Learning Community as part of their wellbeing programme "try a new sport" loads of fun and lots of smiles