Heart of the community

“The Heart of the Community 3 Year Lottery funded project will help families realise their potential and help others realise theirs by bringing in the heart back into the community”

CYCA have developed an emotional health and wellbeing multifunctional hub based at CYCA Dragon Centre, where families can access of up to 6-months of support, delivered and broken down into three phases of emotional first aid support underpinned by CYCAs resilience model and 5 ways to wellbeing. Each phase will provide opportunities to build a range of tools and skills to support families to thrive.

What we offer

Free Agored Cymru accredited qualifications these include: Child Development, Resilience and Understanding Stress.
We also offer a free learning how to cook on a budget course.
Opportunities to become volunteers for CYCA.
Earn Tempo Time Credits for every one hour attending and volunteering.
Access to our Wildfowl and Wetlands passes.
Access to free Summer activities

After the 6-month support programme we will support Individuals who wish to become Community Volunteer Ambassadors who will support developing a peer-led programme and undertake bespoke training and supervised practice.

For more information please contact Lianna Davies lianna@cycaonline.org or Julie Thomas jthomas@cycaonline.org

“I can’t put into words what CYCA have done for me since I joined last summer. I have improved my own mental health and my children and even my husband have joined me on activities. The childcare and transport aspect are so vital to some of use and the staff are so accommodating to our needs. They have supported my son for his ALN diagnosis also, and I can honestly say all our lives have improved since coming here.”

“I have made new friends and learnt a lot of information which will help me raise my son.”

“I am part of a community when I come to CYCA.”

“I have enjoyed being part of a group in a safe place.”

Year 3 Gallery

Meet and Greet with the PCOS and Ice Cream

Year 2 Gallery

Counselling for non-Counsellors

Half Term Fun

Understanding Stress

Cooking on a budget

Wreath Making

Adrenal Fatigue

The HOC project is running non-accredited Adrenal Fatigue courses

The content covers: What is adrenal fatigue? How to heal your personal self-care routine, discussing and sharing recipes, pilates and self-reflection poem sessions.

Year 1 Gallery

Ceramic Crown Painting Workshop

In honour of the upcoming Coronation of King Charles III, we held a crown painting workshop at our main CYCA building in North Dock

Cake Pop Workshop

Excellent heart of the community cake pop session at our centre on the 11th of April 2023

Easter Ceramic Painting

All the children enjoyed our Easter ceramics painting workshop at our main CYCA office, was lovely to see so many great works of art!

Easter Wreath Making Workshop

We held an Easter Wreath making workshop and everyone made some really beautiful designs over the two weeks

Air Drying Clay and Flower Press Workshop

We held an air dry clay/flower pressing workshop at our CYCA Hwb and it was a great success, everyone had fun and made some lovely designs.

HOC Rugby Sessions

Our HOC children loved the rugby taster session that Stradey Sospans coaches undertook. Even though the weather wasn't great all the children enjoyed and are looking forward to coming back for our next session! Ty you Stradey Sospans and Furnace RFC.

Community Cupcake Course

The community cupcake course went really well! Thank you to everyone who attended.

Movie Night

CYCA held a movie night for families, the movie for the evening was Encanto, everyone had a good time and enjoyed a variety of snacks.

HOC Beachcombing

One of our Ddreigiau participants Nix ran a wonderful workshop for HOC which took place on Llanelli beach. We did a scavenger hunt for various sea life and pebbles, even though it was a hot day, everyone enjoyed.