ALL ABOUT US
Welcome to Growing Space Pontypridd. Our aim is to improve the health and well-being of our community by encouraging the young and young at heart to explore the great outdoors through creative arts opportunities.
Our ethos is learning through play and nurturing with nature!
Each of our workshops are designed to bring you closer to nature, to enhance your well being, introduce you to new crafts and new friends. We use outside spaces for our workshops or bring the outside inside to you!
GROWING SPACE PONTYPRIDD
NURTURE WITH NATURE
WORKSHOPS
GREENHOUSE GATHERINGS
Arts and crafts for the inner child. This joyful arts and crafts session based in Canolfan Calon Taf greenhouse is fun and playful with a focus on laughter and connecting with others.
CREATIVE COMPANY & CARERS CREATIVE COMPANY
Time to create in the company of others, take time out of a busy schedule and join us at either Creative Company on the Graig our Carers Creative company in Partnership with RCT Carers Support Project. A different crafty activity each week bringing you new skills and new friends. A space for all.
NURTURE WITH NATURE WORKSHOPS
Themed workshops for little ones and their families! Storytelling, activity trail, themed crafts all designed to get you exploring the great outdoors and being nurtured by nature.
COOK,TASTE,TALK
​Community cooking using homegrown and foraged ingredients. Designed to give you confidence and inspiration to try something new or whip up a chutney! We provide small scale cooking workshops in partnership with Petes Wholefood shop.
STORIES IN STITCH Creative Social History Workshops
Get creative with story and stitch! Come and get playful in this fun class aimed at adults but older children welcome. Paint, embroider, applique, needle felt and paper art, options are endless in our class with a difference. Each course is based on a specific theme determined by the group. A chance to share and create together. Themes such as tea towels, our special objects, gardens, the lost words and our Pontypridd.
MONTHLY MENO-CRAFTING WORKSHOPS
A relaxed opportunity for playful artistic expression whilst exploring themes around the menopause - sharing stories, experiences, advice, and offering support to anyone who is curious about the menopause, is going through it or has come through 'the other side' of their menopause journey. Suitable for all ages and stages. Led by a menopause workplace champion and Growing Space Pontypridd staff.
ART IN THE PARK
Join us in Ynysangharad Park (Pontypridd) and explore natuture through creativity. Our sessions are fun and relaxed set in the Lido Cafe when the weather is wet and outside in the sunshine when the weather is warm! Each week we use a different art medium to explore nature such as water colour, collage, print making, textiles and clay. Art in the Park takes place Thursdays 10:15 - 12pm.