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Contents

3 Tyfu’n Iach Gyda’n Gilydd 4 NPT Local Food Map 5 Gwrhyd Mountain Meats / Cwmgors Farm 6 Onllwyn Eggs / Margam Country Park 7 Josie & Glyn Davies Honey / Rhianwen Fach Farm 8 Cwm Farm Charcuterie / Old Castle Farm 9 Mr Nice Pie / Neath Ales 10 Curious Cakery / PJ Lloyd Potatoes 11 The Meat & Greet Co. / Rebecca Gilmore Cakes 12 Rad Creates / Jersey Bakery 13 Colucci’s Kitchen / Afan Vale Chocolates 14 Ron Evans Pies / Frosty’s Green Grocers 15 Tonmawr Christmas Trees / Hungry Welsh Girl 16 Cwmavon Teapot Bistro Farmers Market 17 Neath Food Festival 18 Neath Indoor Market 19 Community Growers Network 20 Rheola Walled Garden 21 Dove Workshop Roundhouse

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We are a partnership project with staff at Neath Port Talbot Council for Voluntary Services, Glynneath Training Centre and Dove Workshop, Banwen. This is an innovative project to support Regenerate NPT in developing Neath Port Talbot as a good place to live with vibrant, sustainable communities and good quality of life (www.regenerate.npt.gov.uk). Since July 2016 we have provided over 25 training sessions and events, we have involved over 100 local participants, mentored 3 local business start-ups and supported 2 local networks. We carried out a land mapping exercise with Tai Tarian, the largest social housing provider for Neath Port Talbot, to find land that could be made available for community growing projects. Our aim was to support the establishment of a thriving local food and growing economy in Neath Port Talbot. Our funding comes from the Leader Fund provided by the Welsh Assembly Government and the European Fund for Agriculture and Rural Development. We are very lucky to have the beautiful rural landscape of Neath Port Talbot, but we face challenges too. Access to fresh fruit and vegetables and other locally grown produce is a key issue in Neath Port Talbot. Poor transport links, poor health, a skills deficit and high childhood obesity rates are affecting local people along with the high impact of Welfare Reform and longstanding community deprivation. This project aimed to begin to tackle these impacts and to provide a feasibility study for further work tackling both these local issues and the global issues of environmental sustainability in the face of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and economic instability. It is hoped that this Directory will be a major boost for these local food and growing ventures and may be a springboard for more such ventures in Neath Port Talbot.

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LOCAL FOOD DIRECTORY Community Organisations 7 Cwm Farm Charcuterie 8 Old Castle Farm Growers 1 Regenerate 9 Mr Nice Pies 1 Cilybebyll Allotment 2 NPT CVS 10 Neath Ales Society 3 Dove Workshop 11 Curious Cakery 2 Rhydyfro Gardening 4 Glynneath Training 12 PJ Lloyd Potatoes Club Centre 13 The Meat & Greet Co. 3 Cwm-ni Iach 14 Rebecca Gilmore Cakes 4 Old Road Allotments Local Food 15 Rad Creates 5 Longford and District Businesses 16 Jersey Bakery Gardening Society 17 Colucci’s Kitchen 6 West Glamorgan 1 Gwrhyd Mountain Meats 18 Afan Vale Chocolates Beekeepers Association 2 Cwmgors Farm 19 Ron Evans Pies 7 Y Banwen Community 3 Onllwyn Eggs 20 Frosty’s Green Grocers Hub 4 Margam Country Park 21 Tonmawr Christmas 8 Tonmawr Community 5 Josie & Glyn Davies Trees Garden Honey 22 The Hungry Welsh Girl 9 Rheola Walled Garden 6 Rhianwen Fach Farm 10 Glynneath & District Gardening Club 11 Glynneath and District Allotment Society 12 Cwmavon Allotment Society 13 Crawford Road Allotments 14 Friends and Neighbours Ethel Street 15 Fairyland Allotment Society 16 Banwen Allotments 17 Friends of the Earth 18 Keep Wales Tidy 19 Pontrhydyfen CG 20 YMCA Port Talbot

Food Events 1 Neath Indoor Market 2 Neath Food Festival 3 Cwmavon Teapot Bistro Farmers Market THIS MAP WAS MADE USING GOOGLE MAP MAKER

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LLOOCCAALL FFOOOODD BDUIRSEINCETSOSREYS Gwrhyd Mountain Meats Tomos Hopkin t: 01639 323200 e: [email protected] www.gwrhydmountainmeats.co.uk Traditional family butchers and farmers selling various meat, vegetables, honey, preserves; Award winning, Home delivery, sales via Facebook, website, phone, email.

Cwmgors Farm - Charollais Lamb t: 07707 909202 e: [email protected] Whole or half carcass lamb and eggs. Sales via farm gate/front door, markets and local butchers.

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES Onllwyn Eggs Lynda Parfitt t: 01639 701321 or 07779 995599 Sales via Markets, Local Stockists, Text, Phone (leave message).

Margam Country Park t: 01639 881635 e: [email protected] Margam Country Park Margam, Port Talbot SA13 2TJ Venison & lamb sales available to preorder, farm fresh eggs available for sale from the entrance gate. Find us on Facebook and Twitter.

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES Josie & Glyn Davies - Honey 134 Neath Road, Rhos, Pontardawe, SA8 3HB Sales of honey and beeswax candles from front door (look out for the sign on the road). Awards won for honey at Royal Welsh Show since 2008.

Rhianwen Fach Farm David Hughes t: 07974 119184 Rhianwen Fach Farm, Mynydd Emroch, Port Talbot, Prepacked lamb from the farm gate/front door, can deliver to addresses in NPT and Llanelli area.

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES Cwm Farm Charcuterie www.cwmfarm.co.uk High quality pork and venison salami and chorizo as well as hampers. Multi award winning. Order online or find them at various local events and farmers markets. Now stocked at Selfridges and exclusive restaurants in Mayfair, such as Kitty Fishers’.

Old Castle Farm Old Castle Farm Shop, Fairyland Road, Tonna, Neath, SA11 3QB e: [email protected] Meat boxes, free range turkeys, free range chickens, lamb, gourmet burgers and sausages, honey, local mature steaks, sweet cure and smoked bacon, free range chicken and duck eggs, Welsh cheeses, seasonal produce. Free delivery in the Neath area (minimum order applies), sales via farm gate, phone, email, farmers markets and Facebook.

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES Mr Nice Pie Workshop 5, Sandfields Business Centre, Port Talbot, SA12 7PQ t: 07968 715 205 or 07414 171 719 www.mrnicepie.co.uk mrnicepie @mrnicepiebaker

Immensely homely pies to make ones hat pop off with a shameful, crazy, ‘Whoopsie Daisy’. Hearty and wholesome, spectacle steaming fillings to leave ones step classily sprung. All our offerings are of the vegan persuasion, find a list of local stockists on our website. Neath Ales www.neathales.co.uk Locally brewed Real Ales, Contact via website or find in local shops.

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES Curious Cakery t: 07815876622 e: [email protected] Cakes, studied sugarcraft/wired flowers and holds 5 star food hygiene rating, on Facebook, Sales via phone, email and Facebook.

PJ Lloyd Potatoes 17 Riverside Gardens, Glynneath, Nr Neath SA11 5LA t: 01639 720077 m: 07970 461949 Fresh potatoes from everywhere, Welsh when in season, Wholesale and retail to the public. Sales via phone, from business address and from the roadside outside Resolven Football Club/Resolven Market with planning permission

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES The Meat & Greet Co. t: 07794 267882, e: [email protected] The Butcher, The Baker and The Chef. Creating bespoke cakes, slow roasting locally sourced meats and baking beautiful breads. Artisan street food and specialist event catering. Enquiries via phone, email, Facebook and at local markets website.

Rebecca Gilmore Cakes t: 07855 379903 e: [email protected] www.rebeccagilmoreweddingcakes.co.uk Bespoke wedding and celebration cakes. Sales via phone, email, Facebook, Best Wedding Cakes Award 2015 and 2016.

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES Rad Creates James t: 07599232032, e: [email protected] www.radcreates.co.uk Unique, bespoke, handmade chocolates. Sales via Email, Facebook and Instagram.

Jersey Bakery Mr Rosser - Local Bakery Shop 54 Regent Street East, Neath SA11 2RU t: 01639 813221 Bread, pies, pastries, cakes, confectionery.

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES Colucci’s Kitchen Susanna Jones - Cymmer, Port Talbot t: 07508 770699 e: [email protected] www.colucciskitchen.co.uk All homemade preserves, pastries, cakes, low fat ready meals, roast dinners and buffets. Sales via Facebook, email and phone.

Afan Vale Chocolates t: 0333 577 2080 e: [email protected] www.afanvalechocolates.co.uk Glyncorrwg, specialist chocolate bars and boxes, chocolate tasters club. Working with other welsh producers, Awarded Pen y Cymoedd Community Fund Grant to buy new machinery and moulds to expand the business. Sales via phone, local shops, email, website.

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES Ron Evans Pies 17 Commercial Road, Taibach, Port Talbot SA13 1LN t: 01639 883889 www.ronevanspies.com Pies, pastries, rissoles sold from the premises and stocked at local shops and takeaways. 3rd generation family business. Trading since 1926.

Pic: www.lynnerees.com

Frosty’s Green Grocers 63 Herbert Street, Pontardawe SA8 4ED t: 01792 448308 thegreengrocerspontardawe

Organic, ethical shop.Supporting local farmers and food producers. Whole foods. Vegan friendly. Cruelty free beauty. Pies, pasties, smoothies. Local dairy and bread, preserves.

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LOCAL FOOD BUSINESSES Tonmawr Christmas Trees Tonmawr Christmas Tree Farm, Tonmawr Road, Tonmawr t: 07505 821298 e: [email protected]

Hungry Welsh Girl www.thehungrywelshgirl.com Vegan blogger and cook. Find her on:

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FOOD EVENTS Cwmavon Farmers Market Run by Tea Pot Bistro at Cwmavon Community Centre usually on the last Saturday of the month. See our Facebook page for the date of the December Christmas Market or call Dawn on 01639 894587

Cwmavon Community Centre, Depot Road, Cwmavon, Neath Port Talbot SA12 9DF Disabled Access. Find the community centre on npt.gov.uk

We have wonderful stalls every month, often with new arrivals - special cheeses, lovely cakes, jams and chutneys, pickles.

Oh yes! Don’t forget our butcher as well. And if you’re looking for something special for Christmas Find the Teapot Bistro on then come down and look at our Facebook or come down and have craft stalls. tea, coffee, cakes or a meal at: Railmill Lane, Cwmavon, Neath Port Talbot SA12 9DL Open Monday - Thursday 9am - 8pm, Friday 9am - 5pm and Saturday 9am - 1pm

We now have a small pop in shop at the bistro stocking meat from the farmers market butcher, jams, chutneys, coffee, cheese, bread, cakes, pies and pastries.

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FOOD EVENTS Neath Food Festival The historic market town of Neath hosted its 9th Food & Drink Festival this autumn over the last weekend in September with something to offer all the family. Attracting almost 80 exhibitors, the Festival showcases a wide variety of Welsh produce available from award winning suppliers from the town’s indoor Victorian Market and beyond. Whether it’s cheese, or exquisite liqueurs, everything has been produced by people who care passionately about the ingredients they use and the quality of the products they make. 2018 will be the 10th Neath Food & Drink Festival and the best one yet. Sample a culturally diverse range of hot foods in the two Street Food Zones, enjoy a glass of bubbly in the champagne tent, or call in to see what the local restaurants and cafes have to offer. Add live music, street entertainers and cookery demonstrations and you have the perfect mix for a great family day out.

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FOOD EVENTS Neath Indoor Market Neath has been a market town for a very long time perhaps dating right back to the Roman settlement. The current Victorian market on Green Street was built in 1904. The date of 1837 on the facade refers to an earlier market on the same site that had covered stalls around the perimeter for meat and fish stalls and a central open air market area for both established and casual traders. Prior to this the market was on what is now Old Market Street, The popularity of this even earlier market can be seen through the names of the surrounding streets the traders spilled on to: Butter Street, Cattle Street and Duck Street.

The Victorian market is now an eclectic place where you can find a hyper trendy posh hat and bag boutique next to a butcher’s counter. It is open Monday to Saturday 9am to 5pm (not open Sundays). Find more information on www.npt.gov.uk

There are 66 stalls, of which 22 are food related:

AJ Meats (Butchers), Bake John Rees (Quality Leather ‘n’ Take (Bakery), Bella Fiori Goods), Llewellyns (Fruit and (Florist), Bevans’ Barbers, Body Veg), Mark Reynolds (Fruit & & Bath (Accessories), Carpet Veg), Mens Fashion, Music Stall, Stall, Christian Bookshop, Coles Neath Picture Frames, Nevilles Butchers, Coles Carvery, Nerd (Take Away), Newsagents, Paul Central Comics, Craft Stall, Neath Raeburn (Fishmongers), Peet & Market Curios (Antiques), Daniel’s Sons (Cards and Party Supplies), Dolls House Emporium, Eddies Posh Bags, Rees & Sons, Sizzles Second Hand Books, Electrical (Delicatessen), Styles Mobiles, Stall, Emmies Baby Boutique, Sue’s Pantry (Café), Sweet Stall, The Sewing Room, Forget Me Thai Food Café, Tom Thomas of Not (Florist), Health Stall, Jems Neath (Pet Supplies), Trendy Tots (Fabric and Knitting), Katie’s (Baby & Toddler Clothes), Welsh Kitchen (Award winning faggots Stall (Gifts). and peas), Ladies Fashion,

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COMMUNITY GROWERS NPT Community Growers Network 20 groups from throughout Neath Port Talbot have been involved in the creation of a network of community growers. From stalwart allotment growers growing season after season for decades on their plots at a number of sites managed by the County Borough Council and Town Councils, to brand new sites and projects created by community groups. These growers have a wide range of knowledge and skills about growing. There is renewed interest in all things green with more young people interested in gardening than there had been for many years. An event was held at Rheola Walled Garden to bring together the existing groups and establish them as a network with the potential to go forward. There were 14 people from 6 different groups at the event touring the gardens at Rheola and discussing the idea of the Growers Network.

Groups involved: Banwen Gardening Club, Cilybebyll Allotments, Crawford Road Allotments, Cwmavon Allotments, Cwm-ni Iach, Fairyland Allotments, FAN Melyn, Friends of the Earth, Glynneath Allotments, Glynneath Gardeners Club, Keep Wales Tidy, Longford Gardeners, Old Road Allotments, Pontrhydyfen Community Garden, Port Talbot YMCA, Rheola Community Garden, Rhyd y Fro Gardeners Club, Tonmawr Community Garden, West Glamorgan Beekeepers, Y Banwen Community Garden.

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COMMUNITY GROWERS Glynneath Training Centre at Rheola Walled Garden

Dating from about 1812 Rheola walled garden is the only remaining 19th century Walled Garden in the Neath valley. It lay abandoned and overgrown from the 1950s until 2009 when Glynneath Training Centre took on the task of clearing the garden, building paths and restoring the original stone walls. Three greenhouses were rebuilt, by local craftsmen which are now used for growing fruits, vegetables and other plants. Since July 2016 staff have received funding through the Tyfu’n Iach Gyda’n Gilydd project to continue their work.

We aim to use the garden as a venue to provide courses and training in horticulture and green crafts. We have rebuilt the old gardener’s cottage to be used as a space for these. To help fund our on-going activities we sometimes sell garden plants and produce.

Without the help of volunteers over seven years we could not have achieved all this, and are very keen for local people to help us turn ideas into reality - you will be very welcome and we can offer you the chance to develop gardening skills and the experience in working in a beautiful and historic environment.

Site features: • Vegetable beds • Red cedar greenhouses • Polytunnel • Trained fruit • Rainwater harvesting for irrigation and toilet flushing • Gravity fed drip-irrigation system • Woodland area, fire-pit circle • Wildlife pond • Willow beds (for basketry/crafts) • Gardener’s Cottage for meeting space and training venue • Children’s/family gardening sessions • Apple Orchard • Developing forest garden

To get involved please visit the centre in Oddfellows Street or ring 01639 721772 and ask for more information about volunteering and courses.

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Tyfu’n Iach at Dove Workshop DOVE Workshop is an organisation that is committed to the provision of learning opportunities in our communities. As a valued partner of the Tyfu’n Iach Gyda’n Gilydd project DOVE provided business support and training to local entrepreneurs through a mentoring service.

DOVE also provided training and group has formed meeting once a activities in sustainability and week to socialise and continue to do traditional skills with woodwork. Various other activities a number of courses and workshops were held including planting a attended by local people and community orchard and joint work with schoolchildren. Mark other organisations Hepburn one The local school was of the workers on the also engaged with project says “it has a range of activities been wonderful to see for the children to people engaged, not participate in such as just to learn new skills building a cob wall with but also learn from bottles for a window. each other. There are a host of skills out there and they need Three fledgling businesses were to be passed on to stop them being mentored in starting up a business, lost forever”. 1-1 intensive support was put in place to help the businesses take Tyfu’n Iach delivered courses in Cob their first steps. Tailor made training building, Green woodworking, and was identified to help people with ‘Building a Green roof.’ This has their businesses and a number resulted in many people actively of accredited qualifications were volunteering on a regular basis, a achieved.

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ORGANISATIONS DOVE Workshop DOVE Workshop provides a number of services that are associated with learning, we offer opportunities for: volunteering, work experience, IT drop-in services, employment support, CV writing and much more! There is childcare available to learners and working parents on-site at Dovecote Day Nursery.

Glynneath Training Centre The Glynneath Training Centre is a non-profit making company with charitable status. Our core business is to provide learning opportunities to our local community, by running accredited courses or informal clubs. The Centre incorporates the following businesses in support of our core business: Java Bean Community Café, Rompers Nursery, Revive Charity Shop, Rheola Walled Garden. Neath Port Talbot CVS Neath Port Talbot Council for Voluntary Service is the umbrella organisation for voluntary and community organisations in Neath Port Talbot. We are a membership organisation that supports, promotes and develops the voluntary sector locally. We assist groups with setting up, developing services and accessing funding. We also develop volunteering opportunities and support organisations with recruiting volunteers.

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ORGANISATIONS

DOVE Workshop, Roman Road, Banwen, Neath SA10 9LW t: 01639 700024 e: [email protected] www.doveworkshop.org.uk @DOVEWorkshopBanwen @doveworkshop

Glynneath Training Centre Oddfellows Street Glynneath Neath Port Talbot SA11 5DB t: 01639 729900 e: [email protected] www.glynneathtc.org.uk Charity No 518523

Neath Port Talbot CVS Tŷ Margaret Thorne 17-19 Alfred Street Neath SA11 1EF t: 01639 631246 e: [email protected] www.nptcvs.org.uk @nptcvs

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