Wellbeing Hub

The Wellbeing Hub serves the community of Dinas, and surrounding villages, and its inhabitants with many events hosted at Yr Hen Ysgol. Contact Val: Email

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The Wellbeing Hub organises events such as:

  • Weekly events: Welsh conversation classes, Ukulele
  • Monthly: Lunches
  • Monthly: Cinema nights
  • Trips for example National Botanical Gardens, The Royal Mint, Vale of Rheidol Railway
  • Special events: Coronation celebration,
  • Summer garden party,
  • Autumn Fair etc. Events Special
  • Christmas Lunch
  • Dinas Open Gardens Dinas Open Gardens

Hub Christmas lunch

We had a full house and Christmas lunch of boeuf bourguignon, cheesecake, roulade, mince pies and coffee. Entertainment was provide by Betsan and Malcolm or keyboards and guitar followed by Eliza on Harp.

Hub lunches

The hub lunches are subsidised meals cooked by volunteers. A full lunch with desert and hot drink followed by a quiz or performance. In June 2024 we had the local harpist Eliza to perform on harp having won the Eisteddfod first prize for under 19.

PAVS awards 2023

Dinas Cross Wellbeing Hub has won the PAVS volunteering Awards “group of the year”! Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services (PAVS) chose the Hub from 16 (very worthy) Pembrokeshire organisations to be awarded 2023 winner.

Warm Space

We have converted Garn Fach into a “Warm Space”, or Snug, to provide a cosy meeting space. This room has its own kitchenette with free tea, coffee and biscuits, with milk in the fridge, to create a “Home from home”. There is a DVD player, radio, USB charging sockets, internet connection, board games, chess and cards. Members of our community are meeting to just chat, watch a film, play cards and learn to play the ukulele, in a warm environment. It is also used by the Welsh conversation group, Merched y Wawr and the gardening group for armchair gardening! It is open for anyone to use on Mondays and Fridays from Monday 13th November 10:00-16:00.

Big breakfast 2024

Well over a hundred full cooked breakfasts were served at a fundraising event for Paul Sartori palliative care charity. The total raised was £1,735.91. In addition to a full cooked breakfast we provided toast and croissants, tea cakes, jam and fruit juices. Thank you for a great turnout and for your generosity.

Dinas Open Gardens

Yr Hen Ysgol walled garden, Church, three art galleries and ten gardens open to the public. Full report Dinas Open Gardens

Autumn Show, September 2023

A very successful Autumn Show. Thanks to all the sponsors, judges, volunteers, exhibitors and visitors.

£520 was raised in voluntary contributions for Yr Hen Ysgol funds.

Tree planting and gardening

The Wellbeing Hub assisted YHY in tree planting in the back garden and maintains the planters and borders.

A new border extends the full length of the garden which includes obelisks and roses.

Gardening club

Would like to acknowledge the financial support of :

Force for Nature Pembrokeshire Coast Trust

McCarthy Stone foundation

These two donations are supporting garden projects around the village.

“The Well” refurbishment

The Wellbeing Hub refurbished the Well next to the Tennis Courts.

Tennis court Orchard

The land beside the tennis court has been left untouched for a long time. It is owned by the Community Council.

With funding from Pembrokeshire Coast Force for Nature, Dinas Wellbeing Hub gardening group were able to plant an orchard of native Welsh apple trees and 400 bulbs including native Welsh daffodils, snowdrops and bluebells. The next stage will be to introduce native hedging. The well site was also tidied and bulbs planted.