Community Groups
Brynaman Gardening Club
Brynaman Gardening Club is based at the Community Centre. The monthly meetings take place on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. There's a pre-planned full programme of events including visiting speakers, film presentations, trips to gardens of interest and national gardening shows. It is a lively, social gathering that brings together people with an interest in gardening and the environment. The annual subscription is extremely good value at £8. For more information, contact Dianne on 01269 823884.
Brynaman Heritage Group
Treftadaeth Brynaman Heritage is a well-established group based in the library of Upper Brynaman Community Centre in the Upper Amman Communities First area. The group are very enthusiastic and have already undertaken a number of local history projects, the results of which are proudly displayed at the Community Centre. One member is currently co-ordinating a collection of photographs depicting Brynaman weddings and has gathered a wonderful array of photographs, invitations, bills and even a black wedding dress from 1890. The group has a membership of twenty-nine although only ten of these are very active within the group. For the Community Archives Wales project, the group are keen to research the changing nature of the shops and businesses in Brynaman, over the last century, and have a wide collection of photographs, billheads, letters and artefacts to digitise. For more information and how to get involved please contact Colin Jones on 01269 822876.
Scribes R Us
Based at Brynaman Community centre, this group originated from a creative writing group formed by the Department of Adult and Continuing Education at Swansea University. The members decided to continue working together and publishing their own work. They've been going for four years and in that time have published seven books of their own and other local authors' work.
The group are looking forward to their next project. They intend to collect true stories of the history of the area from local people and fictionalise them with the results being published as a book.
The groups meets weekly from 1pm to 3pm on Monday afternoons. For more information please email scribesrus1@aol.com or check out the website at www.scribesrus.co.uk.
Mess Up The Mess
MUTM is a not for profit organisation which has been established to offer dynamic theatre making experiences to young people, to increase opportunities for newly graduated theatre practitioners and create an inclusive company for innovative theatre that reaches out to new diverse audiences; breathing life into theatre in Carmarthenshire and beyond. If you would like to learn more about the group and the kind of services they can provide check out their website at www.messupthemess.co.uk or contact info@messupthemess.co.uk.
BASE Youth Group
B.A.S.E. stands for Brynaman Street Elite and was founded by a group of young people from the area. The group aims to improve services for young people, organise events and clubs for young people, improve the image of young people in the upper Amman valley and improve links between young people and the older generation. You can check out the blog on http://baselite.blogspot.com or contact the group on brynamanstreetelite@live.co.uk .