African Community Centre has a new high profile project The African Community Centre, based in Swansea, are looking for a Project Coordinator working with women, details of which are given below: 3 years fixed term £20,000 per annum 25 hours per week (including some evenings and weekends) This is a trauma counselling project that focuses [...]

Bonymaen Community Partnership held its AGM and Awards Evening on 9th May 2012 at Cefn Hengoed Comprehensive School in Swansea. As part of the event, The Deputy Lord Mayor of the City and County of Swansea Councillor Dennis James presented Community Champions Certificates to acknowledge the hard work and achievements by individuals and organisations for [...]

Swansea Bay REC would like to extend its congratulations to two newly elected members of local authorities in our area. Councillor Saifur Rahman has been elected from Port Talbot Ward of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council and Councillor Pearleen Sangha was elected from Uplands Ward of City & County of Swansea. Saifur Rahman has [...]

A recently started project is creating waves of colour wherever it goes. The Bigger Heart Project was recently started by a local businesswoman, Layla Yahya. The main aim of the project is to raise cash in order to buy educational support tools as well as toys, clothes and other similar items for the benefit of [...]

New Courses added through Engagement Gateway Project Food Safety – Level 3 Certified Course from 10th May 2012 3 Days Course Dates Held 10th May 24th May 29th May     Level 2 Award in Safe Moving & Handling 1 Day Course Date: Friday 11th May Time: 9.00am till 1pm Provided by Swansea Bay Regional [...]

We are proud to learn that one of the newest members of our communities has been selected as Mister Wales 2012. It is an honour and a matter of pride that Arnold Matsena, 22 of Swansea has received this coveted title. It was only two years ago that Arnold with his two younger brothers, originally [...]

During the past few months our team has delivered a number of diversity days for years 7 & 8 pupils in a number of schools across Neath Port Talbot and Swansea. The ‘Diversity Days’ have incorporated a mixture of classroom based activities coupled with hands-on workshops where the pupils got involved in diverse activities ranging [...]

We, at SBREC, would sincerely like to apologise to all our patrons who had been unsuccessfully trying to access our website or contact us by email for the past couple of hours. This was because of a network server issue arising out of our website hosts. It would appear that, as usual, they have resolved [...]

SBREC would like to remind our readers about the forthcoming elections for electing Councillors in local authorities in Wales. The election takes place on Thursday 3rd May 2012. In past years it has been found that members of disadvantaged communities particularly those living in areas where economic inactive is high but also including people from [...]

Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are at the very heart of our communities. They tend to work with local people at a grassroots level with a remit to support operational policing. Their very presence in the neighbourhoods provides reassurance to members of the public and the communities at large. South Wales Police (SWP) have recently announced [...]