Our Work In Cynon Valley

Our work in Cynon Valley – funded by Pen Y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund

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Tempo Time Credits in the Cynon Valley is all about bringing people together across Aberdare, Abercynon, Hirwaun, Penywaun, Cwmaman, Mountain Ash, Rhigos and nearby villages.

We team up with local residents, including young people, working-age adults and families, community groups, sports clubs, schools and businesses to make getting involved in community easy,co-producing the programme with the people who use it, so it’s shaped by local people based on what matters most locally.

Give time, earn a Time Credit and treat yourself to a well-deserved “thank you” locally as well as nationally while making your community an even better place to be.

In the Cynon Valley, we connect local volunteers (especially young people,working-age adults and families) with brilliant community groups, schools and partners and a growing number of local businesses and charities who want to give back to their community. This work matters because it helps remove barriers to volunteering, boosts well being and confidence and makes it easier for people to be part of local regeneration,while supporting community organisations to recruit and retain volunteers.

Here’s how it works (in real life): you volunteer with a local project, earn a Time Credit for time given and then spend your credits with local recognition partners.

The programme is co-designed, through network events and discussion, with local people so it fits what Cynon Valley communities actually want. This could be a group trip to use Time Credits, community spend like a barbeque and sports event or simply groups that recognise their volunteers with Time Credits offering a recognition at their own venue, ie a film night in the youth club ora craft workshop.

Key activities include local outreach, co-production and themed network events, embedding Time Credits in schools, youth groups and other organisations that utilise volunteer time, linking people to volunteering opportunities (like a litter pick on a housing estate), engaging parents in the school PTA, building a peer support/mentoring network, onboarding recognition partners and using Tempo’s digital platform to track earning/spending and learn what’s working.