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Hello Winter 2017. The latest including winning a national award, group opportunities, venue hire and a job opportunity!

Winner of Wales' most Sustainable Venue!

Just last night at the Sennedd we won a national award for our stunning new training centre!

Built by and for the community, with heart and soul embedded into every part of it, this building has quite rightly been recognised as the most Sustainable Venue in Wales.

A big thank you to everyone involved in building it: our amazing groups, our design team and, of course, our lovely staff team. It was all possible due to funding from Big Lottery Fund Wales and Welsh Government.

If you were a buzzard…

…this is what you’d see – geometrically stunning design, near invisible green roof systems and a new site development which fits its environment.  Visually low impact, biodiversity enhancing, sun-centred and beautiful on the eye – we think this is how buildings should be created. 

And it’s not finished yet – we’re mid-way through building a remarkable 2 storey residential – built by and for young people with natural materials. Check out the video below to hear the latest.

And this is what the people who built it think…

We’re recruiting!  Join a growing team…

We’re recruiting for a Construction Administrator. Check out the job description and application form here:

www.downtoearthproject.org.uk/recruitment

Thoughts from our participants
 
It’s nice to win awards and build lovely buildings, but we only do it to help people get through challenging times in their lives. This is what one of our participants thinks:

"The crippling nature of having anxiety issues and social phobias seems to be fading for the first time in fifteen years!  This is the first time I have genuinely felt positive about my future; a feeling that years of psychological therapy and medication have never provided.  I feel positive about employment and will be actively making steps towards finding work.  Whereas I used to feel desperate sadness about the time lost to PTS and the residual psychological issues, I now feel positive about my future and I believe that I owe this new sense of confidence solely to my attendance at D2E. (More...)

Free group programmes coming up in 2018

Thanks to our lovely funders we have amazing free, accredited programmes available in January, 1 day a week for 8 weeks.

Want to build a residential centre?  Do you work with 16 to 24 year olds from ‘hard to reach’ or vulnerable backgrounds?  “Building Sustainable Communities” is our flagship young person project putting young people at the heart of creating their own buildings and offering life-changing experiences.

Email ian@downtoearthproject.org.uk to find out more.

If you're 25 years old and upwards then this could be for you:

Therapeutic Sustainable Construction – working together to create stunning buildings and to improve mental well-being - these programmes are clinically proven to help people with mental health problems. 

Email Jon@downtoearthproject.org.uk to find out more.

How other people use our venues

You can hire our venues for a wedding or for a coroprate event. The latest wedding we hosted was for Georgia and Omar...

 

...And we hosted a 2 day hackathon for Veeqo

 

Get in touch about hiring our award-winning venues!

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