A weekend residential took place at Dare Valley Country Park, Aberdare on Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th July 2014 with representatives from the Merthyr Tydfil Borough Wide Youth Forum Cabinet, SMT’s Up & Coming Young Reporters and specialists from SMT’s CREA8 project, to learn about Human Trafficking and to design child friendly resources for raising …

Young People take action against Modern Slavery – Caught In Traffik DVD Read More »

Merthyr Tydfil CBC with partners Safer Merthyr Tydfil is planning a Football Tournament as part of White Ribbon Day, 25 November 2014 that promotes men ending violence against women. This event is a local response as part of a national campaign that aims to increase public awareness of White Ribbon Day and the local campaign …

Football Tournament Goal to End Violence against Women and Girls on White Ribbon Day 2014 Read More »

In the week when the Gender-based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Bill goes before the National Assembly, the Welsh Government has launched an awareness campaign asking people to, quite literally, make a stand against all forms of such violence and abuse. The Welsh Government is asking the people of Wales to make a …

Launch of the “Making a stand campaign.” Read More »

As part of Dwr Cymru/Welsh Water’s reservoir safety campaign they have launched a multi media campaign explaining the dangers of swimming in reservoirs. Please find further information by following this link: http://www.dwrcymru.co.uk/en/Community/Education/Reservoir-Safety.aspx

It was lights, camera and action for over 200 teenagers who took part in an important engagement project to tackle youth annoyance and anti-social behaviour. An entire cinema was taken over for the evening to mark the end of the Youth Engagement Project, to encourage young people to continue to make the right choices about …

Joint engagement project to tackle youth annoyance & anti social behaviour Read More »

The Evolve Exemplar Employer Scheme, through Chwarae Teg recognises organisations that move above and beyond legal compliance in the areas of equality and diversity to create flexible workplaces and equality of opportunity for all employees. This achievement acknowledges that SMT: promote an inclusive and diverse workplace enable development and progression opportunities for all staff promote flexible …

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Visible and Up & Coming are 2 projects under the Merthyr Tydfil Community Voice Portfolio funded by the Big Lottery. Visible aims to provide support, bring together, develop the capacity and promote the voice of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) communities within Merthyr Tydfil. Up & Coming will recruit, train and support Young Reporters …

Visible and Up & Coming Projects commence Read More »

Safer Merthyr Tydfil is set to deliver two of the seven projects contained within the Merthyr Tydfil Community Voice portfolio, MAGNET funded by the BIG Lottery. The Visible Project aims to provide support and bring together, develop the capacity and promote the voice of LGBT communities within Merthyr Tydfil.  This is an exciting new project …

Community Voice – MAGNET Read More »

Safer Merthyr Tydfil welcomed local councillors, partner agency representatives and service users to view and celebrate our work with local people.  We heard from young people, via digital stories, who accessed our Moving Ahead Project, a survivor who had received support from our Homesafe Service and Domestic Abuse Resource Team and the words of a perpetrator of domestic …

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