How You Can Help...
What we are doing
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developing an Eco-Visitor Centre for the interpretation of the area's natural history and cultural heritage, folklore and archaeology.
"We're a part of Wales's first Eco-Museum, celebrating the Llyn Peninsula's rich diversity of cultural and natural heritage"
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developing a Study Centre for young people - CLAS - The Centre for Living Arts and Science that will host a programme training courses on cultural and environmental themes. The CLAS Building will host a New Visitor Centre & a Field Centre for Holistic Education. Inspired by the Folk Schoolmovement originally founded by Grundtvig, and International Youth Initiative Programme of Scandinavian countries. If you would like to find out more about the new centre and proposed activities please click here.
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providing a broad range of practical volunteering & work experience opportunities
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providing a year-round programme of cultural and heritage events - including spellbinding storytellings, magical music evenings, talks, seminars and festivals.
Volunteering
Every Wednesday is a Local Volunteer Work day from 10am to 4.00 pm click here for details.
Please contact the office if you would like to come along on other days.
We will give accommodation priority to those volunteers who have experience in building or organic gardening. The main projects this spring/summer will be:
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work on the community organic-biodynamic herb garden and veg garden
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reed thatching
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building the oak framed oak visitor centre, this involves learning traditional green oak woodworking skills, stone walling & lime skills & straw bale building skills
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creating new access footpaths and gates around the centre
We are also looking for people with experience in fundraising skills. You may be able to help at the office here at the Centre or from your own location if you live further away. Please contact Dafydd Davies-Hughes, Project Manager
Donate
If you wish to support The Felin Uchaf Centre and make a contribution financially then please go here.
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Words from Gareth...
The Felin Uchaf Centre in Rhoshirwaun is a rare beauty full of creativity and togetherness. There really is nothing quite like this left in the world. It is a place where you learn the value of the land on which we walk, what we can give to it and what it can give to us. A place where the night is lit by the stars, not street lights and time becomes a gift, not a restriction. A place that remains out of reach from the clutches of consumerism and western greed.
When I asked Dafydd (The Project Manager) how people can help Felin Uchaf he replied "I just want people to be happy and pursue what they love". Dafydd guides the community with honesty, compassion and sensitivity, always supporting the creativity of each individual and enabling them to manage their skills together as a group. In this tucked away corner the community flourishes, whether you want to learn to build using 18th century methods in a contemporary style, garden organically, create clay bricks or thatch, it brings people in from all over the world to learn from each other and a reach for a more sustainable future.
In this place success is not measured by the size of your house or the number of cars that you own. It is not determined by the suit that you wear, the model of your phone or the make of your shoes. In this paradise success cannot be counted by the amount of coins in your wallet, only measured by the amount of happiness in your heart.
"We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community." Paul Bloom
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