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Play Service summer awards

Schools and Learning
A group of people pose outdoors. Two people in the centre are holding an award shield and a certificate, while others stand or kneel around them.

First Young Leaders complete programme

About the Council
Two men standing outdoors in a park area with trees in the background.

GCSE success for adult learners

Schools and Learning
Two ladies one being a adult learner standing together indoors, with one holding a white paper with her gcse results on

Exams success for pupils

Schools and Learning
pupils holding there gcse results

Food and Fun camps get ministerial visit

Schools and Learning
group of children at the food camp in a hall holding up drawings that they made

Funded childcare to increase

Schools and Learning
Smiling young girl with her arms raised, with text reading ‘Get ready for nursery. Small steps. Big confidence.’

Plans to improve canal water levels

Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing
Temporary dam on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal north of the Basin

Summer camps help children prepare for secondary school

Schools and Learning
Children enjoying lunch at the moving up camp

Adopt a patch to help tackle Himalayan balsam

Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing
Volunteers clearing invasive Himalayan balsam from a densely overgrown woodland area.

Pontypool Towns Together action day

Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing
Before and after images showing overgrown vegetation cleared from public walkways and planted areas in Pontypool.

Create a Buzz in your community

Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing
Create a buzz poster showing wildlife and flowers

Volunteers support Torfaen families with play

Schools and Learning
Volunteers and children at the Pop in and Play session