For a number of years the WEA has been actively supporting Crafts For Everyone, a highly successful community partnership. A registered charity based in Crumlin, Crafts For Everyone provides work-based training for people with learning difficulties and mental health problems. Funding was initially granted from the Welsh Council for Voluntary Action to set up a craft workshop. The products, such as lamp bases, vases and novelty items, are then sold to the public in the small gift shop. Paying for two craft tutors, the WEA has ensured the project is able to continue providing hands on learning.

There are workshops for children as well as regular craft fairs to promote both products and raise awareness of the project within the community.

Project Manager Margaret Betty acknowledges the importance of WEA support: ‘We haven’t got enough money coming in to pay for additional tutors. I am the only full time paid member, I do the managers job and the development side so I could not take the classes so you can see what the WEA means to us."

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