Small Steps - Strata Florida

Strata Florida Abbey is a major, but largely underdeveloped heritage site of Welsh national as well as international significance. In 2016 the Strata Florida Trust (SFT) purchased the Mynachlog Fawr farmhouse and buildings to the south of the Abbey.  SFT’s purpose is to conserve the listed buildings and create the Strata Florida Centre (SFC).

The purpose of the Small Steps community-led project by Strata Florida Trust is to identify and co-ordinate a series of activities using and promoting skills centred specifically on heritage, building on local capacity within the community of Pontrhydfendigaid and its bro.

The project will work with the Community Liaison Group and the People’s Collection Wales to create two posts; a par time Community Engagement Officer for 24 months, to have responsibility for delivering the Small Steps project and will work to the Trust Chairman.  This will be supported by another part-time post for 24 months to assist with administration of the project.

It will be a major step in drawing together, cataloguing and making ready some of the rich Welsh region heritage for use in the proposed Centre. This will be a mechanism for supporting the local community by affirming and reinforcing its historic identity as well providing a process of economic regeneration through heritage by supporting the aims of the Strata Florida Trust at a critically important stage in its development of the Centre.