Volunteers Help Improve Sensory Nature Space at Swansea Resource Centre
By Community Correspondent
An outdoor sensory space used by people with physical and learning disabilities has been improved at Swansea Vale Resource Centre following a community volunteering day.
Volunteers worked at the centre in Swansea Vale, which supports around 30 people each week through activities, wellbeing sessions and social opportunities.
The site is also home to a physiotherapy team, which uses the outdoor area to support mobility, rehabilitation and wellbeing.
During the volunteering day, work was carried out to improve access to the centre's sensory nature space, helping make it safer and easier to use for wheelchair users.
A new riverside platform was also completed. Staff say the space will be used for activities including storytelling, mindfulness sessions and outdoor learning linked to the nearby river.
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Volunteers raised and levelled parts of the ground in the sensory area and planted around 20 shrubs and plants to improve the environment and encourage biodiversity.
Jessica Richards, environmental management advisor at National Grid Electricity Distribution, said:
"We live and work in the communities we serve, so it is really important to us that we help create places that people can benefit from every day.
"Spending the day volunteering was a real reminder of how much difference small, practical changes can make. Improving access to this space means more people can enjoy being outdoors, feel calmer and get more out of the activities the centre offers."
The improvements form part of a wider environmental programme at the centre, which includes measures to reduce flood risk, improve wildlife habitats and increase biodiversity.
An orchard has also been created at the site, with 50 trees planted, including 14 fruit trees.
