The Village Cwtch Neath

19/06/2026

We are heading to Party in the Park tomorrow over in Victoria Gardens. (Weather permitting)

Bring a picnic, bring a blanket, and let’s have a catch up!

If you’d like to meet us there, please do. See you around 11am.

Who’s coming? 🌳

15/06/2026

What’s new with everybody?! It’s been too long since we’ve had a cwtch and you’re on our minds.

Unfortunately our building is still temporarily closed due to some repair work going on, but as soon as we can Cwtch again, you’ll know! That does also mean the first Saturday Morning Cwtch this weekend is not going ahead. HOWEVER, it is Party in the Park over in Victoria Gardens and weather permitting, we will be heading over there with some picnic blankets and the kiddos just to chill.

So what has been going on with you? Would love to hear some highlights!

Our son just started crawling and here he is just today pulling himself up on the settee. What?

Our daughter also just started nursery and that’s been a massive milestone. 🥹

We miss you all. Actual cwtches coming your way when we see you next. 💗

08/06/2026

NO BIG CWTCH TOMORROW 😢

Our lush hall is now having repairs done this week and so there will be no Cwtch this week.

Stay tuned for updates.

Weather permitting we will be heading to the Gnoll for a walk n’ talk. 10-11. Meet outside the cafe area.

♥️

05/06/2026

Our upcoming Big Cwtch gathering on Tuesday 9th is cancelled due to urgent work needing to be carried out in our lovely hall.

Weather permitting, we will instead be meeting in the Gnoll for a walk n’ talk between 10 and 11am. Kiddies welcome! Please meet outside the visitors centre at 10.

If you fancy joining us in church this Sunday, pop us a message and come sit by us! Starts 4pm and finishes around 6.

Please keep checking the page regularly for news of our re-opening.

Thanks all and have a lush weekend! 💗

05/06/2026

A quick notice for this weekend:

We kindly ask that the space is reserved for family attending the wedding on Saturday 6th June.
Thank you so much for your understanding and for helping us make this a special day for the couple and their loved ones.

03/06/2026

It’s our anniversary!💗

Exactly one year ago today, on our daughter’s 2nd birthday, we opened the doors to the hall. Truthfully? I had no idea then what this could become in just twelve short months. At the time, I just needed to get out of the house and feel useful outside the walls of my own home. 😅 But ironically, stepping into this space made me realise the deep, undeniable value of the work I was already doing within my own walls as a mam. I just needed a village. And as it turned out, I wasn't alone in that.

Looking back to our very beginnings when we were Little Arrows baby bank, we want to honour every single family and volunteer who walked through our doors. We quickly learned that community isn't just about the physical stuff—though the bundles of clothes and nappies are hugely needed and important.

Cue the Village Cwtch. We’ve cwtched some of you at the graveside of your babies, we’ve cwtched others in hospital when they were days old, we’ve gone to birthday parties, you’ve come to ours, we meet for coffee, forget to text each other back, and the list goes on. What a wonderful privilege indeed.

I also wanted to share a little reflection on our Little Cwtch weeks. Every time we walk in, I swear I forget my own head cos the brain fog is real; but the way everyone just steps into their flow is beautiful. From Cat on the coffee keeping us all alive, Rhian and Vanessa tackling baskets, and Eira ironing like a pro, to Elia and Niamh balancing feeding and sorting, and the toddler-chasing crew (me, Adele, Paige, Meg, and the Ceryses) trying to decipher babygrow sizes for the third time...it’s chaotic, it’s real, and it’s a home-from-home. It’s a Little Cwtch, but there is so much love in what we do. Thank you so much to every single volunteer past and present. You bring the Cwtch to the village in all that you do.

Our son was born in September last year. It would be strange if he still looked and behaved like a newborn today; he has to grow, and he has to change. It’s exciting, scary at times, but absolutely wonderful to watch.The Cwtch is exactly the same. We were a newborn last year, but we are blossoming into our second year. Healthy things grow, and growing things change. As we prepare to launch The Saturday Morning Cwtch on June 20th to welcome working parents, shift workers, dads - whoever!- we know the landscape is shifting. But we have God with us through it all, so we know it’s going to be absolutely lush.

To every single person who has trusted us, cried with us, sorted clothes with us, or grabbed a brew with us this year: thank you. We are in the thick of it together.

If you’d like to share any of your Village Cwtch stories we’d be chuffed to hear them. It’s a Big Cwtch next week so you can save them until then or pop them below 💝

02/06/2026

That pesky pollen count is rising 🌸🤧🍃 So we've been seeing a matching rise in enquiries about hayfever medications and breastfeeding.

The good news is that there are safe and effective treatments to use while you're breastfeeding - check out The Breastfeeding Network Drugs in Breastmilk information service factsheet for full details:

https://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/hayfever/

29/05/2026

Introducing: The Saturday Morning Cwtch!

For a good while now, we’ve been a-dreamin’ about how to reach the families who, for whatever reason, can’t make it to our monthly Big Cwtch on a Tuesday morning. Today, we are super chuffed to share our brand-new weekend rhythm, launching on Saturday, June 20th!

We want our Saturday mornings to have that familiar, warm home-from-home feel, but also have their own unique cwtchiness. Chris and I are drawing on our own experiences as a mam and dad to help shape what this looks like. We are taking the things that feel stressful, the things we miss doing together since having kids, or the things we’d love to try or learn about but just don’t get the opportunity to do anymore—and we’re bringing them straight to you.

This isn’t a playgroup; this is a family gathering.

So whether you’re a mam back in work after maternity leave, a dad working shifts, a grandparent, or even a couple with a rare hour of child-free time while the kids are with family—this space is for you.

Saturdays will be a bit earlier and shorter: 9:00am – 10:30am. Because if you’re anything like us, you’ll have been up since the crack of dawn and lived a thousand lives before 9:00am anyway! (But yet we still struggle leaving the house on time, whaaaat?)

It’s an hour and a half, one Saturday a month, to sit down, put the world to rights, and start the weekend off with a cwtch.

Stay tuned over the next few weeks as we announce some very exciting news about our special "village visitors" and themes joining us on Saturdays!

We can't wait to kickstart the weekend with you on June 20th. There’s a seat at the table waiting.

27/05/2026

Calling all blokes! This one’s for you. Taking place in our building this Friday night

🎯 Beacon – Men’s Social Night | This Friday 7–9pm

Guys, this one’s for you.
Life gets busy, pressures build, and it’s far too easy to drift into isolation — but time together genuinely matters.

Join us for a relaxed night of pool, darts, card games, snacks, and good company.
A space to unwind, laugh, and connect.
Ages 16+

You’re welcome here.

26/05/2026

Everyone having a splashing good time this week? ☀️

What have you been up to? ⬇️

Just a reminder, our next Big Cwtch is June 9th 10:30-1pm. If you need a cuppa and a chinwag before then, why not try the free women’s coffee morning Oasis, taking place in the same building as us THIS Thursday morning?

I’ll pop the link below