The Miners Welfare Center

To re-create the meaning of Cwtch as a space which can be for more than an individual. A Cwtch, our catalyst, the community’s way to interconnect the generations through the sharing of stories, of skills, of time together and experiencing our community programmes together.

A Cwtch should be a space that supports and nurtures and that is what we aim to create. One allows the space to become grounded and provide a sense of safety [1]. A place to sing of your past and reconstruct these memories within a space that responds to this purpose [2].

[1] Pallasmaa, J. (2019) The eyes of the skin: Architecture and the senses. Chichester: Wiley.
[2] Bachelard, G. et al. (2014) The poetics of space. New York: Penguin Books. Ch 6, p.1

~ Extracts from Phase 3 (Chatterjee, Dorsman, 2023)