20 YEARS

2021 marks an incredible 20 years since we opened the doors to our premises in Mumbles.

The vision then was to have a place in Mumbles that was run by and for young people. Young people chose the name Red Cafe and we set about running all sorts of open access youth work giving a whole range of opportunities to try new things and a safe space to socialise.

20 years later we have decided on a name change to Red Community Project to reflect that, while we still have a focus on supporting young people with our Create courses, cafe-style youth nights and Red Media film making, we are also running a whole range of projects with and for people across our city.

Swansea Foodbank supports people experiencing food poverty, Musical Memories Choir supports people living with dementia and carers, and our parent and toddler group and play schemes support children and families.

Over the next weeks and months we want to celebrate our 20th anniversary, tell the story of some of the inspirational people and projects we have had the privilege of being involved with over the last 20 years and to share our hopes for the future.

About Red Community Project

Our mission is to bring people together and help build good relationships. It’s straightforward grass roots stuff really. We love the fact that one of Swansea’s goals is to be a city where everyone matters because that’s just what we think too. Every person is important!

Maybe one of the words that best sums up what Red Community Project is all about is shalom. It’s one we’ve borrowed from Hebrew culture and it’s pretty difficult to translate into English in less than a paragraph! The nearest we can get are words like wholeness and completeness.

It’s about well being.

And not just on the outside but on the inside too.

In hearts and spirits.

It’s about peace,

health,

safety,

soundness

and harmony.

We like the idea of possibility and we are excited by what is yet to be! Inspired by faith and energised by hope we believe that Red Community Project can be a place of discovery, development and shalom.

RED PROJECTS

Foodbank

Living Well Swansea

Musical Memories Choir

Schools Work

The Spotlight Project

This is Me

Thursday Community Meals

Warm Wednesday

West Cross Youth Club

Fair Trade and Sustainability

Whether its fruit juice, chocolate, peanut butter, pasta, rice, jam or rubber gloves there are all sorts of fairly traded products regularly used by Red Café. Producers in poor countries receive a fair and stable price or wage for their goods. So buying Fair Trade is a way of doing something to bring about a better, more generous world. Now that's something we think sounds worth doing.