Save Our Stute! Cefn Fforest Miners

We are Cefn Fforest Miners Institute! Built and commissioned by the miners of Cefn Fforest for the benefit of their community, for self education, social welfare and recreation.

Thanks @mayrbsn for yr thoughtful @BBCRadio3 doc showing what's motivated our community to bring the miners 'stute back to use. A building 'charged with meaning'. You captured the heart +dedication of the efforts. A people determined to shape their future bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Thank you @wyattandwallace Electrical for installing the brilliant heaters for our hall, just in time for winter ❄️ ⚒️

Dear friends, Some of our volunteers will be running the Bath Half Marathon on October 15th to raise funds for the Stute, please consider sharing and donating! gofundme.com/f/bath-half-ma…

Excited to share our Max Boyce special tomorrow night 6.30. Thanks to Max's generosity, it's a heartfelt celebration of an incredible career, his mining roots, his poetry and more. It'll raise a laugh no doubt, and draw a tear! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @BBCWales @maxboyceMBE bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

GETTING PLASTERED ON A SUNDAY MORNING! A big Cefn Fforest thank you to local lad Luke Fronwen, for giving up his Sunday morning to come and plaster one of our walls in our soon to be community kitchen 👨‍🍳

A little before and after from today- volunteers worked hard today tidying up the frontage, making sure all the old stone is sorted and available to re build wall in future. Looks a lot neater we hope you agree? Best to all friends x

History reveals itself again ! Under the banner was the rugby club sign but under that today we discovered the carved stone CFWI 1930 as in photo, not sure the last time this was visible must be decades ago, we love it! Best to all friends x

Brilliant night to raise funds for the renovation of the Cefn Fforest miners institute. Thanks for organising @CFforestStute +for playing #RemnantsofOz. Hopefully there'll be nights like this in the Stute itself! #workingclass #miners #community

Noson arbennig gan @CFforestStute i codi arian i achub y sefydliad y glowyr Cefn Fforest. Diolch i'r pwyllgor am drefnu a'r band bendigedig #RemnantsofOz. Edrych ymlaen cael noson fel hyn yn y Stiwt yn fuan! #dosbarthgweithiol #cymuned

An Evening of live music, raising funds for the restoration of our Stute. With live music from REMNANTS OF OZ On Friday 30th June, 2023, we will be hosting a live music event, with all ticket money going towards the restoration of our Our Stute TONIGHT! £5 at the door

This Saturday June 24th we will be collecting for the stute at Ystrad Mynach Tesco from 9.30am onwards. Please support us with any spare change. We will be just inside the main doors. Pictured: Cefn Fforest communal kitchen raising money for the 1926 strike

An Evening of live music, raising funds for the restoration of our Stute. With live music from REMNANTS OF OZ On Friday 30th June, 2023, we will be hosting a live music event, with all ticket money going towards the restoration of our Our Stute

A massive miners thank you to Simon James and his crew for removing a lorry full of boulders and stones from the stute this week! Local workers helping a local cause ❤️🛠

Thank you @MsMorganJones for such a thoughtful article on a working class community's journey + current efforts to save their Miners Institute. You've beautifully depicted the vision+determination of #CefnFforest people @BBCWales @itsmyshoutltd @CFforestStute @CoalfieldsRegen

"Sometimes a community is far bigger than the sum of its parts, never more so than when those parts come together to connect the past to the future" nation.cymru/culture/save-o…

And of course I had to wear my #FriendsOfCefnFforest #SaveOurStute shirt. Oakdale Miners used to be just 2 miles away from our iconic building. See the ongoing project to save it here @StFagans_Museum @BBCRadioCymru @BBCRadioWales m.facebook.com/groups/3594146…

Pleasure to meet up with @iforapglyn to record a chat +my poem about Oakdale Miners Institute as part of @StFagans_Museum 70th anniversary. How lovely to get the chance to share the poem about the significance of this building w/ children from #YsgolDyffryArdudwy @BBCRadioCymru

Braf i cwrdd @iforapglyn i recordio sgwrs a cherdd am sefydliad y glowyr Oakdale fel rhan o @StFagans_Museum #70oed @BBCRadioCymru Gwych i rhannu'r cerdd am y bwysigrwydd y stiwt yna gyda plant o #YsgolDyffrynArdudwy

We raised a whopping £307.93 at our Blackwood Asda's fundraiser! A big thanks to all our volunteers that made the effort to come, and those generous Blackwood folk who donated to our cause 🫶