{"id":30864,"date":"2018-12-14T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=30864"},"modified":"2018-12-14T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:41:15","slug":"the-centre-that-opens-its-doors-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/12\/14\/the-centre-that-opens-its-doors-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The community centre that opens its doors for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30876\" style=\"width: 769px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-30876\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"769\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30876\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"769\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-4-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/noscript> Darren, left, and others last Christmas Day. Courtesy of Maes Y Coed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>TUCKED AWAY in Jubilee Gardens in the north of Cardiff, near and Industrial Park and beside a residential estate is Maes Y Coed Community Centre. Darren Smart, one of the trustees, spoke to The Cardiffian about how they\u2019re opening again for those who are lonely this Christmas.<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cChristmas is a lovely time of the year, but what if you haven\u2019t got anyone?\u201d is the poignant message Darren Smart, one of the trustees at Maes Y Coed Community Centre, made when I first met him. Darren, aged 49, seems like your everyday person. However, what he and the Centre are doing is so much more than just ordinary.<br \/>\nOn Christmas Day they are opening their doors again for those who are spending it alone to offer relief, entertainment and company for all ages from all walks of life.<br \/>\nMaes Y Coed Community Centre is delightfully welcoming; those involved and using the centre have a genuine interest in people and that\u2019s apparent in everything they do.<br \/>\nAt first glance you may miss it, but the centre is quaint. Warm and welcoming on the inside, an award-winning garden and 4G pitch on the outside, it truly is a hub for the community.<br \/>\nDarren began by telling me of how well received the previous years were: Local families baked cakes, volunteers offered to help entertain the guests, and they received goods and treats from the nearby Co-op. \u201cIn the first year, the amount of people that turned up was probably around 50, not all of them were on their own but a lot of the local community came in with their families to give us some support\u201d he said.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30877\" style=\"width: 623px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-30877\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30877\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-Y-Coed-2-4-3-edit.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/noscript> Each year the event has had more volunteers and guests. Courtesy of Maes Y Coed.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDarren is a family man, with two children aged 8 and 11, who works at the BBC when he\u2019s not at Maes Y Coed. As he stopped to chat with the people in the centre, you can see he \u2013 and everyone else in the centre \u2013 are genuine people who care about the community.<br \/>\nEvery year the Christmas event has grown. They\u2019ve received more donations, more volunteers, and more people spending their Christmas day there. \u201cSo, we thought obviously there is a need for it &#8211; hence why we are now in our third year,\u201d he chuckled.<br \/>\nIt isn\u2019t just older people that spend Christmas alone, there a lot of younger people too. \u201cLast year we got a lot of younger people who are on their own, it was nice to see not just the elderly coming in but people of all ages.\u201d<br \/>\nResearch from Age UK last year, showed that around a million older people are lonely at Christmas, not seeing or hearing from anyone for days over the festive period. The same study said that 1.4 million people aged over 65 admitted that Christmas Day wasn\u2019t special for them and just passes them by.<br \/>\nEven though the event was originally designed for those spending the day alone or who have fallen on hard times, it is open for all. The centre has had families, couples, people working away from home all come along in the past to spend some time together.<br \/>\nThe event is from 3 pm until 6pm \u2013 but Darren says it does often go on longer than that. \u201cIt\u2019s like a big community party.\u201d They open their doors, singers and a ukulele band provide entertainment, and food and drink (including some booze) is offered out.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a free-for-all,\u201d he jokes.<br \/>\n\u201cThe satisfaction of doing it is unbelievable, days on your own are going to be long anyway, but Christmas day must seem so much longer. So, just to do that for a few hours it\u2019s great.\u201d<br \/>\nDarren\u2019s Christmas is centred on his family and what the centre are doing, he often brings his children along with him.<br \/>\n\u201cIt teaches them a little bit about giving back to other people, so hopefully when they get older, they\u2019ll do the same\u201d, a notion that is taken up by others.<br \/>\n\u201cPeople bring their kids to teach them something: that it\u2019s about giving rather than just receiving\u201d.<br \/>\nDarren spoke of the time one lady who was spending Christmas alone and living out of her car came along. They provided her with company, comfort and even gave her a gift.<br \/>\n\u201cWe managed to give some money too, so she could go find a hostel for the rest of the festive season\u201d he added.<br \/>\nAfter that Christmas she came back to volunteer with the community centre, so what Darren and the others at Maes y Coed are doing has become<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30878\" style=\"width: 565px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-30878\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30878\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/12\/Maes-entertainment-4-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/noscript> The event has entertainment for its guests. Courtesy of Maes Y Coed.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nmuch more than just giving, it\u2019s inspiring people to give back, too.<br \/>\n\u201cWe help other people out as well that we probably don\u2019t really know, because a lot of people who come and volunteer, we find out they\u2019re actually on their own, but they don\u2019t like to say\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe never ask, we never say \u2018you can only come in if you\u2019re on your own\u2019 we welcome anyone in regardless, because you never know people\u2019s personal circumstances.\u201d<br \/>\nThe centre used to be run by the council. The community took it over by community asset transfer a few years ago and is run entirely on a volunteer basis. As a not-for-profit organisation it is entirely self-funded. The money it makes from events it hosts, goes toward paying the bills and developing the centre.<br \/>\nIt runs classes and activities that appeals to a whole range of people, such as sports and fitness classes, sewing and knitting, gardening and flower arranging.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are truly a community centre\u201d Darren says after telling me everything else the centre does \u2013 and they host a whole range of activities and events throughout the entire year.<br \/>\nEverything they do is, as their motto says, \u201crun by the community, for the community\u201d and it\u2019s not just for Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUCKED AWAY in Jubilee Gardens in the north of Cardiff, near and Industrial Park and beside a residential estate is Maes Y Coed Community Centre. 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