Grants
NEW Community Grants Programme
Bargoed Town Council will be happy to receive applications to the Community Grants programme from April 2026. The maximum grant to be awarded will be £500 per application with community groups and voluntary organisations able to apply to the programme once each year.
For details of the full terms and conditions of the Community Grants Programme, please refer to the Policy document below.
Applications will be considered by Full Council at their monthly meetings except during August 2026 when the council is in recess.
For your application to be considered, please complete the application form in full and submit it to the clerk by email at your earliest convenience. Bargoed Town Council reserves the right to close the Community Grants Programme at any time. Grants will be made at Members discretion until the budget is utilised.
Application forms can be obtained from any Bargoed Town Councillor or via the link below.
Please ensure you read the Town Council Community Grants Guidance Notes detailed within the link before you apply.
Community Grant Application Form
Grants Awarded in:
2025/26 – £250 was awarded to each of the following:
Gilfach Ladies Bowls Club
Bargoed Male Voice Choir
Platfform for Change
Valley Daffodils
Bargoed Welfare Bowling Club
AFC Bargoed
Margaret Street Allotments
Aberbargoed Ladies Choir
Bargoed Gardening Club
Cylch Meithrin Aberbargoed
Aberbargoed Old Friends
St Davids Foundation
Welsh Housing t/a Shelter Cymru
Oakland Hall Allotments
Bargoed and District Amateur Boxing Club
Heol Fargoed Allotments
Discretionary Grants were made in respect of VE Day Community Celebration Events delivered by:
Aberbargoed Community Action Team £500
Aeron Court and Aeron Place Residents Association £600
Donations were made to:
Wales Air Ambulance
Teenage Cancer Trust
Llangollen Eisteddfod
Urdd Eisteddfod
Wales Air Ambulance
Hope Rescue
Bargoed Town Council Supported Key Community Venues with Winter Fuel Bills as follows:
St Gwladys Church Hall £500
Cartref Community Hall £500
Gilfach YMCA £500
Gilfach Bargoed Community Centre £500
Support was provided to:
St Gwladys Church Hall Fareshare Foodbank £500
St Peters church Rhymney Valley Foodbank £500
Swansea AFC Community Fund – Everyone Deserves a Christmas Appeal £350
The Parent Network Uniform Bank £500
YYFM £250
Llamau Bargoed £250
Sparrows Memorial Bench for Hefin David £100
Swansea AFC Community Fund – Everyone Deserves a Christmas Appeal £250
2024/25 – £250 each to:
29.10.24 Oakland Hall Allotments
26.09.24 Margaret Street Allotment
19.09.24 Parent Network
29.07.24 East View Allotments
29.07.24 Aberbargoed Ladies Choir
29.07.24 Taraggan Educational Gardens
29.07.24 Aberbargoed Community Action Team
29.07.24 Bargoed Male Voice Choir
29.07.24 Platform for Change
29.07.24 Knit and Natter Club
29.07.24 Bargoed Community Choir
Donations to:
23.10.24 Cerebral Palsy Cymru
29.10.24 YYFM
29.07.24 Eisteddfod Y Cymoedd
2023/24
Small Grants to:
29.02.24 Target Ovarian Cancer £200
15.02.24 Oakland Hall Allotments £200
30.11.23 RV Foodbank Grant £500
30.11.23 Fareshare Foodbank Grant £500
26.10.23 Aberbargoed Community Action Group
26.10.23 2353 Ystrad Mynach Air Cadets
26.10.23 Taraggan Educational Gardens & Nursery
26.10.23 Valley Daffodils
26.10.23 Aberbargoed Residents Association
26.10.23 Bargoed Male Voice Choir
Donations to:
29.02.24 Hope Rescue £100
31.01.24 Inside Out Cymru £1,200.00 cost of living grant for arts and crafts
25.01.24 YMCA £500.00 cost of living donation – winter fuel bills
19.12.23 Platfform £500.00 cost of living donation – warm space provision
19.12.23 Cartref Community hall £500.00 cost of living donation – winter fuel bills
19.12.23 Gilfach Bargoed Community Centre £500.00 cost of living donation – winter fuel bills
4.12.23 Valley Storehouse at St Gwladys Church hall £1,338.00 cost of living grant to provide for the service continuation
30.11.23 Fareshare Foodbank £500.00 cost of living donation
30.11.23 Bargoed Royal British Legion £400.00 donation
30.11.23 Rhymney Valley Foodbank £500.00 cost of living donation
26.10.23 Wales Air Ambulance £500
26.10.23 Cerebral Palsy Cymru £250
28.09.23 Salvaged Creations £243
2.08.23 Eisteddfod Y Cymoedd £250
1.08.23 Gilfach netball club £250
1.08.23 Bargoed & district gardening club £250
1.08.23 Bargoed Community Choir £250
1.08.23 Cartref Tuesday Club £250
1.08.23 East View Allotments £250
1.08.23 The parent network £250
1.08.23 Thriving Communities CIC (Hengoed Happiness & Wellbeing Group) £250
26.07.23 Heolddu Big Box Bite £250
May 2023
King Charles III Coronation Event Grants:
Bargoed Welfare Bowls Club £500
Other grants:
Rhymney Valley Foodbank £500
Fareshare Foodbank £500
April 2023
King Charles III Coronation Event Grants:
A & A Club £450
Valley Daffodils £500
Cartref Community Hall £400
March 2023
King Charles III Coronation Event Grants:
Aberbargoed Community Action Team £500
St Gwladys Church Hall £500
St Margarets Church Children’s Group £500
Other grants:
Ty Hafan Childrens Hospice £200
Ty Fry Allotments £250
January 2023
Knit & Natter at Cartref Community Hall £250
Oakland Hall Allotments £250
December 2022
Bargoed Salvation Army (donation) £100
CCBC Operation Santa Appeal £600
Wales Air Ambulance £500
November 2022
Rhymney Valley Foodbank £500
St Gwladys Fare Share Foodbank £500
October 2022
Eisteddfod Y Cymoedd £250
September 2022
Bargoed Gardening Club £250
Bargoed Community Choir £250
July 2022
Rhymney Valley Foodbank £500
St Gwladys Fare Share Foodbank £500
Tuesday Club Cartref £250
Taraggan Educational Gardens & Nursery £250
Margaret Street Allotment £250
Thriving Communities CIC (Hengoed Happiness & Wellbeing Group) £250
East View Allotments £250
Bargoed Male Voice Choir £250
January 2022
Aberbargoed Community Action Group £250
Ty Fry Allotments £250
Oakland Hall Allotments £250
December 2021
Wales Air Ambulance £500
November 2021
CCBC Operation Santa £500
July 2021
St Margaret Street Allotments £250
Valley Daffodils £250
Rhymney Valley Foodbank, Aberbargoed £600
January 2021
Ty Fry Allotments Aberbargoed £250
East View Allotments £250
November 2020
St Gwladys Fare Share Foodbank £780
September 2020
Oakland Hall Allotments £250
January 2020
Bargoed and District Arts Society £100
Ty Fry Allotments £200
Bargoed Male Voice choir £150
June 2019
St Margarets Flower Arranging group £200
Oaklands Hall Allotments £200
Heol Fargoed Allotments Association £100
Aberbargoed Buds Juniors Football £200
Gilfach Community Centre Activities Group £200
May 2019
Cartref Ladies OAP Group £50
Aeron Court OAP Group £50
Aberbargoed OAP Group £50
September 2018
Heol Fargoed Allotment Association £300
Bargoed Male Voice choir £150
Bargoed Crime Prevention Panel £300
Gilfach Ladies Bowls £150
June 2018
St Margarets Flower Arranging group £300
Bargoed Bowls Club £300
May 2018
Bargoed Art Society £200
Caerphilly People First £400
December 2017
Oaklands Hall Allotments £300
October 2017
Heolddu Gymnastics Club £300
Bargoed Gardening Club £300
Gilfach & Bargoed Youth Club £300
Gilfach & Bargoed District Table Tennis £300
September 2017
Aberbargoed AFC £300
Tarragan £500
June 2017
Aeron Court OAP £50
Rhymney Valley Young @ Heart £50
Aberbargoed OAP £50
St Margarets Flower Arranging group £200
May 2017
Gilfach Ladies Bowls £300
Heol Fargoed Allotments £300
AFC Bargoed £300
April 2017
Ty Fry Allotments £300
March 2017
Bargoed Art Society £200
