Heritage Lottery Fund

Screening of “Black Gold” Edwardsville, Treharris

in Uncategorised, Community Group, Community Interest Company, School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Miners, Exhibition, coal, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Vision Fountain and Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery had a very full screening of the HLF funded project “Merthyr’s Black Gold” today. We had the entire primary school of over 200 children attending the first screening. The second screening was attended by around 25 relatives and parents and about […]

Merthyr’s Black Gold – in the news

in Community Interest Company, Charity, School, Education, Miners, Exhibition, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr’s Black Gold, vision Fountain’s project in collaboaration with Cyfarthfa Museum and Art Galler and Heritage Lottery Fund in the news. The project featureed in the Western Mail’s Week-End magazine and on Walesonline. See link: Walesonlinelink Thanks to Will Hayward for covering this important ongoing project.

Edwardsville Primary come to Cyfarthafa Castle Museum

in Uncategorised, School, Education, Audio Visual Education, Miners, 3-d, workshop, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Last week was Edwardsville Primary School’s chance to experience an audio visual workshop at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. Over 40 children attended the full day workshop. They brought in lots of stories that their relatives had told them, they took photographs of one another in costumes related to […]

First Audio-Visual Workshop with Cyfarthfa Castle Museum

in Education, Audio Visual Education, 3-d Render, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle

Vision Fountain and Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery held the first audio-visual heritage workshop with Ynysowen Primary School as part of the HLF funded Merthyr’s Black Gold project. During the workshop the children drew items related to their coal heritage, recorded stories that their relatives had told them and […]

Working with Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & The Heritage Lottery Fund

in Miners, coal, workshop, Heritage Lottery Fund, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Community Workshop

Vision Fountain have started a project about Merthyr’s Coal Heritage called “Merthyr’s Black Gold” with project partners Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and the Heritage Lottry fund. Four primary schools and two scout troops in the area will be actively involved in the project. We will be teaching the young learners how […]