Awen Cultural Trust is a registered charity. Our purpose is to ‘make people’s lives better’. We do this ‘by providing opportunity for people and communities to experience, enjoy and be inspired together, by culture’.

Awen currently works across three local authority areas in South Wales – Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We operate a range of cultural facilities and activities, which include theatres, libraries, community centres, a country house and park and two work-based projects for adults with learning disabilities. Awen attracts over one million visits to its venues and services each year.