One Of Our Many Spaces At The Hanging Gardens
The Hanging Gardens café occupies an incredible indoor garden space
THE CAFÉ
Is open at least five days a week between 10.00 and 4.00. It is also open on Mondays for volunteering and some Sundays in winter for our Soup-er Sundays events (free simple lunches and a hot drink).
The cafe was the first part of the project to be completed.
It is a welcoming space where you do not need to rush – come and enjoy the relaxing atmosphere with your group, family, children, computer, book or dog.
We have a minute kitchen – highly impractical! So our lovely staff work against the odds to bring you excellent food, sourced as locally as possible. One day we’ll get a proper kitchen!
Some local suppliers;
Milk ; Daisy Bank Farm
Meat ; from Williams Family Butchers.
Vegetables; herbs, some salads, from our own garden
How to be involved; Volunteer in the café. Use the café for a pop up evening event. Do you have cultural origins that are not British? Talk to us about putting on a special evening in collaboration with our team to learn something of your food and culture.
The Hanging Gardens Community Workshops Provide space to learn new skills and practice old ones
THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
The theatre was opened in 2023 and hosted over 200 events I its first year. It is a small intimate space for performance (max 100 people), still evolving as volunteers work on it! We aim to have a wide variety of different types of performance to suit all ages and backgrounds.
The restoration of this space was funded by the Postcode Community Trust, National Lottery, The Ashley Family Foundation. We are indebted to the latter for the ongoing support of our theatre manager which has made bringing such a wide variety of events to the venue possible. A number of our events each year are funded by Noson Allan – Night Out Scheme.
How to get involved; If you are a musician – come and support our monthly open mic and meet other musicians in the area. Sign up to our monthly newsletter or our Facebook page to see what events are coming up. Start you own group – whether it be for performance, films, philosophy or discussion. Hire the space for a meeting, wake, wedding. Volunteer in the bar at performances or to help with IT support to groups. Join the steering group to help organise events and performance.
The Hanging Gardens Community Gardens is a space to Get your hands dirty, or relax with a coffee and cake
THE COMMUNITY GARDENS
Cultivate built the first community gardens here back in 2015, making derelict space productive and beautiful. We have continued their work, building micro plots for individual growers, a glasshouse and shed. One of the volunteers has constructed a beautiful arbour and another of Cultivate’s original volunteers still maintains the fruit bushes and wildlife area.
The ramp makes the garden and café now accessible to wheelchairs.
We are so grateful to all our funders that have helped transform this space; Local Places for Nature (Powys County Council), The National Gardens Scheme, Grow Wild (Kew), Social Farms and Gardens (Tyfu Powys Project). We have loved working with all these groups on different parts of this project. As the building work comes to an end we are still creating new opportunities for growing and wildlife – making the whole site more attractive.
How you can be involved. Take a plot (no vacancies at the moment), volunteer in the garden on Mondays afternoons, 2.00 – 4.00, come and relax with a cup of coffee in this peaceful space! (garden always open).
We host a wide range of performing arts at The Hanging Gardens
THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
The theatre was opened in 2023 and hosted over 200 events I its first year. It is a small intimate space for performance (max 100 people), still evolving as volunteers work on it! We aim to have a wide variety of different types of performance to suit all ages and backgrounds.
The restoration of this space was funded by the Postcode Community Trust, National Lottery, The Ashley Family Foundation. We are indebted to the latter for the ongoing support of our theatre manager which has made bringing such a wide variety of events to the venue possible. A number of our events each year are funded by Noson Allan – Night Out Scheme.
How to get involved; If you are a musician – come and support our monthly open mic and meet other musicians in the area. Sign up to our monthly newsletter or our Facebook page to see what events are coming up. Start you own group – whether it be for performance, films, philosophy or discussion. Hire the space for a meeting, wake, wedding. Volunteer in the bar at performances or to help with IT support to groups. Join the steering group to help organise events and performance.
Comning to Llanidloes by Easter 2025
BETHEL ST MARKET
The Presbyterian Chapel, empty for more than two decades, is to be opened up for public use again as an indoor market. Builders have been working through 2024 to restore the Chapel and have it ready for use by Easter 2025. A generous grant from The Transforming Town Initiative and funding from the Moondance Foundation, Foyle Foundation and Davies Charity have saved this lovely heritage building from demolition.
The purpose of this project is to boost the local economy – with microbusinesses inspired by the land, encouraging the growth of local small enterprise – both growers and crafts people.
How to be involved; Join the steering group to look at strategic development of this project. Be a stall holder. Volunteer in the market.
