The annual CTMUHB Seren Awards celebrate outstanding dedication, collaborative working, and initiatives that make a real, lasting difference to health, wellbeing, and community strength across our region.

What is the Treherbert Initiative?
The Treherbert Initiative brings together public health teams, local grassroots organisations, and residents to create a healthier, fairer, and more connected community. By addressing health inequalities at a local level, the project focuses on place-based development—ensuring support, creative spaces, and wellbeing opportunities are built with the community, not just for it.

As part of this partnership alongside partners like CTM Public Health and Grow Rhondda, Valleys Kids has helped drive grassroots engagement, offering welcoming spaces, youth and family support, and opportunities for local voices to lead local change.

Winning the Seren Award for Inclusion & Respect
Receiving the Inclusion and Respect Award is a powerful validation of what can be achieved when health services and community organisations work hand in hand.

The award recognises how the Treherbert Initiative prioritises:

True Community Inclusion: Ensuring every resident—from young children to older adults—has access to support, creative activities, and social connection.

Mutual Respect & Co-Production: Listening directly to local lived experiences to shape health and wellbeing solutions that work for the Valleys.

Breaking Down Barriers: Tackling health inequalities by making community spaces accessible, safe, and supportive for all.

A huge thank you and congratulations to Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB, the Public Health team, our co-partners, and—most importantly—the brilliant people of Treherbert who bring this initiative to life every day.

This award belongs to our whole community!