A participant from Ty Cymorth session creating a pot using a pottery wheel with facilitator Sam Hood

Past Projects - 2025 Year

PSU in Carmarthen

In 2025 we increased our activity programme at Carmarthenshire Living Well Centre thanks to funding from Arts Council Wales.  We now run weekly Arty Afternoons, Story Care & Share, Elevenses and started launching a new choir and Men In Conversation.

A woman stood up sharing her story holding her script. She is wearing red.
An Elevenses dementia session which is doing a silent disco. The teacher and the participants are wearing headphones listening to music and moving. Most people are sat down.
The teacher is leading a gentle exercise movement class for Elevenses. Most people are sat down around or near round tables and lifting their arms in the air.

Louise Bretland-Treharne - Warm Tears in the Cold.

In Macrh 2025 we supported one of our most dedicated participants, Louise Bretland-Treharne to launch her autobiographic story here at PSU. 

We are proud to support PSU member Louise Bretland-Treharne on her journey as an author, who has published her second book.

Louise has been an integral member of People Speak Up since we first started, especially supporting her through Story Care and Share on a Wednesday. Her second book was a personal story called, Warm Tears in the Cold, and shares her journey from childhood, being a nurse, to then being entrapped within the psychiatric system as a patient for 21 years, and the heartbreaking story of the impact that had on her life.

International Women's Day 2025

We held a dedicated International Women’s Day event at PSU with our partners Llanelli Multicultural Network and Llanelli Town Council. We brought people to come toegther and sharing real stories, music, snacks and share advice & support.

Time for Me, Time for You

In early 2025 we teamed up with the Carers Trust Crossroads West Wales for Carers to run support sessions at our second home at Carmarthenshire Living Well Centre. 
Time for me, Time for You offered support to carers and the person they care for on their Dementia Journey.

The sessions provided a welcoming safe space to meet other carers, get advice/support, free refreshments and take part in activities, while we ran creative sessions for their cared for in our supervised activities room next door with our trained creative facilitators.

Care, Share, Connect : Community Storytelling Pembrokeshire

In 2025 we worked with Pembrokeshire Storytelling / Straeon Sir Benfro & PSU and supported by Enhancing Pembrokeshire – Pembrokeshire County Council to use oral Storytelling to connect Pembrokeshire residents through delivering friendly, inclusive community storytelling events, active learning workshops and one-to-one storytelling to those isolated/unable to travel.

Move & Make

Over the course of three months we worked with artsists Stirling Steward and Lisa Evans to deliver movement and art sessoins in rural West Wales, Pembrokeshire. We delivered after school once week at the Canolfan Hermon Community Resource Center, Hermon, Glogue, Pembrokeshire for young people aged 8-13.
The aim was to use movement, dance, craft and arts to help support emotional wellbeing. 

Move & Make was supported by BBC Children In Need
“Registered charity in England and Wales (802052) and Scotland (SC039557)

International Children’s Day

Every June, PSU celebrated International Children’s Day at it's Arts, Health & Wellbeing Hub. In partnership with Llanelli Multicultural Network and Llanelli Town Council we host a free event with stories, music and free family activities.

Parthian Bookshop Pop Up

We supported Parthian Book Shop Pop Up in Llanelli to deilver workshops and some of the spoken word activity as part of the  Creative Writing and Poetry Showcase. 

Shadows Depression Support Group

In early 2025, Shadows Depression Support Group set up a drop in session at home in Llanelli. Since then, once a fortnight the support group is available for advice and support at our Arts, Health & Wellbeing Hub.

The CAE - Salsa

In Summer 2025, PSU had a fortnightly Salsa take over run by The CAE. 

PSU becomes fiscal hosts for Local Motion Carmarthen

In 2024 we were delighted to be the fiscal hosts of the Local Motion Project – a Project managed by Social Activist Artist Owen Griffiths.

The project is based at Y Stiwdio, Woods Row, Carmarthen and is working with the people of Carmarthen through a programme of social activism.

Ty Cymorth - Carmarthen

In October we teamed up with Ty Cymorth to run free arts and creativity sessions from our second home at Carmarthenshire Living Well Centre, Park Dewi Sant, Carmarthen.

We created a time and well-being space for people living with a life-limiting illness to come together through creativity. 

Anti - Vaping Campaign.

Over the last few months, we have been running series of bilingual vaping awareness and preventative workshops at DrMZ, led by spoken word Artist Duke Al and Tobais Roberston, supported by Carmarthen Youth Project, DrMz youth workers and People Speak Up creative facilitators.

The young people created their own spoken word and music campaign in response to the workshops and what they had reflected on. Just listen to these words from our young people involved.

Anti - Vaping Campaign is in partnership with Dr Mz youth Club, Carmarthenshire Living well centre, smoking and wellbeing practitioners, Hywel Dda Health Board

Arts Boost 2025

The project was for children and young people in west Wales who were known to the Specialist Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (S-CAMHS).


It was a joint project between S-CAMHS service, arts and health team, and three arts partners, Span Arts in Pembrokeshire, Small World Theatre in Ceredigion and us.


Arts Boost is part of a national arts and mind programme, supporting health boards across Wales to improve mental health. It is funded by the Baring Foundation and the Arts Council of Wales.