Cwmaman Community First Partnership has identified seven priorities in order to achieve its overall vision. Six of these form part of the Welsh Assembly Community Vision Framework:

The seventh priority is Community Priority brought about through Community Consultation Surveys as the main area of concern of the village:

Within each priority area, we have identified our aims and objectives for the next three to 10 years. Some of these can be addressed directly by the work of the Partnership whilst others can only be achieved by working closer with partner agencies or by creating new partnership ways of working. We have identified key partnerships that we can work with to deliver our ambitions and examples of strategies that have been used to develop and inform the Community Action Plan. Cwmaman Partnership will not duplicate what others are doing, and will only take actions that provide added value to the community, by addressing areas of weakness & conflict. These may be undertaken directly by the Partnership or in collaboration with other agencies to address not just the symptoms but the causes of the problems.

About Cwmaman
Aberaman South Ward is included in the index of multiple deprivation and falls within the top 10% of most deprived wards in Wales, ranking 15th within the top 17 of wards of Rhondda Cynon Taff. The ward is divided into two distinct communities Cwmaman and Abercwmboi with the Aberaman Industrial Estate dividing the two communities to its southern periphery.

Cwmaman’s isolation from many of the main programmes of support aimed at community regeneration has also proved to be an advantage by forcing the community to be self-reliant and entrepreneurial in its approach. The community has a high level of social cohesion and community development skills that have been learnt organically over a long period of time. The high level of activity in the arts and social groups has played a major part in building self-confidence within the community. This small community has also produced national figures of standing including the Stereophonics and Tyrone O’Sullivan of Tower Colliery.

The Community First Partnership Board involving the active community is seeking to develop a strategic approach to tackling the remaining areas of social exclusion within the community and integrating into existing wider provisions of support. It will seek to use the Action Plan to lever additional resources into the community to provide a sustainable future.