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Here you will find a list of local organisations, their contact details and information about what they do.

Gower Festival

  • Contact Name: Hugh Dunthorne
  • Address: Rosecroft, Port Eynon, Swansea SA3 1NL
  • Telephone: 01792 391506
  • Email: h.l.a.dunthorne@swansea.ac.uk
  • Website: www.gowerfestival.org
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About Gower Festival

If you like high quality music, then you should certainly check out the Gower Festival. Held during the first fortnight of July annually, there are a dozen events, mostly chamber music, and the venues are those lovely Gower churches which you have seen but perhaps never been inside. The music comes from many genres, from baroque to jazz, and in 2023 the festival includes an art tour and art exhibition as well. Ticket prices are affordable owing to generous sponsorship. Several people consider the Festival valuable enough to donate to, to ensure that it thrives.

It is unique in Britain in holding a different event or concert in a different venue each day. Being close to the performers makes the events an intimate experience, totally different from the remoteness of a typical concert hall. With a high proportion of the small audience being regulars, the intervals are social events with old friendships being renewed and new ones made.

With audience numbers generally falling at similar events, the Festival is building on its reputation for excellence and more than half of the 2022 Festival concerts were sold out. Have a look at the website: www.gowerfestival.org. It will be surprising if you don’t find something to your taste. Be sure to book early because the smaller venues sell out quickly. Subscribers (Friends) are given priority booking.

Gower Local Area Coordinator

About Local Area Coordinators

Swansea County has 23 Local Area Coordinators, each assigned to a specific area. Their role is to help people to find advice and support within their community. Anyone can meet with a LAC and they can help local community groups too, helping them to keep going and grow by introducing more people and supporting them with things like finding opportunities for funding. Local Area Coordinators can also support people set up groups when someone has an idea to start something new.

Swansea Council has produced a short booklet providing information about how the Coordinators function, how to contact and meet your LAC and read a few examples about what they do. Click here to read their helpful guide or click on the image alongside.

Gower Seal Group

About Gower Seal Group

Gower Seal Group is committed to protecting and conserving the globally rare North Atlantic Grey Seals that visit Gower. Set-up in July 2021, we are a voluntary group of seal loving people who give illustrated talks on these iconic visitors to a range of local groups and organisations. We also visit schools delivering our Mini and Junior Seal Ambassador programmes. We have members that undertake photographic seal surveys, will rescue sick or injured seal pups, and also look after them before being released back to the wild. In essence, we love everything about seals.

Gower Society

  • Contact Name: Sarah Samuel, Secretary
  • Address: c/o Penclawdd Community Centre, Victoria Road, Penclawdd, Swansea, SA4 3FJ
  • Telephone: 01792 233475
  • Email: gowsocsecretary@gmail.com
  • Website: www.thegowersociety.org.uk

About The Gower Society

Since the Gower Society’s formation in January 1948 the Society has been working for the betterment of Gower as an area of beauty, a rich diverse habitat and a place for people to live, work and visit, to enjoy and enhance its natural qualities.
Gower encompasses not only the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which is on the peninsula, but the whole of the Lordship of Gower which runs from Rhossili to Mawr, North of Swansea. Now a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, it welcomes all new members, local and worldwide who share a love of this rich landscape.

Horton and Port Eynon Lifeboat Station

  • Contact Name: Claire Payne
  • Address: Horton Beach, SA3 1LB
  • Telephone: 01702 390424
  • Email:
  • Website: Facebook or rnli.org
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About Horton and Port Eynon Lifeboat Station

The Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) is a 24-hour volunteer lifeboat service which responds to requests from the UK Coastguard to perform rescues at sea. We operate a shop with seasonal opening hours.

Knelston Primary School

About Knelston School

Knelston Primary School is a small, rural Gower school that puts learning, achievement and well-being at the heart of what we do. We are extremely proud of our school and local community, and believe it is a fantastic environment for children to nurture a love of learning in a caring and happy way. We aim to develop our children into ambitious, capable learners and healthy confident individuals, who can be ethical, enterprising and creative.

At Knelston we aim to create a vibrant and stimulating place in which children develop to be the best they can be.

A WI meeting: Dancing for Health.
Image: Maggie Kirk

Llanddewi with Knelston W.I.

About Llanddewi with Knelston W.I

The W.I. is based on the idea of bringing women together, providing them with education, fun and friendship, trying new activities, and engaging with speakers and campaigns on issues that matter to them. Our work is based on fellowship, truth, tolerance and justice.

We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm at Rhossili Village Hall. We have a wide and varied programme of speakers, demonstrators, trips, garden parties and monthly lunches, and a walking group. You can see our current programme for 2023-24 here. We compete at the local Gower Agricultural Show and also the Royal Welsh Show.

We enjoy social Link Meetings with neighbouring W.I.s in Gower, have Combined Christmas Carol Services at local Churches and Chapels and much more.

New Members are always welcome.

National Trust

  • Contact Name: Alison Probert and Teresa Ansell
  • Address: National Trust shop, Rhossili SA3 1PR
  • Telephone: 01792 390707
  • Email: visit.rhosili@nationaltrust.org.uk
  • Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/rhosili-and-south-gower-coast
  • Opening Hours: Please check website for shop hours.

About National Trust

As the biggest conservation charity in Europe, the National Trust protects and cares for places – including two thirds of the coastline and a significant acreage of land here on Gower – so that people and nature can thrive. Here at National Trust Rhossili our visitor facilities include a large car park, shop and takeaway café. Our warm and friendly seasonal staff are on hand to help you get the most out of your visit to Gower. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Please note, the National Trust Shop at Rhossili closes for the Winter on Sunday, November 5th 2023.

Natural Resources Wales/Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru

About Natural Resources Wales/Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) was formed in 2013, taking over the functions of the Countryside Council for Wales, Forestry Commission and the Environment Agency in Wales.

We are responsible for regulating the waste and water industry, protecting biodiversity, improving water quality in rivers and the sea, managing flood risk and play a role in the management of the Wales Coast Path. We are responsible for forestry in Wales and manage national nature reserves and areas of forest and woodland. We are a statutory consultee on planning applications.

We work in partnership with range of organisations including Swansea Council, the Police and Fire Service.

Pitton Methodist Chapel

About Pitton Methodist Chapel

Pitton Methodist Chapel serves the local communities of Rhossili. Services are held on alternate Sunday mornings at 10.00 a.m. and all are welcome – both local residents and visitors to the area. On the intervening Sundays, services are held at the nearby Horton Methodist Chapel at 10.30 a.m. Special services are held throughout the year such as Easter, Harvest and Christmas. The Chapel is available for christenings, weddings and funerals on request.

Port Eynon Community Council

Website: https://www.porteynoncc.org.uk/

Full contact details on website.

Rhossili Church of St Mary the Virgin

  • Contact Name: Gill Wales, Sub-warden or Caroline Johnson, Treasurer
  • Address: Rhossili, SA3 1PL
  • Telephone: 01792 390575 Sub-warden – 01792 391775 Treasurer
  • Email: stmarys.rhossili@gmail.com – cj2.hampstead@gmail.com
  • Website: www.gowerma.org/st-marys-rhossili
  • Opening hours: Daily

About Rhossili Church of St Mary the Virgin

A bedrock for village life events for a thousand years, this ancient church opens daily for villagers and visitors, offering peace and tranquillity. In an enduring place of prayer and sanctuary, solace is often found by placing a pebble in the prayer pool for a loved one or by leaving prayer requests at the Lady altar.

Services are well attended, providing uplifting experience and worship in God’s presence, followed by coffee, cake and Christian fellowship. All are welcome. Click here for the current service schedule.

St Mary’s is one of six churches working together in the South West Gower Cluster in the Church in Wales.

South Wales Police – Gower Neighbourhood Policing Team

About South Wales Police – Gower Neighbourhood Policing Team

We provide the local policing service for the Gower area.

UK Search and Rescue Organisation

  • Contact Name: Ernie Preece
  • Address: Old Coastguard Station  SA3 1PR
  • Telephone: 01792 390167
  • Email: erniepreece4@gmail.com
  • Website: No website at present
  • Facebook: NCI Worms Head

About UK Search and Rescue Organisation

Our organisation relies entirely on public funding. Everybody is a volunteer, from the chief executive down.  Our focus is to keep the coastline as safe as possible for both mariners of any sort at sea to public on the land. We have a 365 day watch system from our station, starting at 10am every day, until 5pm at the moment, soon to be 4pm. Our priority is to try to reduce the numbers being marooned on Worms Head and then to instigate their rescue if that happens. We also log everything at sea that passes our station.

4theRegion

Telephone: 01792 828660

Email: mail@4theregion.org.uk

Website: https://www.4theregion.org.uk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/4theRegionSouthWestWales

Rhossili Community Hwb & Community Council are pleased to be a member of 4theRegion. On its website, 4theRegion describes itself as “an alliance of people, businesses and organisations across South West Wales, who love where we live and want our region to flourish.

We connect people, share good news and enable collaboration, through our forums, events, projects and comms, for a future that promotes the well-being of people and planet.”

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