Skewen Community Garden will be holding a Pumpkin Carving and Apple Day on Sunday 27^th October in Skewen Park starting at 11am.

During this event, and on behalf of Skewen & District Society, Skewen Community Garden will plant a Mountain Ash tree in commemoration of the fallen from our area during WW1 and WW2. This tree will be a replacement for the two acer trees originally planted in 2016 which were vandalised. The new tree will be located within the safe confines of Skewen Community Garden and we are grateful for their support. Everyone is welcome to attend the event.  The tree planting will take place at approximately 12pm. 

Congratulations to John Richards, Vice-President of both the Skewen and District Historical Society and of the Dyffryn Clydach and Bryncoch Historical Society, who was awarded Honorary Fellowship of The Historical Association’s Swansea Branch. This well deserved award recognises John’s significant contribution to the study and appreciation of history in this area.”

On Thursday, 25th July 2024 at 10.30am in St John’s Church, Neath Abbey, there will be a service to mark 60 years since Canon Brian Lodwick was ordained. Refreshments will be available following the service. All are welcome to attend.

June 2026 will mark the centenary of the opening of Skewen Park. Coedffranc Council will be mounting an event to celebrate this landmark in June 2026. As part of the celebration, the Society will be putting up a photographic display of the park through the last hundred years. However, we need your help with this. Do you have any photographs taken in the park? Any date, any activity, any event – if you will lend them to the Society they will be scanned and returned – contact Anne Morgans on 01792 813300, or email info@skewenhistoricalsociety.org.uk Your photographs will be a welcome addition not only to the photographic display, but to the Society’s archives as well.

If you do not live locally you can email your photographs using the address given above.