Solar Pavilion
This year we have begun work on our inspiring new project to permanently house our Solar power installation and provide us with much needed secure storage.
The electricity generated will supply our local farm, the national grid and of course each year our Dance Camp. Looking to the future we hope that this build will constantly supply clean energy and provide a lasting legacy to the Camp.
The funding is coming from profits put into safekeeping from the early years of Dance Camp and from our Auction held at Camp in 2018. We always keep a quota of funds back as a buffer for emergencies but that leaves us short of the total needed to complete the build.
If you would like to donate to help us complete please use the donate button at the bottom of this page.
To help us with the build please get in touch via the Get Involved page and select Core Group with your message, many thanks.
More pictures will be posted soon to keep you up to date.
Another gorgeous day on the field, making progress on the pavilion. We put the last few boards down on the floor and started cladding the East wall. Thanks to Kate. Back again next week if anyone is free to lend a hand. Or come along for a few days 4th 5th and 6th June, when we will have a scaffold tower to work higher up on the gable ends. If you live further away we have the offer of staying at the Pencoed centre. Bring bedding and food. Come and join the fun.!
Spring gathering at Pencoed over the bank holiday weekend yielded some great energy: working on the field, sawing firewood, permaculture garden, compost loos, and getting the new floor laid in the solar pavilion! Many thanks to all who came and gave their time.
Lovely day on the field putting down the first floorboards. Great teamwork.
The first phase of cladding, Southside with windows. Many thanks to Graham, Tristan and Kate Proudlock, for sawing, hammering etc. in the sunshine. (We used a lot of screws too, but I didn't want to give the wrong idea).
"Call from the woodyard, our cladding timber is being sawn today and ready to take over to the field. Very excited. I will post some pics when I get the chance. Next few weeks will be getting the walls built. I have made some oak window sills from a tree cut down by my neighbour. I managed to get it sawn into planks after about a year of trying, and it has been seasoning in a stack for a year in our barn. We will have walls and windows, hooray !"
Bobby
Ready for the walls to go on.
Waiting for the cladding timber from the sawmill apparently, it is getting harder to buy standing timber because so much is being bought up for bioenergy.
Fabulous teeshirt weather on the field this week, boiling the kettle for tea on a wood fire.
Had a fun day with diamonds!
If you would like to help us please get in touch via the Get Involved page and select Core Group with your message, many thanks.
Roof sheets all on today, another great team effort. Thanks so much to all who came along.
Those big diagonal braces are temporary, to make it hold still while we put the roof on in really quite high winds.
We had fun.
Wall frames almost complete now, big thank you to Jashan, Netta and Penny Shipman for works on the field this week.
Rear wall framework of the Solar pavilion almost complete. With thanks to Roger and Netta for great teamwork today.
If you would like to help us please get in touch via the Get Involved page and select Core Group with your message, many thanks.
Today ground anchors have been secured in preparation for the next phase of the build.
These anchors are driven into the ground with a hydraulic breaker and then like a harpoon they turn in the ground and lock. They will make sure the building stays put in high winds.
Ty Pren has completed the main floor beams. The next phase of the project is getting the roof and walls on, so the frame can dry out ready for the floor. We are very much in need of helping hands with this, so if anyone can offer some time on the field it will help make it happen. Bobby will let folks know the days we will be there please get in touch and let us know you are up for helping us. If you would like to help us please get in touch via the Get Involved page and select Core Group with your message, many thanks.
