R&M Williams and Valley Veterans: Growing Something That Matters

R&M Williams and Valley Veterans: Growing Something That Matters

This week, Freya Church and Andrew Carpanini of the R&M Williams team visited Valley Veterans in Ton Pentre, a charity we’ve supported for a number of years and one that’s close to our hearts.

Valley Veterans is a veteran-led organisation that has grown from a small PTSD support group into a thriving community of over 140 active participants. Through equine and horticultural activities, a weekly breakfast club, and a strong network of mentors and partners, they provide veterans with the practical skills, purpose, and connection that makes a real difference to mental health and wellbeing.

Their Equi-Grow Project takes this further still, bringing together equestrian, horticultural, and social enterprise activities into a structured two-year programme, with plans to expand capacity and reach a far wider veteran and community cohort across the South Wales Valleys.

As part of an upcoming R&M Williams project, 10 Silver Birch trees will be carefully rehomed to the Equi-Grow site rather than being lost to development. Trees that would otherwise be uprooted will find a new home somewhere they’ll genuinely matter.

A big thank you to Paul Bromwell and Nigel Locke for showing us around and sharing the vision for what this space can become. We can’t wait to see the trees planted and the project grow.

To find out more about Valley Veterans and the Equi-Grow Project, visit www.valleyveterans.org.