A team of young people from Britain, Italy and France spent a week of their summer holidays helping to restore Brecon Cathedral.
The group, all aged 16-25, camped at the Cathedral and worked hard on a variety of jobs, from clearing the graveyard to restoring 40 chairs, re-building a wall and erecting and dismantling stages for Brecon Jazz and the Fringe concerts. They also cleared the Old School, Pendre, which is about to be converted into a family centre, run by the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon.
All the campers were volunteers in the nation-wide Cathedral Camp scheme which organizes camps at cathedrals across Britain to give young people the opportunity to experience and participate in the care of some of the greatest examples historic architecture at first hand.
Last year, Brecon Cathedral became the first cathedral in Wales to take part in the scheme, which has been running for 27 years, and the Dean of Brecon, the Very Revd Geoffrey Marshall, hopes other Welsh cathedrals will take part next year.
He said, “It was a real pleasure having the young people with us at Brecon for the week and we are very grateful for all the work they did. It was a particularly busy week for us as it was also the Brecon Jazz festival so we appreciated all the help we could get! I would strongly recommend them to the other five cathedrals in Wales.”
