As community buildings go, Hirwaun village hall, in South Wales (UK), is nothing special. Its modern and inoffensive brick exterior, complete with solar panels on the roof, sits within the perimeter of a slightly forbidding galvanised steel fence.
The hall hosts the usual variety of community goings-on. Short-mat bowls on Mondays are followed on Tuesdays by a Welsh-language craft club, while Thursdays see practical sewing and Weight Watchers.
