Trinity Methodist Church

Trinity Methodist Church has become an extraordinary hub for the disadvantaged community surrounding it, providing support and hope to thousands of refugees and asylum seekers each year. A valuable resource and a place to come together for ethnic minorities, the Adamsdown neighbourhood, and the wider community. 

The building is important in heritage terms on its own as a Grade II listed former church with ambitious and characterful architectural features. On its prominent site it also makes a big contribution to the local built environment and will, we hope, help to catalyse improvements to other buildings from the same era nearby. 

The Trinity Centre grew out of the work of the Methodist Church in Cardiff in the 2010s, offering space for those focused on supporting refugees and asylum seekers. At the heart of becoming a Church on the Margin is the forming of inclusive and diverse communities of welcome and hospitality at the margins of society. The vision of the Trinity Centre is to become a hub for communities to gather together, to meet in the spaces between and to become an inclusive and diverse creative, welcoming community through which the transformation of lives becomes possible. Sharing stories, heritage, art, food, recreation, faith and experiences, supporting and enabling each other, restoring and empowering. It is hoped that the Sanctuary Project will create a space fit for such a community, accessible, inclusive, widening participation, valuing those who come through the provision of good facilities, a welcome atmosphere and a wider range of activities and events, projects and groups that can weave together the communities who use the centre with local communities and those in the wider Methodist circuit and beyond.