The company that worked on the Pwllypant roundabout improvements is helping a local pony re-homing charity.
The Walters Group recently finished work on the roundabout and has volunteered their services to the Welsh Pony Rescue and Re-homing Charitable Trust.
The charity helps re-home wild horses and ponies found on commons across South Wales.
Commons, such as the one in Gelligaer, have seen a large increase in the population of wild ponies. This has led to overpopulation and overgrazed land, which has left many animals struggling for food and survival.
The aim of the charity is to look after these horses on a number of sites across South Wales, where they then aim to look after and eventually re-home the animals to a loving environment. Currently, they look after 98 horses and ponies in South Wales.
Ponies that come into their care are castrated where necessary, micro-chipped and passported, before being re-homed.
The charity relies solely on donations and the work of its 37 volunteers, who give up their spare time to help the charity.
The engineering company began work recently to help improve the charity’s rescue yard on Caerphilly Mountain.
The muddy floor at the yard will be scraped away and new flooring will be put down, while an area will be flattened to make way for food containers.
An enclosure will also be built to give the horses more freedom outside of the barns.
Sharon Mock, who volunteers with the charity, originally contacted Walters to ask for some scalpings to use at the rescue yard.
The company then offered to help with all the improvement works needed by the rescue yard.
Ms Mock said:”They told us not to spend any money on equipment and materials and that they would do everything for us free of charge.”
She added: “It’s just amazing. It’ll cost them thousands to do this.”
The work is expected to take a week to finish.
The charity is currently looking for carpenters who are willing to volunteer their services to help repair the stables at the yard.