Exciting new facilities have been created with a £500,000 upgrading and expansion of Narberth's award-winning Bloomfield House Community Centre. Extra opportunities for training, childcare, meetings and social events are being provided with the development of the new Brynmor Evans Resource Centre, named after Bloomfield's former chair and president. The development is to be officially opened today (Friday) by Mr. Evans's widow, Mollie. There's an expanded programme of adult education. Languages, healthy cooking, creative writing and hypnotherapy for relaxation are just some of more than 60 courses being offered this year by Learning Pembrokeshire, the Continuing Education Department of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Pembrokeshire College and the Welsh College of Horticulture. New accommodation and the latest high-tech equipment means more local people are now able to access courses in computer skills by Learning Pembrokeshire Community IT (formerly SIMTRA). A new state-of-the-art seminar room has already played host to a wide variety of users for meetings, launches, training courses and social activities. There have been more than 2,000 users since its first booking in June 2005 when Welsh Assembly Government Minister Edwina Hart came to launch the Social Enterprise Strategy for Wales. There's improved accommodation for the popular and expanding Bloomfield Day Nursery, Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin and the Bloomfield After School and Holiday Club. A start-up grant for the nursery was provided by the GENESIS project. Bloomfield manager Janine Perkins said: "The new developments mean the centre has more to offer local people than ever before. What's special about Bloomfield is that it really is run by the community for the community. "Twenty-five groups and organisations now use Bloomfield regularly for meetings and workshops and the centre is a source of employment for 71 people. New energy efficiency measures have resulted in extra comfort and savings on fuel." Squash, badminton, bowls, five-a-side football, tennis and netball are among Bloomfield's sporting activities. There's a newly-refurbished fitness room and classes for aerobics, ballet, Tai Chi, Salsa, karate and even belly dancing. Grants were received from the Big Lottery, Objective 1, the Welsh Assembly Government, the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, PAVS and the Garfield Weston Trust. Further grants came from the Pembrokeshire Community Building Fund and Regeneration Scheme to develop a reception area and improve the coffee lounge. The Assembly Government has made an extra grant for car parking improvements. And the Lottery funded Awards for All Wales will assist an arts project in the entrance corridors and coffee lounge. Bloomfield House was semi-derelict in 1980 when the Narberth and District Community Association started its conversion to a community centre. Much of the initial restoration work was carried out by volunteers and the unemployed. Bloomfield won the Times/RIBA award for the use of an historic building for community purposes in 1987-88 and a Prince of Wales Award in 1989. The Centre has been assisted by the Leader group SPARC and later PLANED. The late Mr. Brynmor Evans is remembered for his voluntary work and long service to the community at Narberth. Mr. Evans was chair at Bloomfield from 1985 - 1989. He played a central role in Bloomfield's development and oversaw the centre's finances. Mr. Evans was a former treasurer of Dyfed County Council. He was a founder member and chair of the Steering Board of the Taf and Cleddau Rural Initiative, the forerunner of SPARC and PLANED.