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T-shirt from Rainbow Project South Wales, worn whilst working on a stall for the project during Mardi Gras (later years called Cardiff Pride).

In 2000, a year after the first Mardi Gras was held in Cardiff, the Rainbow Project held their inaugural meeting at Cardiff’s City Hall.  Since the mid 1980s individuals were discussing the need for a community centre in Cardiff for the South Wales LGB community and the Rainbow Project was formed with the aim of establishing a venue.

Although a community centre did not come to fruition the Rainbow Project held events to raise funds and 'enhance the social and cultural life [of]  LGB people in South Wales.'  In 2007 they reported 'It would seem that Rainbow project and plans for a physical centre is no longer a priority for the community.  Times have changed; significant legislative progress has been made in mainstreaming lesbians and gays and sidelining the worst excesses of discrimination.  This is not to say the struggle is over, but that it has changed gear and, for now at least, we do not seek our own safe space with quite the same need.'  In the same year, they merged with the South East Wales LGB Forum.