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Our COVID emergency funding has now awarded £220,270 to businesses, organisations and groups in the fund area to assist with essential, survival costs during COVID crisis. If you want to chat to the team about potentially applying, you can contact us here or email enquiries@penycymoeddcic.cymru As well as the Survival Funding, we have also given…

Communities in the Fund’s area of benefit have a dedicated Supporting Communities Team, providing development support to Pen y Cymoedd fund applicants and grant recipients. One of the key pieces of work over the last 12 months has been developing Community Profiles capturing baseline data using existing knowledge, surveys, profiles and community plans. We have…

We have now supported 14 organisations with grants of £107,640.99 to support delivery of services responding to community’s needs during the COVID crisis. Is your organisation helping the community in a new way during this crisis in the upper Cynon? So far we have supported food banks, arts and craft packs, gardening packs for community,…

It’s all change for the Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund Board with two new members joining and one central member leaving. This is all part of our commitment to ensuring that membership is refreshed over the life of the Fund – regularly bringing in new Directors with new skills and perspectives. No Board…

The Project Fund: to support additional services that meet immediate community needs and we have now supported 8 organisations with funding of £67,000. 2 Projects have been supported in the Upper Neath (£9,000) / 2 Projects have been supported in the Upper Afan (£14,956.64) / 3 Projects in the Upper Rhondda (£34,670.00) and 1 Project…

Who is this month’s Local Hero?   Bob Chapman and all staff and volunteers at the Upper Afan Community Help Hub (Cymer Afan Community Library)   What have they been doing?   In Cymer (population c4,500) in the Upper Afan Valley, the library re-opened six years ago as a community-run organisation with around 20 volunteers…

Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund is making emergency, fast-track funding available for organisations in the Fund area. There are two strands: •Survival Fund: to provide emergency cashflow funding for organisations at risk of closure •Project Fund: to support additional services that meet immediate community needs In the first two weeks we have supported…

Not the easiest time to be starting a job, but we are more than delighted to be welcoming Michelle Noble to our small (currently separated and remotely working) team this week, as our brand-new Enterprise Support and Finance Officer. Michelle will be responsible for advising and supporting business applicants (commercial and not-for-profit), from those at…

During these difficult times we are very excited to be announcing the results of Micro Fund Round 7 which were considered in March! As ever, we received many more applications than we were able to support. 65 applications were submitted requesting a total of £260,000. £110,364.37 has been awarded this time to 23 community groups…

Who is this month’s local hero? Nathan at The Play Yard, Treorchy. What have they been doing? Nathan started as manager of The Play Yard in late 2018 when Valleys Kids took over the run-down facility as a social enterprise. Since then, Nathan has worked tirelessly to improve and enhance the facility adding a children’s…