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Name? Donna Mead Position at Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund CIC? Director Tell us a bit about your job history? I have been a registered nurse for more than 40 years. My jobs have entailed working in clinical practice, educating nurses and other health and social care professions or researching health care. I…

This is the first of a monthly item we are doing for you to get to know the team at Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund CIC. We will feature all of the Board of Directors and staff. First up Glenn Bowen – Board Director Who are you? Glenn Bowen Position at Pen y…

The Vision Fund is also now well and truly open for business and proposals are coming in thick and fast. If you have project idea that is a bit out of the ordinary and has the potential to make a real and lasting difference, we would love to hear from you! The Vision Fund offers…

We are delighted to be supporting the following projects with awards from our Vision Fund. Pontrhydyfen RFC – a grant of £27,792 as a contribution towards their ‘Lighting a Lasting Legacy’ project. The project is to develop a floodlit training area / mini and junior pitch on the Rhyslyn. This project also supported by the…

The 2nd round of the Micro Fund is now open! Community groups, social enterprises and new/developing businesses are eligible to apply for grants from £300 – £5,000. The closing date for applications is 5pm on Monday 14th August 2017. Find out more about the Micro Fund and how to apply here: https://penycymoeddcic.cymru/the-micro-fund/ If you have…

We’re pleased to announce that the Vision Fund is now open and Expressions of Interest are invited! This Fund offers grants over £5,000 (capital and/or revenue) to support activities that are bold, imaginative, ambitious and generally a bit out of the ordinary! We’re looking for proposals that have the potential to make a real difference…

The first round of our Micro Fund grant awards is now complete, and we were pleased to have had a huge response – thanks to everyone who submitted applications. We received 122 proposals, requesting at total of £390,000. As we had only £127,000 to allocate this time, competition was very strong and the assessment Panel…

The first round of our Micro Fund grant awards is now complete, and we were pleased to have had a huge response – thanks to everyone who submitted applications. We received 122 proposals, requesting at total of £390,000. As we had only £127,000 to allocate this time, competition was very strong and the assessment Panel…

If you’d like to learn more about the Fund or are planning to submit either a Micro or a Vision Fund application, we’ll be out and about in your area in the next two months – come and say hello!  You just need to get in touch and let us know which date and venue…

To support and manage the Community Fund, the Pen y Cymoedd Community Interest Company Board members have been busy appointing two new members of staff: Barbara Anglezarke is the Executive Director of the Fund, responsible for day-to- day management and strategic leadership. Barbara has managed grant programmes in both the voluntary and public sectors, has…