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Positive action in your area - putting the 'C' back into Community

Positive community activity continues in earnest across Wales’ Communities First areas. If you are looking for ideas to make your community a better place, here are some of the ways in which small amounts of funding recently awarded can go a long way.

 

Positive action in your area - putting the 'C' back into Community

Positive community activity continues in earnest across Wales’ Communities First areas. If you are looking for ideas to make your community a better place, here are some of the ways in which small amounts of funding recently awarded can go a long way.

 

Sometimes service delivery is dependant on transport. Sometimes the service is transport. Either way, it’s important for third sector groups to get motor-vated and ensure their transport is carbon efficient, cost-effective and meets its duty of care obligations. As well as considering the environmental impact of your vehicles and your volunteers’ vehicles, it’s up to you to ensure each vehicle is roadworthy.

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A community in rural Wales has won funding that it hopes will lead to a communication ‘dead spot’ finally being overcome.

Residents and businesses in the sparsely populated West Wales village of Tregaron and the surrounding uplands have been without cellular service due to phone providers considering the area commercially unviable.

In response, a local community group has developed ambitious plans to purchase its own cellular masts, and lease space from the masts to major providers like Vodafone.

Rhyl Football Club has won funding of £120,000 to provide training and jobs for unemployed people in the area.

The money has been awarded to the club’s Football in the Community scheme through a project run by Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) which is targeting economically inactive people with support and employment opportunities.

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