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Golygfa Gwydyr runs its projects on seven hectares of the forest known locally as the Caerdroia. Initially an open air theatre project, events have now expanded to encompass environment, education and training, health and wellbeing, and proposals for community enterprise.
We are working with Conwy Council on a proposal for the second round of the Rural Development Plan (RDP) 2011-2013. This will enable us to increase our training and health activities in the forest and staff the facility in Llanrwst. We are also negotiating with Forestry Commission Wales to increase the size of our forest site and gain more management control over what happens there.
Our aim is to re-unite the community with the forest so that it can be used as a resource to tackle unemployment, health and wellbeing issues, and social exclusion in the rural Conwy area. Rural Conwy needs a skills base relevant to opportunities and resources available locally. Rural communities used to fully engage with forests and woodlands in order to be sustainable: for work; for products they need; and for pleasure. Re-establishing this link is one way to tackle the social, economic and environmental problems we now face in rural Wales.
We are always looking for volunteers, if anyone is interested in forest based activities, training or social schemes, or has a woodland enterprise idea they want to develop, we would like to meet and talk.
Golygfa Gwydyr would like to acknowledge the support of Forestry Commission Wales, Conwy Council, Conwy Voluntary Services Council, Environment Wales, Branchlines and the Arts Council Wales.
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