
Cymdeithas Trewyddel
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CYMDEITHAS
TREWYDDEL (MOYLEGROVE COMMUNITY)
Cymdeithass Trewyddel is the village committee established by common consent
to provide a resident's voice to represent the views and aspirations of
the community in furthering its community interests, fostering community
spirit and supporting any joint representations to authority.
In an age of what can be sudden and rapidly changing environmental, social,
economic and demographic forces, any community - even one as small as
Moylegrove - needs to have an organised voice if it is to keep up with,
take advantage of or protect itself from the shifting patterns of the
circumstances that affect its well-being.
Suffering from a shrinking population due to the economic forces that
have affected small rural communities throughout the country, with no
longer any community essential such as a pub, shop or post office, the
village was faced with the loss of it's final heartbeat, that of the school.
So it was that in 2002, the community organised itself with the creation
of Cymdeithas Trewyddel - (C.T.) to fight against the school's proposed
closure. In this endeavour, as with so many other small villages around
the country, it was doomed to be unsuccessful and the school was eventually
closed in July 2003. C.T. however, survived as a representative voice
and began to take on further responsibilities as the need for an organised
body to represent the community grew. For grant qualification purposes
it became a registered charity bound by the rules of a constitution established
by the Charity Commissioners. It has a bank account established for village
funds raised for the benefit of the village with annual reporting accountability
to the Charity Commissioners, thereby ensuring its affairs to be a matter
of public record.
It is made up of ten annually elected full members who are the registered
trustees of the charity for the duration of their elected term. The Committee
has three registered officers, Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, it has
no powers and can wield only goodwill
and consensus.
The Committee meets six times a year at bi-monthly intervals and minutes
are posted on the village notice board in the car park and hopefully in
the near future on this website. Meetings are open and copies of the minutes
available upon request to anyone who may be interested. An AGM is held
in May when the annual term of office ends and a new one begins. New blood
is always welcome.
What does it do?
Pretty much anything required of it connected to the welfare of the village.
It is for instance responsible for having organised and seen through the
long winded legal processes - (three years in total) - associated with
the acquisition of title to the school as a community asset and construction
of an appropriate trust after which it became the principle trustee.
Following two years work alongside Broadband Wales - the Assembly's body
responsible for coverage of the most difficult reception areas in Wales
- through a concentrated and persistent effort of representation including
attempts to establish our own private system, Moylegrove became the first
of the country's 35 black spots to be Broadband enabled - a huge boon
to local businesses. Amongst other things it won a village speed limit
and winter opening for the walkers to the facilities in the car park and
it keeps a watching environmental eye on Ceibwr Bay - our village beach
- for the National Trust as the number of visitors continues to grow.
Cymdeithass Trewyddel maintains a close working relationship with the
two principal community support groups - PAVS (Pembrokeshire Association
of Voluntary Services) and PLANED (Pembrokeshire Local Action Network
for Enterprise & Development). Grant money was successfully applied
for through PAVS to originally set up the much admired village newsletter
and the acquisition and subsequent renewal of computer equipment to publish
it, a job carried out by a dedicated editorial team of volunteers. Modest
funds were also acquired to buy furniture for the school. The acquisition
of grant money is an on-going process as the need for it arises and funds
for rural applications become available from either the Assembly, the
EU or other relevant sources.
Why We Need Your continuing Support
The funds raised from all village events and raffles go towards covering
the running costs and maintenance of the school as an essential village
amenity for us all to use.
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With the volunteer
help of willing villagers, C.T. organises such annual events as the Raft
Race, the Beach BBQ, the village Car Treasure Hunt, Bonfire Night - which
has grown into an area attraction and now needs the services of a pyro-technician
- Christmas carol singing in the Bethel Chapel followed by wine and mince
pies at the car park gathering and Father Christmas with presents for
the kids. It also now organises the growing number of social events held
in the school and if we could find the necessary folk to organise it we
would happily resurrect the tradition of the village carnival.
Significantly, it provides an under-used forum to discuss, debate, air
or publicise concerns, suggestions, problems, disputes, and ideas. It
is hoped this forum will grow now the school has become village property.
It exists for the benefit of everybody and welcomes involvement. More
recently it was responsible for commissioning the PLANED village survey
to assess opinion on a community direction and to help us qualify for
further possible grant money.
Through Cymdeithas Trewyddel, Moylegrove is able to show that it does
have a voice, a heart and a structural core and we hope the foregoing
gives a sense of what the community is about. Thankfully there are still
some willing folk quietly working to keep our community spirit going and
trying to foster awareness that the real essence of any community is involvement,
without which it would be difficult to survive as a unit.
To Moylegrove residents we say, with your continued support we aim to
keep this community alive and if we are to achieve this, your involvement
in community activities is vital. For the moment, as a small community
Moylegrove punches above its weight and we need to keep it that way. No
one has yet come up with a solution to the nation-wide problem of properties
in beautiful places falling into the hands of holiday home buyers and
the de-personalisation and withering of small communities that results.
For Moylegrove the most positive way to combat the process is to actively
support the community events that we can and do promote and encourage
holiday home owners to do the same. Your visible support makes our efforts
worthwhile, maintains our enthusiasm and that of those who help us and
is both welcome and significant in keeping the village heart beating.
After all, the more attractive and vibrant our community the more likely
we are to attract permanent residents to live here.
To visitors we say, you are very welcome and we aim to make your stay
as pleasant and rewarding as possible. We hope you will join in the activities
we promote, enjoy the peace and tranquility of the area and respect the
quality of our environment.
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You can
use the "Contact Us" facility on this website to communicate with
us about anything concerning Moylegrove
or just to establish a dialogue -We would like to know what you are thinking.
You can contact your committee directly through the Secretary - Kingsley Chesworth,
on 881391
or by e-mail kac.chesworth@fsmail.net
Current Chief Officers
Chairman
Peter Fletcher.
Secretary
.Kingsley Chesworth.
Treasurer
.Hazel James.
ENTERTAINMENTS COMMITTEE.
(Formally the Carnival Committee)
C.T. is keen to maintain an Entertainments Committee to have the responsibility
for organising village events. Disbanding of the old entertainments committee
was pretty much organic as members either left the village, suffered illness,
grew old or felt they had done enough. Since then the job has been done by volunteer
members of the Committee on an ad-hoc basis with help from anyone willing and
available at the time.
Meetings of the old committee were very social and informal affairs regularly
held in the St Andrews church hall involving the consumption of modest quantities
of wine for ceremonial purposes - (most brought a bottle, not mandatory but
a charming custom) - and going on for some time after village entertainment
matters had been efficiently and quickly sorted. Its members regularly amounted
to numbers between 16 and 20 depending on rehydration requirements and the state
of the weather.
The passing of these gatherings is to be regretted, they were not only fun but
things got themselves done easily, willingly and in high good humour! We would
love to hear from anyone with the organising ability and time to take on the
job of resurrecting an entertainments committee and we now have the rather more
congenial surroundings of the school in which to gather and commune.
Cymdeithas
Trewyddel Notices
CYMDEITHAS TREWYDDEL
Minutes of the meeting
held on Tuesday 17th January, 8.00pm at the Village School.
Those present
- Peter Fletcher, Kingsley Chesworth, Margaret Anthony, Dorothy James, John
Roberts, Hazel James, Pat Taylor, Patrick Beaumont
Apologies
Keith Matthews, Mike James, Ken Barnaby, Rob Mansfield, Bridget Arnold
Minutes of last meeting
were accepted as a true record of the meetings held on 3rd October and
11th October
Approval of Co-opted
members to the Cymdeithas Trewyddel Committee
Mr Pat Taylor and Mr Rob Mansfield were proposed as co-opted members by Margaret
and seconded by John. The whole committee supported Pat and Rob joining this
committee to assist with our increased workload. Peter welcomed Pat to his first
meeting.
Village Calendar 2013
Peter welcomed Patrick to the meeting. Patrick explained that he is preparing
a village calendar that will contain photographs he has taken of the local countryside
and coast. The calendar will then be sold in support of school funds.
Everyone was very supportive of the idea and thought that the mock up calendar
was excellent. While it was difficult to forecast how many copies should be
produced, it was agreed that we should try 100 initially. If possible it would
be beneficial to increase the size of the date section of the calendar as shown
in the mock up. Patrick said the cost of production was £3.50 per copy
for a run of at least 50.
Patrick agreed to talk to the printer and see if he could also wrap the calendars.
Village talks
Peter thanked Patrick for his excellent talk on diving in the Red Sea. Patrick
outlined plans for the talks to be given by other presenters in February and
March.
Events Review
Fireworks. Peter reported that we had made £740 profit and that over 400
people attended. There have been many reports that young and old enjoyed the
event, particularly the quality of the firework display and the food provided.
There were no significant issues or problems encountered but we do need to consider
next year if we are able to improve the availability of nearby parking and provide
some vegetarian food options.
Christmas Party.
John reported that we had made £400 profit from the Christmas party which
had been so well attended that there were no spaces left. The event had been
very successful and many people commented on the quality of the food provided
and the fantastic decorations in the school. John said we may need to consider
selling tickets for next years event.
Carol Service.
The event had been well attended at the church and then after at the school.
The cost of the Father Christmas gifts given to the children had been covered
by money raised from the mulled wine, mince pies and the raffle.
New and Additional
Events For 2012. A range of suggestions were discussed, such as sports and
entertainment events. For the moment it was agreed that John and his committee
would look at arranging some quiz nights and if we obtain lottery funding they
would look at the possibility of arranging a pre-refurbishment event
prior to closing down the school for the building work.
New village Notice
board
The joiners have nearly completed building the board and they will fit the visitor
information panel. Peter will arrange the installation of the board with the
nominated local builder. It was agreed we need to have an event and publicity
to celebrate the installation of the board.
Coasteering
It was agreed that the details of progress made with the Coasteering organisations,
at the meeting in December, on the control and monitoring of their activities
in the Ceibwr bay area, should be published in the Newsletter and on the notice
board.
School Refubishment
Peter and Kingsley reported that the completed application had been provided
to the Big Lottery on time. The next step is a telephone discussion about our
application with a representative from the Lottery. This will take place on
19th January and will involve Peter and Kingsley.
Kingsley circulated a copy of the final six outcomes we have committed to in
the Lottery application with their associated targets milestones, and timescales.
The next stage is to generate a more detailed plan to confirm the details and
responsibilities for ensuring we deliver each of these. This will be the subject
of a future meeting.
Newsletter
Margaret reported that we had received contributions totalling £502 towards
the Newsletter, this will go a long way to covering our annual production costs.
The possibility of issuing email updates between issues of the Newsletter will
be considered by the editorial team. The next Newsletter will be issued at the
end of March.
Co-operative committee
John said that his team will be looking at planning future events at the school.
Financial Report
Hazel reported that we have a balance of £7,970 in the bank. However,
this includes about £2000 grant money that has still to be paid for the
completion and installation of the new Notice Board.
AOB
Hazel informed the meeting about the 2013 Pembrokeshire URDD Eisteddfod and
outlined that local children will be involved. Each community in the county
is being requested to make donations to this event. It was confirmed by the
meeting that we should donate the £400 that remains in the dormant Ysgol
Fethrin Gymraeg Trewyddel account. This has been held since the play school
closed. The money will be transferred to the Cymdeithas Trewyddel account for
payment. It was also suggested that we should consider holding fund raising
events to increase our contribution.
Next Meeting
To be held on 13th March at 8.00pm