Wales: committee decisions, November 2023
SFF Delivery round applications
Menter Ty'n Llan
Applicant: Menter Ty'n Llan Cyfyngedig
Project county: Gwynedd
Project summary: The project aims to develop the Grade II Tŷ'n Llan tavern and garden into an accessible, viable community hub, to provide a wide social, wellbeing and economic benefit to the community, through a programme of activities and hosting community services.
Decision: Award grant of £1,709,456.00 (58.96% of the total cost)
Grant Increase
Flat Holm: A Walk through Time
Applicant: Cardiff Council
Project county: City of Cardiff
Decision: Award grant increase of £1,152,330 (64% of the total cost) to make a total grant of £1,797,530
SFF Development round applications
Clywedog Valley Heritage Partnership
Applicant: Groundwork North Wales
Project county: Wrexham
Project summary: This five-year project seeks to create a unified heritage space along the Clywedog Valley Trail in Wrexham. The project, delivered in partnership, aims to bring together various organisations to restore a number of heritage assets in the Clywedog Valley.
Decision: Award development grant of £246,530.00 (89.41% of total costs) with a potential delivery grant of £1,264,047
The small house with a big story: the restoration of Plas Gunter Mansion
Applicant: Plas Gunter Mansion Trust cyf
Project county: Monmouthshire
Project summary: Plas Gunter Mansion Trust aims to recover the historical integrity and appearance of a 17th-century, Grade II listed building, in order to open access and put it to appropriate use, while also enabling diversification of audiences, trustees and volunteers.
Decision: Award a development grant of £222,340.00 (89.41% of total costs) with a potential delivery grant of £2,784,987.
The Urban Long Forest
Applicant: Keep Wales Tidy
Project county: Cardiff, Caerphilly, Neath Port Talbot and Wrexham
Project summary: Through education and skill development, the project aims to increase community interest and involvement in hedgerow management by focusing on four urban/peri-urban locations having limited nature and/or lacking habitat connectivity: Cardiff, Caerphilly, Neath Port Talbot and Wrexham.
Decision: Award development grant of £171,559 (95% of total costs) with a potential delivery grant of £759,615.
Sarah Briscoe House Transformation
Applicant: Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council
Project county: Powys
Project summary: The project aims at expanding and transforming the Grade II listed building to promote community engagement for a long-term sustainable use.
Decision: Award development grant of £112,846 (88.44% of total costs) with a potential delivery grant of £1,113,276.
Cysylltiadau Cleddau Connections
Applicant: Pembrokeshire Local Action Network for Enterprise and Development Limited
Project county: Pembrokeshire
Project summary: The project seeks to explore, share and celebrate the complex and often contradictory landscape, ecology, heritage and culture along the River Cleddau (Afon Cleddau), with a view to connecting the community to its shared heritage, leaving a legacy of better-connected and more resilient communities.
Decision: Reject