Community groups across Wales can now apply for grants of up to £10,000 to help them start a social business or community-led housing project.
For over three years, the scheme has supported Welsh-speaking communities with high densities of second homes, with 64 grants awarded across Gwynedd, Conwy, Anglesey, Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.
Even more communities will now be able to benefit from the grant as it opens across the whole of Wales, with funding increased to £400,000 for this year.
The Perthyn grant scheme has helped Bys a Bawd Pawb set up as a Community Benefit Society in Llanrwst, Conwy, where the community has come together with the aim of buying and running a beloved shop that has served the community for 50 years. The project aims to create a Welsh literary hub, provide affordable accommodation for local people above the shop as well as offering job and volunteering opportunities.
Hwb Penmachno has also received a Perthyn grant award, to help the community with early-stage elements of their community-led housing initiative.
Community groups must apply at the latest by 21 November 2025.
For further information please select the following link: Perthyn - Cwmpas.
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