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only costs £1. Drop into Ty Bro Dyfi or send some stamps.
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like to get involved in staffing it or in helping to run a project. Please
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Communities First is a major flagship Welsh Assembly Government programme
aimed at cutting poverty and helping to improve the lives of people who
live in the poorest areas.
It is a long term programme that will run for at least ten years, and
will allow local people themselves to decide what is needed, and help
them to make it happen.
Communities First aims to get local people involved in improving their
areas, to bring in funding and other support from a range of sources,
to encourage new ways of dealing with problems, and to involve everyone
in working together to make their communities better places in which to
live and work.
The Powys part of the Dyfi valley (Machynlleth, Cadfarch, Glantwymyn
and Llanbrynmair) is a Communities First area.
The Assembly has a long-term commitment to supporting work to address
poverty, social exclusion and lack of access to services in this area.
It insists that the programme of work is created by the community itself,
through processes that include everybody. We are helping to get these
processes going.
Communities First Bro Dyfi now has a formal partnership
with Cyril Breeze Evans as the coordinator and Sian Britland as administrator,
who joined in October 2004.
For further information visit the Communities
First Powys web site by clicking here.
Contact Cyril at Ty Bro Ddyfi, 52 Maengwyn Street, Machynlleth, Powys,
SY20 8DT, Tel. 01654 700315; Email: Cyril@powys.gov.uk.
What is a regeneration programme?
Regeneration programmes like Communities First seek to create satisfying
and appropriate work for local people through taking a broad approach.
This encompasses formal and informal training and includes helping people
to gain confidence by involvement in activities which may seem far removed
from job creation. Improving community facilities and the environment
are integral parts of this, so long as they aren't just "delivered" by
outside agencies.
We're determined to carry out such work in a sustainable manner. Here
are some thoughts to help explain what this means and how it might differ
from any other kind of community regeneration:
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Local needs must be met within a long-term vision.
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This implies attention to global as well as local environmental
quality and stability (e.g. climate change), to the robustness of
the local economy (e.g. encouraging local purchasing) and to the capacity
of local people to take responsibility for the future.
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Activities should deliver simultaneous economic, environmental and
community benefits wherever possible.
- They should not focus narrowly on one subject area but make connections.
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