Grant boost for Carmarthenshire business
A rural Carmarthenshire business has expanded the services it offers thanks to a grant from the Rural Conversion Grant Fund.
Roger and Simone Broome, the owners of Penybanc Business Services are celebrating a £30,378 grant to convert redundant calving shed and dairy buildings into meeting, event and conference facilities.
The enterprise, which was set up earlier this year as a spin-off business from the adjacent Ceridwen Centre, has officially opened its new business premises at Drefelin, Drefach, Felindre.
Carmarthenshire County Council is behind the Rural Conversion Grant Fund which is aimed at creating jobs and regenerating rural parts of the area.
The authority has received funding to deliver the project through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013, which is funded by the Welsh Government and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
The Penybanc Business Services project will safeguard two and a half jobs and create one new full-time position.
Owner Roger Broome said he was delighted with the grant funding and that it had been a longstanding ambition to develop the old dairy and calving shed.
He said: “Having established the Ceridwen Centre in 2004 the business has grown year on year, but due to limitations with regard to flexibility of use and available space the business has been unable to satisfy a demand for catered courses, midweek business day courses, meeting and function room bookings and multi group bookings.
“The establishment of Penybanc Business Services and development of the buildings will enable the concurrent delivery of activities, delivery of fully catered courses and events, the development of management training and team building courses, and meeting and function room hire.”
The Rural Conversion Grant is part of a major package of funding to support businesses in Carmarthenshire.
The council’s project officer Mike Bull said: “The aim of the grant scheme is to assist the physical and economic regeneration of rural Carmarthenshire.”
Regeneration executive board member for regeneration and leisure Cllr Clive Scourfield said: “The Rural Conversion Grant provides entrepreneurs in rural areas with the opportunity to expand safeguard or establish their business.
“It marks a major step forward in the ongoing regeneration of the county and supports the innovative work that the council is leading to support and develop our communities.”
Roger and Simone Broome, the owners of Penybanc Business Services are celebrating a £30,378 grant to convert redundant calving shed and dairy buildings into meeting, event and conference facilities.
The enterprise, which was set up earlier this year as a spin-off business from the adjacent Ceridwen Centre, has officially opened its new business premises at Drefelin, Drefach, Felindre.
Carmarthenshire County Council is behind the Rural Conversion Grant Fund which is aimed at creating jobs and regenerating rural parts of the area.
The authority has received funding to deliver the project through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013, which is funded by the Welsh Government and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
The Penybanc Business Services project will safeguard two and a half jobs and create one new full-time position.
Owner Roger Broome said he was delighted with the grant funding and that it had been a longstanding ambition to develop the old dairy and calving shed.
He said: “Having established the Ceridwen Centre in 2004 the business has grown year on year, but due to limitations with regard to flexibility of use and available space the business has been unable to satisfy a demand for catered courses, midweek business day courses, meeting and function room bookings and multi group bookings.
“The establishment of Penybanc Business Services and development of the buildings will enable the concurrent delivery of activities, delivery of fully catered courses and events, the development of management training and team building courses, and meeting and function room hire.”
The Rural Conversion Grant is part of a major package of funding to support businesses in Carmarthenshire.
The council’s project officer Mike Bull said: “The aim of the grant scheme is to assist the physical and economic regeneration of rural Carmarthenshire.”
Regeneration executive board member for regeneration and leisure Cllr Clive Scourfield said: “The Rural Conversion Grant provides entrepreneurs in rural areas with the opportunity to expand safeguard or establish their business.
“It marks a major step forward in the ongoing regeneration of the county and supports the innovative work that the council is leading to support and develop our communities.”
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