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Hywel Dda Health Board | Health Board staff help community projects Staff from Hywel Dda Health Board are committed to making a difference in their community. Hywel Dda Health Board is the only health board in Wales taking part in the UK’s largest day of employee volunteering. Three teams of volunteers from the health board will be out in the community on Give and Gain Day on May 18. The teams, one in each county of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire have chosen projects which will benefit the community.

Projects in Carmarthenshire have attracted more than £40,000 into the county through the Big Lottery Fund Awards for All. A total of 74 community-based projects across Wales share in the £275,429 awarded under the latest round of the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All small grants programme. Eight projects in Carmarthenshire have benefited to the tune of £40,636. The successful schemes are Trallwm Area Forum, which received £5,000; Carmel and District Welfare Club, which received £5,000; Sbri-Ni holiday club, which had £4,980; Carmarthen Women's Aid Limited, which was awarded £4,994; Llandovery University of The Third Age, which received £2,350; Cylch Meithrin Llanddarog, which had a grant of £4,772; Meidrim Senior Citizens, who received £3,540; and Ferryside OAP Association, which was awarded £5,000. The money is helping to establish groups, societies and clubs, promoting learning, increasing volunteering opportunities and helping to build stronger communities. Carmarthenshir...