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A Carmarthenshire village hall and church will be snug in the cold weather following grants for new roofs and heating. Following a recent round of funding, Llanddarog Village Hall Institute and St John’s Church in Pontyberem were both successful in obtaining a grant from the Welsh Church Fund towards roofing and heating costs ensuring that their venues will continue to host comfortable community meetings and events all year round. In addition, Llanelli Wanderers RFC received a Welsh Church Fund award towards the construction of their new community facility. Administered by Carmarthenshire County Council, the Carmarthenshire Welsh Church fund is available to churches, chapels, charitable organisations and individuals for grant support for the following purposes: advancement of education, libraries, museums, art galleries etc, relief of poverty, advancement of religion, and other purposes beneficial to the communities. Individual Grant Support is also available for the advancement of t...

An exciting new project aimed at helping parents and carers is being launched in rural Carmarthenshire next week. The first session of Sgiliau Byw (Life Skills) will take place at the Cylch Meithrin in Llanddarog on Monday November 7. This is an innovative project working with parents, carers and pre-school children to improve literacy, numeracy, communication and general parenting skills through a series of activities which emphasise learning through fun. Sgiliau Byw will take place over six weekly sessions which are based on specific themes, including basic cookery, living a healthy lifestyle, exercising and keeping fit, sharing books and stories and singing nursery rhymes. Sgiliau Byw project manager Nerys Burton, of Menter Cwm Gwendraeth, said: “We will be working in pre-school settings including mother and toddler groups, family centres, community centres, heath centres and other community venues in villages and market towns across the county to enable all parents to have the o...