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Due to our funding from the Communities @One scheme coming to an end, the Carmarthenshire Connect project closes at the end of March 2009.Over the past 18 months, Carmarthenshire Connect has worked with 56 community groups from Communities First areas helping them to take photos and make videos of their activities and publish them to the Carmarthenshire Connect blog. In that time, over 300

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Tuesday night saw the eagerly awaited premier of two films completed by the young people of Pantyffynnon.Carmarthenshire Connect has worked with two youth groups in Pantyffynnon over the past year to help them create their own community videos.The Ffynnon Las Youth group completed their video last September which highlighted how their were perceived in the local community and the Parcyrhun Youth

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Tyisha & Dock Mixed OAP Branch has been successful in applying for an Awards For All grant for a heritage appreciation tour of Cornwall and Devon.The group will be researching the Cornish tin-mining industry that once supplied Llanelli's tinplate works. In the late 19th and first part of the 20th century, Llanelli was known as Tinopolis and was once the tinplate centre of the world.Those on the

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From Felinfoel and Glanymor & Tyisha Communities First: Felinfoel Communities First teamed up with Glanymor & Tyisha Communities First to hold an Environmental Awareness day on 22 January 09. Residents from both areas including pupils from Bryngwyn School enjoyed a fun and informative day.There was a slight change of plan last minute when Johnstown Recycling Centre cancelled due to staff having

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The New Llanelli South Road Racing Pigeon Club has been established for 12 years and is a member of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association.The club is based in Felinfoel and members meet at The White Lion. The pigeon racing season runs from April to September and divided into two, with races for older birds set for the first few months and younger birds during the last few months. This year the club

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From Glanymor & Tysiha Communities First: Glanymor and Tyisha Communities First held the F-5 Event (Faith, Food, Fashion and Fun Festival) sponsored by the Social Justice & Regeneration Department of the Welsh Assembly Government, on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at the Antioch Centre from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.The Event was the first of its kind that included workshops by Dyfed Powys Police, the

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The film show that Lost Communities held on Saturday at Morfa Social Club was a huge success - over 100 people attended.The group showed their DVD, called Bwlch-y-Gwynt and Machynys ~ Memories of Lost Communities, made by them with support from Carmarthenshire Connect.Lost Communities group members hold the DVD, with Glanymor & Tyisha Communities First Development Officer Faye Davies (front right

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The Dig Up the Blackmountain Day was an exciting and interesting event held on Saturday in the Black Mountain Centre in Brynaman which Carmarthenshire Connect attended. The event was organised by Creu-ad in partnership with the Fforest Fawr Geopark to raise awareness of the Geopark status given to the western side of the Breacon Beacons back in 2005, and aims to create and further reinforce its

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Carmarthenshire Connect recently met with the Treftadaeth Brynaman Heritage Group based in Brynaman to help them promote their work on the Carmarthenshire Connect blog.The group was set up by a small group of local residents in 1998, and having being run successfully for the past ten years has been going from strength to strength. The group want to actively encourage and develop an interest in

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To celebrate International Women's Day 2009, Communities First staged an event at Morfa Social Club today.Running from 10 until 4pm, the day was opened by Nia Griffith MP and started with performances by Copperwors School choir, Lakefield School recorder group, Morfa Infant School with a Welsh Folk Dance and Bigyn Primary School with disco dancing. Then there were poetry readings, followed by a

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Carmarthenshire Connect has been working with Llwynhendy Events Committee to establish a Llwynhendy Community Blog. The blog is supported by Llwynhendy Communities First, who are set up to contribute to the website. The Backs to Basics group and Samba Band are also set up as contributors. The site is still in its early stages, but once all the groups involved in the Communities First programme

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The Bwlch-y-Gwynt and Machynys Lost Communities group will be holding an event on Saturday where they will be showing their DVD that was made with support from Carmarthenshire Connect and Glanymor & Tyisha Communities First.This is the group's news release: Bwlchygwynt and Machynys Lost Communities Group have been working hard over the last year making history by putting together their own DVD –

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Following the completion of the filming with the young people of Paryrhun on the 'IBU You be Me' project, the group worked very hard to edit and complete their film through a final workshop last Wednesday. (Rhia and Rhunedd editing their film)The exciting project looked at the different perceptions between young people and adults in the communities and gave an opportunity for both the young

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We asked some of the people who attended today's launch of the Mount, what they thought of the building and what it would mean for community groups in Carmarthenshire. Aled Davies, Llwynhendy Communities First Co-Ordinator Rae Coope Sue James-Davies from Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services (PAVS)

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Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary Services' new base at The Mount Voluntary Action Centre has been officially launched.The centre was opened by Gwenda Thomas AM, who unveiled a plaque.Here's a video of the unveiling: Gwenda then addressed the audience with a speech highlighting the value that volunteers bring to society and the new opportunities offered to Carmarthenshire's voluntary and

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CAVS new Carmarthen Offices at the MountThe new home of the Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary Services (CAVS) will be officially unveiled on Friday. The Assembly’s Deputy Minister for Social Services, Gwenda Thomas AM, will start proceedings at the launch of the service at the newly rebuilt Mount building in Carmarthen on February 27.An open afternoon is being held at the building

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In Felinfoel, the Senior Citizens group celebrated Pancake Day by holding an pancake tea at the Tirynys residential complex. Each table photographed each other using Carmarthenshire Connect's mobile phone camera. Here are the photos they took:The event was supported by Sheltered Scheme Officer Andrea Goodall (centre left)Raffle winner Joan holds her prize

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Members of Ty Enfys Family Centre celebrated pancake day yesterday with a pancake lunch and a pancake flipping competition.Here are some of the photos taken by centre members using Carmarthenshire Connect's mobile phone camera: The flipping competition begins!Adam tries out pancake flippingCongratulations Cheryl on winning the competition with a staggering 75 flipsFamily Centre Co-ordinator

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Carmarthenshire Connect met the Felinfoel branch of the Girls Friendly Society a few weeks ago.The Girls Friendly Society was established in 1875 within the Anglican Church. It has become an international movement helping young women to help themselves by giving them opportunities to develop their potential ,persue ambitions and grow in confidence. The Society works with girls and women of all

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The young people of Parc Yr Hun Youth Group have now successfully completed the filming required for their IBU You Be Me video. The youth group interviewed each other and older residents of Parc Yr Hun, with the twist that younger residents were pretending to be older residents and vice versa. Then everyone gave feedback as to whether the stereotypes impersonated gave a realistic picture of

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Carmarthenshire Connect has started working with the Parc yr Hun Youth Group on a new video project.The group initially worked with Pantyffynnon Communities First to create a video idea: the young people decided that they'd like to make a short video about the how the older and younger residents of Parc yr Hun perceive each other.Carmarthenshire Connect met with the group last week to plan how to

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Cwmgorse Village Forum met with Upper Amman Valley Communities First, WREN, Groundwork and children from Cwmgorse Primary School yesterday to mark the start of work on the new Cwmgorse Community Heritage Garden.This is the Forum's press release:A number of volunteers from the village of Cwmgorse have recently been successful in securing grant funding to renovate a disused piece of land at the

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This Tuesday saw the final Pumpkin Patch Cookery Class for children in the Antioch Centre, Glanymor & Tyisha. Organised by Communities First and delivered by Lisa Fearn from the Pumpkin Patch the last of the three sessions was again a great success with over 20 children and their parents attending from all areas of the local community to put their learning hats on and cook!For this final session,

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To celebrate World Wetlands Day 2009, the Glanymor & Tyisha Environment & Regeneration Action Group held an educational trip to the National Wetlands Centre Wales in Penclacwydd, Llanelli. Arriving at the visitor centreGlanymor & Tyisha Communities First supported the group with the planning of the trip. A tour by a member of the centre staff was organised. The tour was a good way of finding out

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Ffrindiau Felinfoel held a meeting in January to plan their programme of community and fundraising events for 2009.As you can image, it was a busy meeting for the group, but members took out a few minutes to try out Carmarthenshire Connect's Sony Ericsson mobile phone camera.Group Secretary Susan Thomas has kindly provided this 'short history of Ffrindiau Felinfoel':The group first got together

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