Pantyffynnon DVD Premier

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 group completed a video about the different perceptions between youth people and older residents.

Following the success of both these project, Pantyffynnon Communities First organised a DVD premier to launch both films and showcase them to the local community.

The evening was a great success with residents from all over the local community turning out to see what the youth had achieved, as well as a visit from the Children Commissioner for Wales - Keith Towler!

(Terry taking some photos)

After the screen, everyone had a chance to chat to the young people about the project and have some food and drink.

All the young people (and the featuring adults) in the film were then recognised with an award, including a trophy for their hard work and commitment to the project.

(A Comment from Keith Towler)

(Comments from a local residents)

(Comments from film star - Jonathan)

(Comment from Sian at Communities First)

Carmarthenshire Connect, Communities First Pantyffynnon and Mess up the Mess Theatre Company would like to that everyone involved in the project and all the hard work they put in - WELL DONE!

Pantyffynnon Youth Challange Valley Trip

As a reward for all the hard work the youth of Pantffynnon have put into their recent video project, Communities Firsts Pantyffynnon decided to take the group out for an evening of wet and muddy FUN on the Challenge Valley assault course in Swansea.

Claimed as the muddiest assault course in the WORLD! the group were surprised to see photos on the changing room walls of what they had jumped into.

The assault course has been there for over 20 years and has several different challenging sections for group to tackle, from rope bridges to muddy wet tunnels.

I think the photos and videos of the group below can sum up the kind of fun they had!

(Warming up before they begin)

(Ann & Dan were the first to get wet!)

(Still looking a bit to clean there lads!)

(A brave balancing act from Phil)

(climbing the 6ft wall!)

(a swing to keep dry, unlucky there lads)


(a very wet Sprout)

(It's not that high Nathan, honestly)

(Feet first through the tyres)

As you can tell, its was very muddy, wet and cold! but that didn't stop the fun. Plastered head to toe the group then made there way to the changing rooms for a hot shower.

Sleep well tonight hey lads??!!??

Pantyffynnon Youth Video Project Update

Pantyffynnon Youth Group have now finished filming in the community for their video project and spent two hours last night putting all their video ready to edit on the Mac Laptop at Communities First Pantyffynnon.

The young people will now start to create a structure and plan for the editing of their video with help from Carmarthenshire Connect over the next two months.

(the lads watching their video clips)

The video is the young people's way of showing the entire community what its really like for them, and how they feel about there community.

The project has been developed and delivered as a partnership project between Communities First Pantyffynnon, Mess Up The Mess Theatre Company, Carmarthenshire Connect and the Community Safety Partnership.

Pantyffynnon Youth Video Project

(Phil interviewing Nathan)

Over the past couple of weeks, Carmarthenshire Connect have been working with Communities Firsts Pantyffynnon and Mess Up the Mess Theatre Company on a youth video project on an estate in Ammanford.

The video and the project has stemmed from outreach projects delivered to the youth by Carmarthenshire Connect over the course of the year in the AVE Centre, Ammanford.
This projects is aimed to highlight that the youth of the estate are not to blame for all the problems caused and that they just want something to do and somewhere to go.

(Nathan filming on the estate)

The youth have now finished filming for this video and will be editing it over the next month. The finished film will then be shown to community on a premier night.

Keep an eye out for more information about this project on this website.

Pantyffynnon Youth Ringtone Workshop

Carmarthenshire Connect has been working with Pantyffynnon Youth to make their own ringtones using music production software at the AVE centre in Ammanford.

These workshops have demonstrated basic music production techniques to the group by using audio samples that are layered together using computers.

(Dan & Phill having a go at making their own ringtones)

Towards the end of the session the group uploaded their ringtones to their phones using bluetooth adapters and the Carmarthenshire Connect laptops.

Please click on the links below to listern to the groups new ringtones:

Lee's Ringtone

Phill's Ringtone

Nathans Ringtone

Jakes Ringtone

Pantyffynnon Youth Go Internet Safe!

Carmarthenshire Connect delivered a workshop on Internet safety to the youth of Panyffynnon yesterday over drinks, crisps and pizza at the new Pantyffynnon CF office in Ammanford.

The group spent an hour and a half discussing the issues that affect young people online including social networking websites, online grooming and predators and how to keep safe from such dangers.

The group also watched videos from CEOP (The Child Online Exploitation and Protection Centre) about the more serious problems of child abuse that can arise from Internet use. This included learning how to use the report abuse button now found on many websites for young people.

Ann Richards (Communities First development worker) said " I now hope the young people will take more care when using the web and websites such as 'Bebo' and 'MSN' ".

Carmarthenshire Connect will now look at providing open surgery sessions to the youth so they can learn more about general ICT.

Pantyffynnon Youth - Digital Story

Over the last couple of months Carmarthenshire Connect has been working with the youth of Pantyffynnon on a blogging and digital story workshops.

"The youth involved have thouroghly enjoyed learning about blogging and how to make their own digital stories."

(Phill adding the finishing touches to their digital story)

Please watch their digital story below:

We hope to see more digital stories for this group of youths in the future.

Pantyffynnon DJ Workshops

This year the team at Pantyffynnon C F will be organising Dj workshops for the youth of Ammanford.

We asked the youth of Pantyffynnon :


What sort of music would you mix?


Why does Djing interest you?


Siobhan says "i would mix dance and hardcore and im interested in djing because i loves music"

phil says" i would like to mix dance music cause it has good beats in it , djing interested me cause i like loud music"


sorcha says" i would like to mix dance and hardcore music and im intesested in djing because it sounds like a good laugh"

gavin says"i would like 2 mix whatever tickles my fancy and im interested in djing coz u can have slaming music and have a good laugh"

This was posted by the Youth of Ammanford.

Pantyffynon Youth Group

We were asked our favourite place in the world is and why

gavin jonse 19

Pantyffynnon Youth Group

We were asked what our favourite place in the world was and why?

I've chose cypris because it is sunny and you can go jetskiying.

My name is lee and i am 15 years old.

Pantyffynnon Youth Group

We were asked what our favourite place in the world is and why?


audio clip of siobhan gibbons age 19

i am siobhan gibbons and im 19.

Pantyffynnon Youth Group

We were asked what our favorite place in the world was and why?

Hi.I am codie i am 16 and i have chosen lanzarote because it is one of my dreams to go there and see my auntie who i have not seen in more than two years and i want to see her and i want to see my cousins.