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Our Community Networks Programme is a package of multi-year funding to support five networks of local community organisations working across Wales.
It is a chance for trusted local organisations to facilitate a network in their locality, providing learning, networking and influencing opportunities for the network members.
With almost 100 member groups across the five community networks, the programme provides significant opportunities to create connections within and between communities to share learning and experience.
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Anglesey
Medrwn Môn has been facilitating a Place Shaping Programme since 2013 and has developed 8 Alliances across Anglesey. The Place Shaping Programme has gathered interest in relation to its work towards building resourceful communities, increasing community wellbeing and developing informed and active communities who are able to identify and use assets to develop creative ways to address common priorities. They will use the funding to continue to develop the network of Alliances across Anglesey.
Wrexham
Caia Park Partnership is Wrexham’s largest place-based community organisation, and will set up a new network in Wrexham to facilitate the consolidation and growth of place-based work across Wrexham. The network will act as a space for moral and practical support for fellow practitioners and leaders, allowing staff, trustees and volunteers to share their positive and negative experiences of using place-based approaches; and serve as the focus for the co-design of activities and services to mitigate current adversities and capitalise on the respective positive impacts on various communities.
Upper Afan Valley
Neath Port Talbot CVS will develop and facilitate a new Network in the communities of the Upper Afan Valley in Neath Port Talbot. The network will bring together representatives from local community organisations and encourage the sharing of skills, knowledge and experience with the potential to develop joint work on common local priorities. Residents of the Upper Afan Valley communities have come together previously to take responsibility for managing and developing a variety of local assets; from a community garden, a community hub which offers a food bank, social supermarket and community café in a local library and even a community manged swimming pool. The network will build on these existing connections to provide further opportunities to collaborate.
Cardiff
C3SC and ACE will support an emerging Cardiff Community Anchor Organisation network. Together, they have begun building a network of community organisations across Cardiff to explore a joint identity as Community Anchor Organisations, sharing strengths, challenges, and aspirations for a collaborative approach. The emerging network wishes to create an asset/ resource map for Community Anchor Organisations across Cardiff as well as collaborate on events, share knowledge, expertise and volunteer placements.
Rhwyd
IAITH Cyf. and Cymunedoli Cyf. Are working together to establish a new network called Rhwyd.
Together, they specialise in inspiring and implementing community development and language planning. Rhwyd aims to embed a holistic community approach to community regeneration and language regeneration among community enterprises that wish to take ownership of the challenge of implementing the Welsh language as an integral part of Welsh neighbourhoods where Welsh is not necessarily an everyday language. The funding will be used to realise the economic and social potential of operating inclusively through the medium of Welsh and bilingually.