Two community projects helping people get back into work and and access training have each been given a £10,000 council grant.
Hafod Deg Day Centre, in Rhymney, and the White Rose Centre in New Tredegar will each receive £10,000 from Caerphilly County Borough Council.
The money will part-finance the refurbishment of Hafod Deg.
The White Rose Centre will use its grant to support a six month extension to an employment support programme for youngsters in the Upper Rhymney Valley.
Cllr Ken James, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Planning and Sustainable Development, said: “The council is committed to supporting tenants and community projects, and I have no doubt that this funding will be of huge benefit to each respective project and their ability to carry out their work within the community.”
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This is nothing but a PR stunt!
The projects are great, don't get me wrong, but £10,000 is not enough to make a difference. You need more that 5x that amount. Refurbishments and extensions cost lots and lots these days.
The Beeches, the old original Miners Hospital building, were given £50,000 grant by Caerphilly Borough Council, simply to spend on a `feasability study` into, how to attract more grant aid, what`s all that about???? anyone know?????
The Beeches is a fine and commendable project to protect what is left of the Valleys Miners Heritage, but, when other equally commendable community projects are being denied access to Council and Welsh Assembly funds there is something wrong somewhere,could it be that there is a questionable political influence on making civic money available, only available, to `sweetheart projects` whilst sidestepping projects where there is little or no political gain?.
Trefor. None of the other communities like oakdale were given their hospital back to benefit the community and miners who paid for it.
Jan; The Miners Community Project have not been given the building, it has been leased to them by the owners of it, this article relates to the level of public money awarded to such projects, and my comments relate to the fact that in some cases the disproportionate levels of money which is then not available to other credible community projects, and, because of one local project getting hundreds of thousands of pounds, in one hit, whilst others get nothing.