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North Wales Chronicle
30-05-2025
- Business
- North Wales Chronicle
Anglesey communities urged to apply for £5k project support
Following the success of Balchder Bro led by Menter Môn last year, the scheme is back, with the aim of giving people the confidence to put forward ideas that celebrate what makes their area unique. Funded by the UK Government's Shared Prosperity Fund, the emphasis will be on celebrating the Welsh language and the island's identity through events and projects that promote local pride. With just over a week until the closing date, Catrin Jones, language and community manager at Menter Môn, has a clear message: "This is a great opportunity for communities and groups to take advantage of support to realise ideas that can bring different groups together. "With the deadline on the 8th of June, I would urge people to get in touch with us to apply. "We can provide support for events or to create something that celebrates communities across the island. "We hope to stimulate discussions about what makes people proud of their community and enable them to bring ideas to life. "Menter Môn has considerable track record of working at a community level, and our aim is to use this experience to help deliver worthwhile projects." One of the schemes that received support last year was Gŵyl Gogogoch, Llanfairpwll. Bethan Môn, one of the organisers, said: "For the first time in a long while, we had a community event in the village which was an opportunity for us to bring everyone together, celebrate our Welsh identity and raise money for a community project. "Without the support this would not have been possible." To apply for support an application form to declare an interest is available by contacting Sioned McGuigan at Metner Môn on sionedmc@ Sioned can help communities move the process forward.
North Wales Chronicle
10-05-2025
- Business
- North Wales Chronicle
Morlais scheme highlights expansion at national conference
Ambition North Wales welcomed the recognition given to its Cydnerth project at the Marine Energy Wales conference. The project is an investment in the Morlais tidal energy scheme, which is run by social enterprise Menter Môn. It forms part of the North Wales Growth Deal and aims to support the expansion of Morlais, which is located off the northwest coast of Ynys Cybi (Holy Island), Anglesey. (Image: Supplied) The project will deliver benefits such as driving economic growth, creating high-quality jobs, and ensuring North Wales is a key player in the future of tidal energy and the generation of clean electricity. The First Minister, Eluned Morgan, said: "I'm pleased to announce that Ambition North Wales and Menter Môn Morlais have agreed funding terms in principle for the Cydnerth project. "This £8.9 million investment through the North Wales Growth Deal, which is funded by the Welsh and UK Governments, will futureproof Morlais. "The North Wales Growth Deal investment will now enable the scheme's 18 megawatts grid capacity to increase over time to 240 megawatts." The Secretary of State for Wales, Jo Stevens, also backed the project saying: "The UK Government is supportive of the Morlais project, which promises to harness tidal energy and generate high-quality jobs in our coastal communities. "As part of our clean energy mission, we have increased the tidal stream ringfenced budget by 50 per cent which will maximise the opportunities for tidal energy in North Wales and drive economic growth." (Image: Supplied) Councillor Mark Pritchard, chair of Ambition North Wales and leader of Wrexham County Borough Council, said: "The significance of Cydnerth can't be understated. "As the largest consented tidal scheme in Europe, the positive impact and benefits it will bring are substantial, and it will cement our region's place as a leader in tidal energy." Councillor Gary Pritchard, lead member for Ambition North Wales' Low Carbon Energy Programme and leader of Isle of Anglesey County Council, said: "Cydnerth is very positive news for the marine energy sector in Wales and reinforces our region's commitment to a sustainable future – creating the right kind of jobs alongside environmental benefits." Dafydd Gruffydd, managing director of Menter Môn, said: "We are grateful to Ambition North Wales for their investment and continued support through the Cydnerth project. "Through this support from the North Wales Growth Deal we can now take the next step in expanding the Morlais tidal energy scheme, bringing benefits to our communities, creating local jobs, local supply chain opportunities and contributing to the region's sustainable growth."
BBC News
21-04-2025
- General
- BBC News
Egg clapping: Bringing back a lost Welsh tradition on Anglesey
Over the Easter weekend, children around the world took part in egg hunts to celebrate one of the most important festivals in the Christian in one corner of Wales some partook in a slight variation of this popular tradition – egg activity was practiced on Anglesey in the 19th and 20th Centuries before undergoing a demise from about the 1960s as rural traditions began to a local organisation is leading efforts to revive the practice on the island as part of wider efforts to celebrate and protect local heritage. The exact origins of clapio wyau, or egg clapping, are unclear, but it appears to have originated some time in the 19th Century mainly in rural communities on would visit neighbours with their wooden claps, recite a rhyme and ask for eggs – chicken eggs in those days – that they would take home to display on their rhyme had some variations, but according to one telling by Museum Wales went:Clap, clap, os gwelwch chi'n dda ga'i wŷ (Clap, clap, please may I have an egg)Geneth fychan (neu fachgen bychan) ar y plwy' (Young girl (or young boy) on the parish)The children would then be asked by the occupier "And who do you belong to?" before they were given an egg to add to their collection. Speaking to the BBC in 1965, Nelli Jones, from Cemaes Bay on Anglesey, said she went egg clapping every year between the ages of two and was a tradition her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother took part Jones said she did not know how the tradition started but the children in the village "couldn't sleep" the night before because of at about 06:00 BST, they would take their basket of straw for their eggs, their clapper and a spare piece of string in case it broke, and go clapping all day, returning in the evening."If you had a good day you could clap 150 eggs," Ms Jones said, adding the family was often "on an egg diet for weeks" eggs would also be brought into school the next day and sent to a hospital in Jones also showed the presenter her clapper – a wooden implement built by her father – which had written on it the years she had taken part. It showed the last time she had been was in 1939, 26 years Jones lamented the demise of the practice, saying her two older children, including her son aged 21, had never been egg clapping."I think it's a great shame to see old customs die," she said. Many decades later there are now efforts to keep the tradition 2012, Menter Môn, an organisation promoting Welsh customs on Anglesey, has been holding annual egg clapping events during the Easter Evans, from Menter Môn, said the event was an important way for children to connect with Welsh heritage and activities, as well as the events today see children given their own egg clappers that they colour in, before going around the local area reciting the traditional rhyme in Welsh and asking for eggs – these days in the form of Evans described the event as "fun" and "inter-generational", and said her father, who is in his late 80s, remembered doing it."We've found the grandparents really enjoy it – often they remember doing it themselves and there's real nostalgia for them. And for the children it's a bit of adventure, a bit different to the traditional Easter egg hunt," she said."It's nice, and gives the children a good look into how things were done in the past," she said.
