 The Rural Communities Development Scheme, RCDF, helps those in most deprived areas in rural Wales and those that have limited scope to change their circumstances. The Cooperation and Supply Chain Development Scheme brings together partners to tackle rural poverty, environmental issues and social exclusion. The return that the funding has provided us as a club, our members and the community is almost priceless. The funding has enabled us to employ a strong team with a really strong skill set behind that team to really support our members across the whole of Wales. We're just 40 years old and from a humble start of one team we now have 18 teams, our own land, fields and a clubhouse. The big difference that the new field and floodlight has made now is that it takes so much pressure off the first team field which was the only field with floodlights before and that's where all the teams are training. That makes the pitch in much better condition on a Saturday night. Tovey Vani is a funded project through Welsh Government under RDP so that's Rural Development Programme. We run a community garden, also a local food shop and we support a housing association and the residents there to get involved in gardening and feed growing. We got to a point where we weren't able to cope with demand in terms of training facilities and practice facilities, particularly for the juniors and for the girls. It's increased participation in sport and it allows us to develop not only the sport aspect but developing the leaders, the coaches and also refereeing in the community. Our under 15 girls won North Wales Cup this year and without the facilities here we wouldn't have been able to do it. The European Rural Development Fund has been essential to the development of this project. Without the external support and this European funding grant the project would not have been possible and we would not have these facilities. It's as simple as that. Tovey Vani has funded us to go and visit other community gardens, get inspiration, gather ideas, go and network, which has been hugely beneficial so that we're not just kind of thinking on our own. What I would say is persevere. If you've got the right idea, if you've got the support from the community behind you and you've got an interest there, absolutely go for it. Whilst Government are really quite supportive over what they fund, the diversity of what they fund just through our funding stream is quite fantastic. It really does enable things to happen on the ground which is brilliant and it really does bring some longevity to that support. Let's be clear, this funding is not just about rugby, it's about community, it's about rural poverty, it's about improving facilities and services throughout the rural area.