 Fe'n nhw i gari Williams, fi'n byw yn Blaen Cynon ffarm gwyntfey Llangandog, gwyntfey Pymfryd Bach, jyst o dan yma ni ddi. Wel, we'n byw'n i'n glast i'r ffost seven years now, ond we'n tir co-valent i'r cymdein dwi ffost, so we've got a history of being in environmental schemes. Glast i'r is an important part of our business, the income we get from Glast i'r is part of our sustains of business, so we've got about six projects running here at the moment from ffensing out 25 acres of existing woodland, regenerating that woodland, cutting off hedges and replanting them, make wildlife corridors from one end of the farm to the other, so over the last seven years we would have planted about 8,000 trees. We've also got some semi-improved grassland where we're looking to increase biodiversity and species of fauna to return that were here previously, and we combine that with more areas of land that we farm slightly more intensively for food production, so it's a combination of environmental work and food production working together and targeting certain areas of the farm differently to achieve both objectives. Well, y wahaniaeth arian wedi'i neid i'w mwy o bai o diversity ar y farm, so ni weld species o aderun, a ni sewn ni wedi weld amlynyddau, a hefyd, ni'n cael talu Glast i'r atyn mynedd, so am pethu fel's carbon storage, dŵr glan pethu fel ni, ni'n edrych ar un o bryd, ni'n edrych am dan o heather restoration ar y mynedd, mae gwaith na'r cario mynd ymlaen, mae pethau fel carbon storage, mae pitbox i cael, dan ni ar y mynedd, so mae'r edrych roi'r reini wedyn mae'r parka'r ennaethol, mae'n nhw'n edrych yn pwy species o aderun dan o, a besid an o, a so ni'n ddu'n ni'n trwya grwyth wedi'i gilyr reini. The investment of Glastir in the rural community sustains a lot of these hill farms, a lot of hill farms in the area would be in Glastir, a the income from Glastir is an important part of sustaining their business, you know, and it's important to remember that the Welsh language is based around these hill farms, virtually all the hill farmers in the area are first language Welsh, so you know the rural communities we know it and the Welsh languages we know it is sustained by these family farms. My name is Will John from ADAS and I'm here today at Square Farm to talk about the EIP project on small scale organic asparagus. The EIPs or the European Innovation Partnership projects is run by a mentor of business on behalf of Welsh Government. There have been more than 40 of these projects across Wales and the basic objective is to foster innovation in the rural community. This project was looking to looking at the practical and economic considerations of growing organic asparagus. There's actually not much information out there about the economics or the practical considerations. We know the crop sells well, we know customers in shops like the short supply chain, they're like the low food miles associated with it, but there is a large cost to establishment of organic asparagus and is also a long leading time, so for a lot of growers there are some big considerations to take into account and also farming organically will also present some challenges. It's been really a worthwhile project, my customers like it and the help I had from ADAS has been that boost I needed to have the confidence to try and to get round the problems that I found during the project. The main benefits of the projects have been assistance with funding of the establishment and perhaps just as importantly the ability for Rob to work with horticultural specialists. This has enabled him to gain confidence and has always had somebody on the end of a phone or somebody to come and visit to come and look at the crop and guide him on how the crop is progressing and what needs to be done, things like weed management etc. Asparagus has been a wonderful crop for our shop, seeing as it comes in what is known as the hungry gap and people look forward to asparagus especially but any any early green crop and yes the customers have really enjoyed fresh cut everyday asparagus. Long-term legacy for this project is very positive, we've demonstrated that the asparagus can be grown organically, it's been marketed successfully, within ADAS we've had lots of inquiries across Wales for our horticultural specialists to come out and talk to them about organic asparagus. My name is Michael Buic and I'm the managing director of JW Graves and Sons Limited which is a historic company founded by a man called John Whitehead Graves back in the 1840s. He came here to just outside Blynyfester-Neogyn Stedonia looking for the finest Welsh slate which he found. He made a fortune and one of the things he spent it on was the building we're standing in today which is called Plas Weyneth. It over the years had many lives including being an office but most recently three years ago we converted it into a 24 bedroom boutique hotel. Ten years ago when I first got involved in this business the visitor numbers to the tourist attraction had gone down from some hundreds of thousands to just under 50,000. Shortly after that adventure tourism came here in the shape of downhill bike tracks and then most recently zip world with outside zip wires underground zip wires and of course the underground trampolines. What that meant was that visitor numbers increased to over 200,000 and we looked around to see where those people could stay and it's very clear that there was a real shortage of quality service accommodation in this area. The funding itself A meant that the project would come off the ground because the confidence it generated was so important. Visit Wales were really clear that what they were looking for was a high quality product and in order to generate that we needed additional space for public areas and we needed additional investment in order to achieve a four star standard. This I think was the catalyst for something which is going to continue to grow which is going to continue to expand a high quality accommodation offer for people here which is associated with the amazing adventure attractions and heritage attractions that exist in this area. My name is Rob Clapham. I'm founder of Glantauer Outdoor Education Academy within Glantauer Riverside Park in Ponddedewa. We started off on this journey about 10-15 years ago when the park was completely overgrown. We spent that time in clearing the park back to the beautiful landscape that you currently see run new. We also run programmes for primary school, secondary school and local volunteers where we increase their well-being, what we feel is quite dramatically as well as increasing employability chances. We were the fortunate recipients of RDP funding. We had started running programmes for primary schools. We realised the value and the demand on these and what RDP funding did for us was to give us more than a standing start. We received enough funding to take on the train and to support a number of new practitioners to be able to expand our programmes in quite a large number of those in this area. The funding has helped the community by giving them opportunities to come and grow food with us and to have a place to relax. It helps people with their stress and anxiety, especially after in the current climate. I think it's just good to be in the outdoors really. It's a place to sit and be still and appreciate the birds and the flowers and so on around us as well as a place to make friends and develop confidence. The community garden is something we've been quite desperate to start because of community demand. The sort of benefits we get when we get volunteers that are quite literally not tasted anything fresh out of the ground in their entire lives. The one I'm thinking of has three small children and as a result of the project that individual is now growing fresh vegetables and fruit at home. So in terms of getting out there, RDP funding has really been instrumental and valuable. We simply couldn't achieve what we've achieved without that. I'm Richard Bundy, I'm Executive Director of Valley Steps. Valley Steps delivers a range of stress management interventions. It delivers mindfulness and other psychoeducational programmes across CUMTAF Morganog and the NRN Bevan health footprint. The premise behind the project was that we've served CUMTAF Morganog for quite a considerable length of time and many people will be aware that it has amongst the highest levels of multiple deprivation anywhere in Wales. Deprivation is a direct causal link between that and mental ill health and in addition to that those areas also had issues around access to services because they were more isolated and another determinant of poor mental well-being is isolation and loneliness which you know could also say characterises many of those areas. We're incredibly worried about the project because it has a huge impact on the problem of mental well-being and difficulty. The project is a project that we've been working on for a long time. A lot of help has been given to us from the government. Yna'n hytrwch datblygu o fewn i ni ymwcais. Ac ni'n sion eu edrychwch dros y cais a gweld fod y project yn un. Deilwg iawn o'i ala'r arian. Fe llio ni fel cyngor yn gallu ardei'n ni'r agled. Wel y bod amser yn helpu ymddangos i ddefnyddio amser, i ddim yn ymddangos y gallai ymddangos i ddefnyddio ardal â'r violaeth yngwet. Mae'n gwybod i'r bwysig, mae eich bod yn cyhoeddwn i'w meddwl. Mae'n gwybod i'w meddwl yn y awdwrs, yn ei gwrs, yn ei gwybod i ymddangos. Rydym wedi bod hi'n gwybod i'ch fuddo'r cyd-reibwyr i'r ddechrau. Mae'r dweudio'r hwn yn ei gwybod i'n gwybod i'r ddoi ar y dweudio. Mae'r dweudio'r ddyliau anodol a'r dweudio'n amser. was another aim was to help people greater appreciate what was around them, but also the fact that it would hopefully do them good if they engaged. My name is Henry Cook and I am the project officer for the Biodiversity Means Business Project. It is cited on the Wrexham Industrial Estate and it's part of a North Wales Wildlife Trust project. Originally we started the project in 2016 as a project to work with businesses on the industrial estate. There are over 365 businesses on the industrial estate and a lot of them have land around the edges of their units which we work to manage sustainably. Currently there's a lot of practices going on including mowing and development and things which threaten some of the special species that live here. There are things like barn owls here and other rare species which need our help and can thrive in this setting. The Wrexham Industrial Estate because of its unique history is actually more biodiverse and supports more species and habitats than the surrounding countryside. So what we are trying to do is look after the wildlife within the industrial estate but also provide wildlife corridors that extend out into the local countryside and connect wildlife across the entire area. Well since the start of the project we've seen the business land holdings and areas owned by or managed by local communities and farmers improve markedly for wildlife. So we've seen areas of land that were previously mowed umpteen times a year of very little biodiversity value, managed now as wildflower meadows benefiting bees and birds and butterflies and everything that benefits from these habitats. We've seen orchards planted, we've seen woodlands planted, we've seen hedgers renovated, it's been absolutely fantastic. So the main benefits of the funding from the sustainable management scheme has been to allow us to contact new businesses, bring businesses into the project, speak to them and let them know there's another way of doing things, one where we embrace wildlife and bring it to our doorsteps. The positive effects not just on wildlife but on people are significant. This includes mental health benefits and well-being benefits from people being able to get out, enjoy the industrial estate and get a breather during their working day. I'm Joe Quinney so I work with Great Little Trains of Wales and I'm the project manager on Wales on Rails which is RDP funded. Wales on Rails is a project to get people on to public transport as a tourist so you might want to go and visit somewhere so jump on a train, jump on a bus and then ultimately go and see Heritage Railway or other amazing attractions that we've got in Wales. And while you're doing that from public transport you'll see great scenery and beautiful places, you'll have an amazing journey and a great experience. Mae'r fydd sodiad yn fanteisio iawn i'r ardal herwydd bod yn helpu bisnesau lleol gan bod pobl yn cael ei ddynnu ddod i'r ardal. Dyma'n ddim yn fyddiol i ni yma'n treul ffyrdd festi nhw'n gyngorori ond hefyd i'r bisnesau ledledd Cymru. Mae'n dod arian fewn i'r ardal ond hefyd mae'n allwchlau o strain gan bod na pob o'r los dynnu'n gobeithio bod nhw'n defnyddio trefnidiaeth gyhoeddus. Felly mae'n allwchlau o strain ar y lle fydd parkio dynnu fyddir mantasio'n wefwysig o'r project. Ffyrr anyone that's interested online, the Wales on Rails map is great so you can have a look where you can go in Wales. But linked to that are loads of cards, they're a bit like top trump cards and they have a great picture and fantastic information. And there's thousands of these cards in the website which gives you great ideas, inspiration of fantastic places to go or using public transport throughout Wales. The main benefits have been collaborative working so we've managed to work with the community rail officers, transport for Wales, Strouse Cymru, loads of tourism partners. So coming for a project where there were 12 great little trains of Wales members, we've managed to include all these other people have become part of the project and it's grown bigger than the sum of its parts. The long-term legacy of the project is to get people to think differently about being a tourist. So we're hoping that active travel, bike riding, getting out and about will include loads of other projects and it will just become bigger and change and get better over time. Fy enw i gari Williams, fi'n byw yn blaen cyn yn ffam gwynfau Llangandog, gwynfau Pymtra Bach, jyst o dan yma nid di. Well, we've been in Glastir for seven years now and we were in Covalentir Cymruan before so we've got a history of being in environmental schemes. Glastir is an important part of our business. The income we get from Glastir is part of our sustains, our business. So we've got about six projects running here at the moment from ffensing out 25 acres of existing woodland, regenerating that woodland, cutting off hedges and replanting them to make wildlife corridors from one end of the farm to the other. So over the last seven years we would have planted about 8,000 trees. We've also got some semi-improved grassland where we're looking to increase biodiversity and species of fawn at a return that we were here previously and we combine that with more areas of land that we farm more, slightly more intensively for food production. So it's a combination of environmental work and food production working together and targeting certain areas of the farm differently to achieve both objectives. Well, y wahaniaeth arian wedi wneud yw mwy o bai y diversity ar y ffarm. So ni weld species o aderun a ni sewn ni wedi weld amlynyddau, a hefyd ni'n cael talu Glastir at y mynydd, so am pethau fel's carbon storage, dŵr glan pethau fel ni, ni'n edrych ar un o bryd, ni'n edrych am dan o hefydr restoration ar y mynydd, ma gwaith na acari o mynym lan, ma pethau fel carbon storage, ma pitbox i cael, dan ni ar y mynydd, so mae'n edrych roi'r reini wedyn mae'r park yn enlaethol, mae'n nhw'n edrych yn pwy species o aderun dan nhw, abesu dan nhw. So nid o'n nid i agwyth wedi gilydd reini. The investment of Glastir in the rural community sustains a lot of these hill farms. A lot of hill farms in the area would be in Glastir, and the income from Glastir is an important part of sustaining their business. It's important to remember that the Welsh language is based around these hill farms. Virtually all hill farmers in the area are first language Welsh. The rural community as we know it and the Welsh language as we know it is sustained by these family farms. My name is Will John from ADAS and I'm here today at Square Farm to talk about the EIP project on small scale organic asparagus. The EIPs or the European Innovation Partnership projects is run by a mentor of business on behalf of Welsh Government. There have been more than 40 of these projects across Wales and the basic objective is to foster innovation in the rural community. This project was looking at the practical and economic considerations of growing organic asparagus. There's actually not much information out there about the economics or the practical considerations. We know the crop sells well, we know customers in shops like the short supply chain, they're like the low food miles associated with it. But there is a large cost to establishment of organic asparagus and there's also a long lead in time. So for a lot of growers there are some big considerations to take into account and also farming organically will also present some challenges. It's been really worth the wild project. My customers like it and the help I had from ADAS has been that boost I needed to have the confidence to try and to get round the problems that I found during the project. The main benefits of the projects have been assistance with funding of the establishment and perhaps just as importantly the ability for Rob to work with horticultural specialists. This has enabled him to gain confidence and has always said somebody on the end of a phone or somebody to come and visit to come and look at the crop and guide him on how the crop is progressing and what needs to be done, things like weed management etc. Asparagus has been a wonderful crop for our shop seeing as it comes in what is known as the hungry gap and people look forward to asparagus especially but any early green crop and yes the customers have really enjoyed fresh cut everyday asparagus. Long term legacy for this project is very positive. We've demonstrated that the asparagus can be grown organically. It's been marketed successfully. Within ADAS we've had lots of inquiries across Wales for our horticultural specialists to come out and talk to them about organic asparagus. My name is Michael Buwick and I'm the managing director of JW Graves & Sons Limited which is a historic company founded by a man called John Whitehead Graves back in the 1840s. He came here to just outside Blynyfesterniog in Stedonia looking for the finest Welsh slate which he found. He made a fortune and one of the things he spent it on was the building we're standing in today which is called Plas Weyneth. It over the years had many lives including being an office but most recently three years ago we converted it into a 24 bedroom boutique hotel. Ten years ago when I first got involved in this business the visitor numbers of the tourist attraction had gone down from some hundreds of thousands to just under 50,000. Shortly after that adventure tourism came here in the shape of downhill bike tracks and then most recently zip world with outside zip wires, underground zip wires and of course the underground trampolines. What that meant was that visitor numbers increased to over 200,000 and we looked around to see where those people could stay and it's very clear that there was a real shortage of quality service accommodation in this area. O'r hanner ardal dwi'n ma'r gwesti yma'n grets dda'n cael lot o pobl lleol sydd o cwmni oedd dwi'n ddim am cyfarfodau a dwi'n maen nhw'n maen nhw'n pobl lleol dwi'n maen bwyd a diodded yn y nôs hefyd. Maen nhaf dipyn o bethau diodd allan hyn i gyd yn ei a un o'r prefanteisio i gallu cyflogi pob pobl trw'r fwydd yn mewn gwesti ag llef glampio mor braf as gynnynni. Gynny'n mi 25 o pob o'n gwythodd yn ymwun o gynnynni cyn i'r gwesti cael ail newid. O'r hanner ardal lleol ar cymuned mynd yn grets mae maen nhw'n maen nhw'n mwy bopol mae'n gwaith trw'r fwydd yn a mae'n hynna ni'n rhywpeth a ni'n rili yn bwyswysio rhan o busnes ond ac y gallu taelau'n ymryd yn cael trw'r fwydd yn a dim coss ym ddrosgwyia am ynddo i'r llef dderis. Mae'n ddysgu'n amser a'u gwnaeth i'n rhan o'r projekty oherwydd y ffordd oedd y gynnynni'n ddysgu'n math ac yn ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Mae'r llinoedd yma yn mynd i ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ymwyffau cyflogol. am gael gwybod, os ydych chi'n mynd i gyda'r blaedlai, i gael gwybod yr area oedd, a'r mynd i gael gwybod yr invest yn ymweld sy'n mynd i weld y 4 star' dystod. Ac ystod yn ymlaen i'r cataillist o'r gynhyrchu â'r cyfan, a'r cyfan o'r cyfan o'r cyfan o'r hwyl i'r gwaith ymlaen ymlaen, oedd ychydig cymaint o'r ymlaen i ymlaen i gael gwybod, ac oedd chi oedd ymlaen i'r cyfan o'r ymlaen. My name is Rob Clapham. I'm founder of Glantauer Outdoor Education Academy within Glantauer Riverside Park in Pondadau. We started off on this journey about 10, 15 years ago when the park was completely overgrown. We spent that time in clearing the park back to the beautiful landscape that you currently see around you. We also run programmes for primary schools, secondary schools and local volunteers where we increase their well-being, what we feel is quite dramatically as well as increasing employability chances. We were the fortunate recipients of RDP funding. We had started running programmes for primary schools. We realised the value and the demand on these and what RDP funding did for us was to give us more than a standing start. We received enough funding to take on the train and to support a number of new practitioners to be able to expand our programmes in quite a large number of those in this area. The funding has helped the community by giving them opportunities to come and grow food with us and to have a place to relax. It helps people with their stress and anxiety, especially after in the current climate. I think it's just good to be in the outdoors really. It's a place to sit and be still and appreciate the birds and the flowers and so on around us as well as a place to make friends and develop confidence. The community garden is something we've been quite desperate to start because of community demand. The sort of benefits we get when we get volunteers that are quite literally not tasted anything fresh out to the ground in their entire lives. The one I'm thinking of has three small children and as a result of the project that individual is now growing fresh vegetables and fruit at home. So in terms of getting out there, RDP funding has really been instrumental and valuable. We simply couldn't achieve what we've achieved without that. I'm Richard Bundy, I'm Executive Director of Valley Steps. Valley Steps delivers a range of stress management interventions. It delivers mindfulness and other psycho-educational programmes across Cwm Teff Morgannog and the NRN Bevan health footprint. The premise behind the project was that we've served Cwm Teff Morgannog for quite a considerable length of time. Many people will be aware that it has amongst the highest levels of multiple deprivation anywhere in Wales. Deprivation is a direct causal link between that and mental and ill health. In addition to that, those areas also had issues around access to services because they were more isolated. Another determinant of poor mental well-being is isolation and loneliness, which can also say characterises many of those areas. Wai'n credu bod yr ariam wedi bod'n bwysig yr project, achos mae llawer o bobl yn y randdalu yn efo problemau iechymeddol a defnydder. Mae project yma yn estyn allan ni i adaloedd sydd yn drathoddiadol hefyd cael lot o help bydd weigwyr llefydd fel meir di yn y rhondda. Rydwch chi'n ddwewn i ni yw cais, a nid o'n ni edrych dros y cais a gweld fod y project yn un. Rydyn ni ddeilwng iawn o gael yr arian, felly ni fel cyngor yn gallu'r ariani'r aglen. A lot o what we do is about helping people to help themselves, finding things that they can integrate easily within their everyday lives. So, mindfulness being a particular case in point is not all about having to go into deep meditation. You can be mindful in the outdoors, walking through woods, walking through a park. We wanted to develop an evidence base for that because those interventions could clearly benefit people who, on their doorstep, had a wealth of natural assets. So that was another aim, was to help people greater appreciate what was around them but also the fact that it would hopefully do them good if they engaged. My name is Henry Cook and I am the project officer for the Biodiversity Means Business Project. It is cited on the Wrexham Industrial Estate and it's part of a North Wales Wildlife Trust project. Originally we started the project in 2016 as a project to work with businesses on the industrial estate. There are over 365 businesses on the industrial estate and a lot of them have land around the edges of their units which we work to manage sustainably. Currently there's a lot of practices going on including mowing and development and things which threaten some of the special species that live here. There are things like barn owls here and other rare species which need our help and can thrive in this setting. The Wrexham Industrial Estate because of its unique history is actually more biodiverse and supports more species and habitats than the surrounding countryside. So what we are trying to do is look after the wildlife within the industrial estate but also provide wildlife corridors that extend out into the local countryside and connect wildlife across the entire area. Well since the start of the project we've seen the business land holdings and areas owned by or managed by local communities and farmers improve markedly for wildlife. So we've seen areas of land that were previously mowed umpteen times a year of very little biodiversity value, managed now as wildflower meadows benefiting bees and birds and butterflies and everything that benefits from these habitats. We've seen orchards planted, we've seen woodlands planted, we've seen hedgers renovated, it's been absolutely fantastic. So the main benefits of the funding from the sustainable management scheme has been to allow us to contact new businesses, bring businesses into the project, speak to them and let them know there's another way of doing things, one where we embrace wildlife and bring it to our doorsteps. The positive effects not just on wildlife but on people are significant. This includes mental health benefits and well-being benefits from people being able to get out, enjoy the industrial estate and get a breather during their working day. I'm Jo Quinney so I work with Great Licker Trains of Wales and I'm the project manager on Wales on Rails which is RDP funded. Wales on Rails is a project to get people onto public transport as a tourist so you might want to go and visit somewhere so jump on a train, jump on a bus and then ultimately go and see a heritage railway or other amazing attractions that we've got in Wales. And while you're doing that, from public transport you'll see great scenery and beautiful places, you'll have an amazing journey and a great experience. For anyone that's interested online, the Wales on Rails map is great so you can have a look where you can go in Wales but linked to that are loads of cards. They're a bit like top trump cards and they have a great picture and fantastic information and there's thousands of these cards in the website which gives you great ideas and inspiration of fantastic places to go all using public transport throughout Wales. The main benefits have been collaborative working so we've managed to work with the community rail officers, transport for Wales, Straus, Cymru, loads of tourism partners. So coming from a project where there were 12 great little trains of Wales members, we've managed to include all these other people have become part of the project and it's grown bigger than the sum of its parts. The long term legacy of the project is to get people to think differently about being a tourist so we're hoping that active travel, bike riding, getting out and about will include loads of other projects and it will just become bigger and change and get better over time.