People in Genau’r Glyn, Llandre and Dol-y-bont have raised £5,000 to support the Ceredigion 2020 National Eisteddfod in a couple of months, one of the first communities in the county to reach this goal.

The National Eisteddfod will be staged in August 2020 in fields on the outskirts of Tregaron.

The people of Ceredigion are expected to raise £330,000 to create a local county fund in order to stage the 2020 National Eisteddfod and the total has been split in smaller amounts, based on population and location, to be raised by all communities in the county.

The fundraising in Llandre and Dol-y-bont was organised by the local community venture Banc Bro.

The chairman of the organisation Wynne Melville Jones, who lives in Llandre, said he was delighted with the response.

“We are a very small community, and very limited in events we can organise, with no shop, pub, school, village hall and very few businesses and so we focused on the advantages of gift aid contributions and the selling of Patagonian wine,” he said.

“Our geographical location in north Ceredigion, a 50-mile round trip to any who wants to visit the eisteddfod made no difference whatsoever to our fundraising.

“We clearly had the advantage of our Banc Bro being in place with both the structure and experience of fundraising and the appeal was launched at a pre-Christmas social event held in the local schoolroom at the very end of November.

“We would like to thank all the local people who have helped us reach our goal.

“I now hope the accusation of the Cardis being tight-fisted has received a death blow. We feel very proud of our community.”

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