Regulars are appealing for help to raise the £8,000 needed to buy a 200-year-old Llyn village pub.

Tafarn y Plu - The Feathers Inn - in Llanystumdwy near Criccieth (pictured) went on sale in 2015 when there were fears it would shut and be turned into a home.

The pub, popular with locals and holidaymakers, is situated opposite the boyhood home of former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and is packed full of history.

Locals set up community benefit group Menter y Plu last year to save the Grade II listed pub - the last in the village. They wanted to buy Tafarn y Plu as a community venture and invited everyone to invest.

They started fundraising through a shares scheme to meet the £195,000 asking price, with a total sum of £200,000 needed to also cover extra costs such as solicitor’s and other fees.

So far they have raised £72,000 by selling shares at £100 each, but now need to find another £8,000 before securing £120,000 match-funding from the Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) to buy the building.

More money is needed on top of that to pay for improvements.

Menter y Plu is now asking villagers to donate any sum they can afford - be it £2 or £5 or more - to buy the pub so that it can reopen on a daily basis for drinks, meals, teas and Sunday lunches.

A crowdfunding campaign to invite more locals to invest in the community venture will be launched at an open evening at the pub at 6pm today (Thursday), supported by Arloesi Gwynedd Wledig.

Menter y Plu member Siôn Aled said: “Our offer has been accepted by the previous owners Ian and Cath Parry.

“Once we succeed in raising enough money, we aim to have the pub to reopen daily rather than just between 6pm and 10pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturday nights as at present.

“Our vision as a group initially was to save the pub and then to ensure it can stay open for the next quarter of a century. It would have been a huge loss to the village and wider community if the pub would have closed.”

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