Aberystwyth Community Ambassadors, a sub-group of Penparcau Youth Club, led by Ceredigion Youth Service, has secured a grant of £700 through CAVO Ceredigion’s Youth Led Grant Scheme, to create an art sculpture for their local community in Penparcau.

The aim of the project was to work with a professional artist to create an eye-catching sculpture made of recycled materials.

The group decided to create a chair in the shape of the Welsh dragon, which will sit in Penparcau park.

Ceredigion Youth Service’s young volunteers who sit on CAVO’s Youth Led Grant Panel also visited the project in action to learn more about how the funding had been spent.

The group created the sculpture chair with social enterprise organisation Splat Cymru.

Splat Cymru is a Carmarthen-based organisation which supports children and young people through art and technology.

Brandon Jones, a member of Aberystwyth Community Ambassadors, said: “Aberystwyth Community Ambassadors is made up of young people from Penparcau Youth Club who aim to develop community engagement projects and fundraisers in and around Penparcau and Aberystwyth.

“We wrote a bid for CAVO’s Youth Led Grant Scheme and we were successful. We then worked with James and Zoe from Splat Cymru to design and create the sculpture.”

“We want to place the chair in Penparcau park so it can be enjoyed by other children and young people,” he added.

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