Memorial hall funding is welcomed
Villagers have welcomed news that their community hall has been given much needed funding to help it weather the Covid lockdown.
Llansilin Memorial Hall has been given a grant of £6000 towards its its Covid recovery from the National Lottery Community Fund of Wales.
The news was greeted with relief by resident, Mike Jones.
Mr Jones, 63, said the hall meant a great deal to him as it did to to everyone in Llansilin.
"My father's mother - Mrs Gwallear - was caretaker at the hall between 1924 and 1948," he said.
"Then my father became involved and he became chairman of the hall committee."
He said the hall was an important centre for Llansilin and the surrounding area.
The memorial hall lost all its income from the hire of the premises and loss of normal fund raising activities when the pandemic restrictions were brought in in March 2020.
Now the committee members hope that the recovery project will secure the financial viability of the building into a 2021 recovery period.
They hope that once the community has had their vaccines, events can start taking place once again at the memorial hall.
The lottery community fund says it is prioritising funding projects and organisations supporting communities through the Covid-19 pandemic.
The community fund is one of the organisations that distributes money to good causes on behalf of the National Lottery. It is responsible for giving out 40 per cent of the money raised by the National Lottery for good causes and awards £100,000 a day in Wales alone.
