In an update on the project members of the county council’s Welsh language steering committee about the plans to open the government
funded project.
Based at the old science block in St Asaph’s Ysgol Glan Clwyd it will provide a centre for the promotion of Welsh to residents of all ages.
The centre will provide support to English medium schools to improve their offering in Welsh as well as adult classes and crèche facilities for the area.
Ysgol Glan Clwyd could also use the facilities if there is an increase in capacity at the school.
It follows a successful funding application submitted by Denbighshire County Council to the Welsh Government, which described it as the best application it had received from anywhere in Wales for one of the new centres.
The council’s Welsh language champion and the cabinet member for education, Cllr Huw Hilditch-Roberts, said: “This is a huge statement and investment in the Welsh language in Denbighshire. And this shows a commitment over and beyond any authority because we have been told this was the best application in Wales.”
Cllr Hilditch-Rberts argued that the centre was a long term commitment to promoting the language in the county.
He said: “I don’t think we’ll see the benefits of this straight away. It won’t be a quick change overnight. It will be an investment in the roots of the language in Denbighshire that will flourish in years to come and hopefully that will send those generations in the right direction and we will become a more bilingual county as we progress.
“It’s not about making Welsh schools better, it’s about making English medium schools able to converse in our language.
“This is a win win for us in Denbighshire because it enhances what we’ve already got. And not only in terms of the schools but it adds early years and there will be an extra intake. It will enhance adults in their learning, it will be there for Welsh meetings in the area. There are all sorts of things that are possible thanks to this initiative.”
Based at the old science block in St Asaph’s Ysgol Glan Clwyd it will provide a centre for the promotion of Welsh to residents of all ages.
The centre will provide support to English medium schools to improve their offering in Welsh as well as adult classes and crèche facilities for the area.
Ysgol Glan Clwyd could also use the facilities if there is an increase in capacity at the school.
It follows a successful funding application submitted by Denbighshire County Council to the Welsh Government, which described it as the best application it had received from anywhere in Wales for one of the new centres.
The council’s Welsh language champion and the cabinet member for education, Cllr Huw Hilditch-Roberts, said: “This is a huge statement and investment in the Welsh language in Denbighshire. And this shows a commitment over and beyond any authority because we have been told this was the best application in Wales.”
Cllr Hilditch-Rberts argued that the centre was a long term commitment to promoting the language in the county.
He said: “I don’t think we’ll see the benefits of this straight away. It won’t be a quick change overnight. It will be an investment in the roots of the language in Denbighshire that will flourish in years to come and hopefully that will send those generations in the right direction and we will become a more bilingual county as we progress.
“It’s not about making Welsh schools better, it’s about making English medium schools able to converse in our language.
“This is a win win for us in Denbighshire because it enhances what we’ve already got. And not only in terms of the schools but it adds early years and there will be an extra intake. It will enhance adults in their learning, it will be there for Welsh meetings in the area. There are all sorts of things that are possible thanks to this initiative.”
