Cymdeithas yr Iaith has called on the owners of Tŷ'r Cymry in Caerdyddnot to sell the house, following a decision by current members of the trustees' committee to close the Welsh language center and sell the building. The house was donated by Mr Lewis Williams "to the Welsh of Cardiff" in 1936, and has been a major center of the language's history in the capital for over eighty years. Tenants of the building have moved out after being ordered to do so - which includes Cymdeithas yr Iaith, UCAC, Plaid Cymru and Tŷ'r Cymry cylch meithrin, the first cylch meithrin to be established in Cardiff.
Bethan Ruth, the national chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith, said: “The revival of the language in Cardiff has an important history for Tŷ'r Cymry, and there is no reason for that to end. We understand that maintaining a building like this is a pressure on a small crew that hasn't changed for a long time. But selling the building and closing the Welsh language center is not the answer - we are calling on the owners to pass the responsibility on to a new group that could re-establish the place as a modern Welsh language center on for 21st Century Cardiff.
