Community Well-being & Resilience in Pembrokeshire

A project to explore how town and community councils can build resilience through engaging their communities in developing local well-being assessments, plans and project activities has been funded by Arwain Sir Benfro.

Arwain Sir Benfro – the Local Action Group (LAG) for Pembrokeshire, administered by PLANED has provided funding of £98,467.60 to PLANED for a project to improve community and individual well-being and the resilience of communities, by developing effective community plans, networks and projects that make best use of local assets.

This is funded through the LEADER programme, which is part of the Welsh Government Rural Communities – Rural Development Programme 2014 – 2020, Funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the Welsh Government.

The project proposal is a two-year pilot which will recruit two project officers to explore how town and community councils can build community resilience through engaging their communities in developing local well-being assessments, plans and project activities. These will feed into and inform the county-wide Well-being Assessment and Plan undertaken by the Public Services Board (PSB), as required by the Well-being of Future Generations Act (WFGA).

The project aims to improve community and individual well-being and the resilience of communities, by developing effective community plans, networks and projects that make best use of local assets. The project will equip town and community councils and community members with the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to care-take the well-being of their communities, including the most vulnerable people living among them.

Arwain Sir Benfro is currently supporting project ideas from local community groups, organisations and businesses. As the Local Action Group for Pembrokeshire, we bring together a mix of local community representatives, business, third sector, local authority partners.

LEADER is supporting all kinds of activity: mentoring, training, feasibility studies or pilot projects that test an innovative new idea. It can also be used for projects that improve local skills, make better use of a local resource or realise the economic potential of part of the locality leading to a ‘new’ outcome or product.