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Full membership is open to national, regional and depression years of 1934, mainly to umbrella voluntary organisations and any voluntary
support the work of the new men's organisation not represented at these levels. Each year
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Registered Charity No. 218093 SIXTY YEARS OF SUCCESS
Chair's foreword Director's 3b report €■ ■ J.
That was the year that This year marks the end Stilt *' was, with the three Cs of of one era and the start celebration, change and of another. The roles challenge. that Welsh Office, local and health authorities,
and other quangos have Celebration, that WCVA had safely played over the last ten years are being reached its 60th, and that its place in Welsh life is widely rearranged. acknowledged. The extension of our Caerphilly
The shape of the new order is now established, but it will headquarters and development of broader services on all
be some fronts are both evidence of increased confidence. years before the full impact on voluntary
organisations will be clear. Change came to the pattern of services in the community;
it affected us all and will increase. WCVA has tried to be Change of this magnitude causes anxiety and concern.
WCVA has been in the forefront in sensitive to the needs and aspirations of the sector, while ensuring that the
voluntary sector is on the new out a being youthful in adapting to them. agenda and in setting realistic vision of the future, in its Towards Shared Aims Challenge followed close behind: how to make sure that and Partners in Health initiatives. people in Wales recognise WCVA as part of its social and In another - development, a new era is just beginning with cultural life not an optional extra, but as a lively, relevant
the launch during the year of the National Lottery. This and effective promoter of people's understanding of, and will involvement in, this decade's complex environment. provide a valuable new source of funds for voluntary
organisations, but some will lose out as giving is diverted. My thanks to everyone - members, staff and friends who
Again WCVA has led the way in lobbying, informing, have joined in these endeavours, during this special
researching and assisting this new initiative to ensure that diamond jubilee year. voluntary organisations in Wales get the best possible deal
and in calling for compensation for those who lose most.
Another theme of the year has been recognising the role
of the volunteer and, again, WCVA has been active
Marjorie Dykins through its trustee training programmes and in developing
its own volunteering strategy in Wales, which will
implement the work of the government's Make A
Difference team.
During the year WCVA has strived to provide stable
strategic leadership and be the clear and respected voice
of voluntary groups and volunteering in Wales. Such a
voice is of crucial importance during a period of
uncertainty and change. It has strengthened this voice and
will continue to do so, by increasing contact with its
voluntary membership, extending its media coverage and
awareness, and enhancing its contact with decision makers
at all levels.
WCVA's work would not be possible without the support of
its growing voluntary membership, those who give their
time freely to its activities, and the many trusts and
government agencies who have contributed to its resources.
Thank you.
Graham Benfield WCVA ANNUAL REPORT 1994 - 1995
Looking back over 60 years of success a
WCVA in ... IFILe
II it lit s
The mass unemployment of the early thirties
set the scene for the launch of the
South Wales and Monmouthshire Council
of Social Service in February 1934 -
eventually to become the Wales Council for
Voluntary Action (WCVA).
The focus of its work was supporting the occupational centres and clubs for unemployed §1 men then springing up across the valleys, with the The impressive aim of "coordinating the work of all existing agencies contributing to the cultural and Fifties occupational, physical and recreational needs of By the eary fifties the Council's the adult and adolescent population of South Wales." activities were manifold and various, (Annual report 1934-5) including help for the elderly, and the This included work on health (a nurse cost £100 a year), young, adult education, community centres valleys' libraries, cooperative schemes to dig mountain coal and and village halls, even music and drama - all said even women's 'keep fit' classes. to "encourage and coordinate social effort in town and
country".
The emphasis on the countryside became stronger as the The Forties Council also tackled rural issues, working with Rural Community Councils on "the central "One of the problem of rural important effects of the war, Wales today - the problem of depopulation". (Annual with its multiplication of rules and report 1952) regulations has been the increase of
The decade also saw the decline of the Men's Clubs for the personal problems and
worries to which there is unemployed - but conversely Women's Clubs flourished, with
some 110 clubs "serviced by five full-time handicraft and two no ready answer..." home craft instructresses". (Annual report 1959-60) (Annual report 1940)
As well as other war work, a
government grant allowed the
Council to help set up seventy
Citizens Advice Bureaux in the
region to tackle some of the
problems referred to above.
Hard on the heels of peace came the
welfare state, but the concern that state
provision could "stifle voluntary action" proved unfounded, as the sector branched out in new directions. In 1946 the Council extended its remit to the whole of Wales and was increasingly involved in everything from refugees to craft work. SIXTY YEARS OF S U C C E S
S. Clam Women's The Sixties Workshop. In this decade of youth the
VL council was concentrating
more than ever on the
elderly, appointing its first
full-time officer to deal with the
administration of
the "Committee for
the Care of the Elderly in
Wales" which it had
overseen since 1947. This
body went on eventually to become Age Concern Wales.
Work with community centres, youth work,
drama, CAB and women continued. There
was a special Women's Department working
on such issues as women's rights, pensions, social security benefits and community care -
as well as one resolution on "the use of public money
with regard to 'Hippies' and 'Flower people'".
(Annual report 1968-9)
e THE NINETIES
WCVA now list Stwiiiiiis has 482 member groups and individuals from all over Wales and all walks of voluntary life. One in three The seventies brought change to the council's people in Wales volunteer and the sector structure. Various committees became manages an annual income of
around £600m. independent, emerging as the Wales Council The future for the Disabled, the National Council for presents fresh challenges such as the contract culture,
the Elderly in Wales (Age community care and the national lottery and on these and other
Concern issues Wales) and Council WCVA aims to champion the cause of the voluntary for Wales Youth Voluntary sector, lobbying on its behalf and helping create partnerships Services. with statutory and private sectors. The Council redefined its future role Still based in Caerphilly, the Council has opened Mid Wales and and for the first time appointed non- North Wales offices and is implementing a bilingual policy. Work specialist officers to "liaise generally with is pressing ahead on funding, training and promoting voluntary the voluntary movement in North and South groups, at Welsh, European and UK levels, to Wales". The shift forge a strong, also included launching a independent Welsh voluntary sector. series of adult literacy and training initiatives, both
for the young and the older unemployed.
THE EJGhTJES
In 1982 the name Wales Council for Voluntary Action replaced the Council of Social Service for Wales, reflecting the commitment to "promote, support and facilitate voluntary action and community development in Wales." New information, publications, media and community development initiatives were launched. WCVA also started administering the
Volunteering in Wales Fund.
Work to support Welsh charities grew to include training and funding advice as well as specific projects such as 'Take Care', aimed at improving □ the quality of life for the poor and elderly. The
Council also began research to monitor the effects Re-roofing Cwmparc Workingmen's Hall after a fire in 1987. of local and central government policy changes on the voluntary sector.
♦ Focus
1994/5 saw Wales Council for Voluntary
Action (WCVA) celebrating its own diamond jubilee and increasing its representational role in many areas most obviously on the national lottery.
The following report details the key areas of concern to Welsh charities and voluntary groups over the year as identified by WCVA members, and the action taken on them. Research commissioned by WCVA, with the National
It also offers a review of the regular Council of Voluntary Organisations in February revealed that
many people think charities are benefiting far more from the services we provided to the Welsh voluntary lottery than is the case and that some would buy lottery tickets sector. instead of giving to charity. In November WCVA held a briefing
day for the sector on all five funds. National Lottery WCVA's national development officer was seconded to the The second half of the financial year was dominated by the NLCB and WCVA organised five consultation events across National Lottery and its effect on charities' funding. Wales on behalf of the Board. These allowed the Board to
WCVA consult with charities on its draft performed a vital representational role - aiming to: guidelines for funding
voluntary groups. • Facilitate communication between the National Lottery
Charities Board (NLCB) and the In frequent media interviews WCVA stressed that V4p to 11/2p
would come to Welsh charities voluntary sector; per pound lottery ticket -
people to carry on supporting local groups. • provide information to groups WCVA has also made two bids to the Lottery's on all five 'good Millennium Fund for: funds;
• a multi-point video conference facility for Wales and • research the effect of the
a UK support for village halls - in Lottery on charitable giving conjunction with Acre and and sister organisations in
• explain to the public via Scotland and Northern
the media the real effect Ireland.
the Lottery on charities.
The Lottery draw hosted by Anthea Turner and Gordon Kennedy has proved irresistable viewing for many. WCVA used the media to
explain to the public the real effect of the Lottery
on charities. SIXTY YEARS OF SUCCESS
Local government support Central government The and reorganisation year began under the shadow of a ten per cent funding cut in the Welsh Office grant to WCVA and the Despite something of a 'calm before the storm' atmosphere in Volunteering in
advance of Wales Fund (see p8). But to reorganisation in 1996, WCVA pressed on following vigorous representations
the Welsh Office, both cuts were restored. energetically in two areas:
Meetings with Welsh Office and Westminster ministers and • Increasing support for and partnership with the voluntary officials were also held on a wide range of subjects from a sector and local government. volunteering strategy to European funding, the lottery and the
• Encouraging groups to get together in the new twenty-two transfer of social and community grants from the Welsh Office unitary authority areas and work with transition committees and quangos to local councils.
on the arrangements for future funding of voluntary groups, WCVA also published Have They Listened - a review of the and their part in delivery of services. As a result contact has government's implementation of its efficiency scrutiny which been established between virtually all transition committees found that some progress had been made in the administration and the voluntary sector. and efficiency of grant schemes.
WCVA also provided advice to transition committees on working with the sector and has started a 'tracking exercise' to follow groups' fortunes through the reorganisation process.
It also published several key publications:
Finding the Funding: Local Authority funding for voluntary organisations Wales 1992/3 survey - found local authority support had gone up to £21.7m but still lagged behind its
English equivalent.
Local Government Reorganisation and the Voluntary Sector - an
update and Working Together in Wales - a revised edition of the summary Towards Shared Aims - a blueprint for local authorities and voluntary sector working together which is supported by
WCVA, The Council of Welsh Districts, the Assembly of Welsh
Counties, The Welsh Office and the Local Government
Management Board. This will be sent to the new shadow authority members.
As a result one quarter of new authorities have, or have committed themselves to the Towards Shared Aims model and a further quarter are interested.
Volunteering The restoration of the Welsh Office cut in grant aid enabled
WCVA to appoint a full-time volunteering officer who has begun to develop a Wales strategy for volunteering to implement the work of the UK Make A Difference Initiative. Wales is
represented on the initiative by WCVA's Chair,
Marjorie Dykins.
The Underdogs, a voluntary group of more than forty young people from St Mellons, Cardiff, perform at community events and festivals. The group is supported by Community Music Wales and was WCVA ANNUAL RE
Europe
1994 was a year of important change in European funding
programmes and WCVA kept the sector informed of the rapidly changing scene. The programmes for industrial south Wales and rural Wales were approved after much delay and thanks to
WCVA's lobbying contained specific measures to fund community development. WCVA also gained representation as the sector's voice on the new streamlined committees in these regions.
Negotiations with our sister councils in Scotland and England led to the Objective 3 ESF programme for training unemployed people being fully devolved. Wide consultation preceded a new application process tailored to Welsh organisations and the targeting of need. Over £4m of bids were received and forty different organisations were recommended for funding.
A voluntary sector response was made to the European
Commission's consultation on social policy. The European team also underwent some personnel changes with the appointment of a new ESF Officer in Caerphilly and Administrator in
Welshpool. The team dealt with over 400 enquiries for information on funding, networks and lobbying during the year.
Welsh language Providing services in Welsh will become increasingly important as expectations rise through the Welsh Language Act, while organisations contracted to provide services for local councils may find it to a WCVA mandatory offer bilingual service. research revealed that for every £1 given in grants to
a To help voluntary groups in this area WCVA appointed a Welsh voluntary group by the Health Service in Wales, £7.50 is language development officer, funded by the Welsh Language gained in fundraising by the voluntary sector for the Health
Board. Service. He is setting up a project to work with twenty groups on producing Welsh language policies, and will also develop draft In conjunction with the Welsh Health Authorities, WCVA guidelines for the voluntary sector on Welsh language policies. published Partners in Health - a publication aimed at showing
how the Two consultation days were held with the sector and North and changes to the health service make it more important
than ever that South Wales panels will meet soon to look at good practice. health authorities and voluntary groups work in
partnership to provide health care. Partners in Health was The second annual Voluntary Action Pavilion at the National launched at a working conference and both the guide and Eisteddfod, this year in Clynneath, housed seventeen voluntary summary have been widely distributed in Wales and beyond, groups and promoted the sector's work in Wales. Organised by
and some health authorities have WCVA already begun to implement and Disability Wales the Pavilion was opened by Rhodri its recommendations. Morgan MP and hosted a series of events by groups such as the
Wl, Carers National Association and Children in Wales. Rhodri Morgan MP with WCVA staff in the Voluntary Action Pavilion.
WALES COUld V0|fl SIXTY YEARS OF SUCCESS
Trust funding Future of the sector Debate Following on from WCVA's Building Bridges event - when throughout the year has concentrated on the nature twenty-eight UK trusts met representatives of the Welsh and future of the charity and voluntary sectors and WCVA has voluntary sector in Cardiff a new group of UK-based charitable launched its own pragmatic approach to this. foundations met in London as the Welsh Interest Group of the A steering group of voluntary sector representatives has started
Association of Charitable Foundations to look at ways of to draft a manifesto on the future of the voluntary sector in increasing knowledge and contact with Welsh voluntary groups. Wales, asking what do groups in Wales have to say about
WCVA estimates only 1% of the money coming to Welsh groups themselves and what do they want from a future government. is from trusts, and now the 'Welsh Interest Group' of the Widespread consultation is planned.
Association of Charitable Foundations is looking at changing the The uncertainty about the shape and size of the sector is also balance. WCVA has also renewed efforts to set up a trust fund likely to be lessened following a successful bid by WCVA and its specifically for Welsh groups - a steering group has been set up sister organisations to carry out research in the sector for the to look into the issue. As a result some Charitable Foundations Central Statistical Office. are reviewing their policies and this may increase the level of support to charities in Wales. Services
Advice services Advice
WCVA launched a report Independent Advice Services in Wales, in WCVA's advice services again concentrated mainly on funding, a bid to increase strategic support and funding for this vital but including European funding and the National Lottery. More
neglected area of work. The report than three hundred general funding queries were dealt with,
was published in conjunction with and many more on European funding.
Citizens' Advice Bureaux, Shelter, WCVA's funding advice was backed up with the Cardiff Law Centre, detailed research on sources of voluntary
.h mc „n*h«>lon community advice agencies and sector funding as indicated below. crr,^orl county voluntary councils Wales' More than one hundred queries on throughout Wales. estimated legal issues were also Such services provide dealt with. 22,000
independent advice on issues WCVA also facilitated a network voluntary groups such as debt, benefits, or legal had a total income of of local authority licencing matters to more than half a around £600m in officers to advise on charity million people in Wales every fraud, and also 1992/3, according to figures Oweit^()u ° year, but often rely on tCGOC), * highlighted this issue in a new WCVA publication, insecure 45jt funding from short in the media. Funding Facts, launched at its AGM term, variable grants. Hp Solutions offered include a Funding the Future.
Oynirvi joint policy with central Of this some sixty per cent came from
and local government to voluntary donations - from individuals, legacies,
ensure a minimum level of companies and trusts, while forty per cent came
security funded services across Wales. from public sources, central and local
government, quangos, health authorities Social care and Europe. For the future the WCVA's report on Community Care - is it working? gained National Lottery and local widespread media coverage and was discussed with Directors government reorganisation of social services across Wales. Since then WCVA has continued will both deeply affect to support a network of groups involved in social care. It has traditional funding also provided training on development work in the field between national patterns. groups and county voluntary councils - plus completed a protocol on co-operation and joint working between these two groups of interests.
WCVA has also developed a pilot project with the Welsh
Office to recruit people from the wider community as 'lay assessors' to inspect local authority social services.
WCVA's policy officer was seconded to the Welsh Office to
review the Flexible Community Care grant scheme. ♦ WCVA ANNUAL RE P ORT 1994 - 1995
Training Information WCVA's WCVA provides a training and consultancy service plus a full monthly magazine Network Wales was relaunched with
a brand new events programme, as well as facilitating voluntary sector events design and contents style in January 1995. It is
for other organisations. designed in house and produced to a high standard. Network
aims to provide the latest news and views on the voluntary The training programme includes day courses across Wales and sector in Wales and both circulation and advertising have risen. short residential courses run by experienced trainers on subjects
The bilingual bi-monthly newsletter supplement was again such as European funding, staff development and charity law. produced to target for seven county voluntary councils, as were WCVA's national trustee training programme, aimed at reaching weekly issues of WCVA's news or 'current awareness' service plus Wales' thousands of trustees, was launched at the National updated information sheets. Eisteddfod and ran successfully throughout the autumn and Sixteen winter. publications were produced, fourteen bilingually, and a
WCVA housestyle was introduced. Publications were marketed, Funding has been agreed with Charity Projects and three distributed free or sold and exhibition material also produced. Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) for a North, Mid and
Thirty-five press releases were produced and media coverage West Wales training consortium to meet the needs of smaller,
rose again, with a particularly good coverage of National rural voluntary groups, and European match-funding is being Lottery subjects. sought.
WCVA's library and information service was maintained and Other major events run during the year included: WCVA's 1,167 diamond jubilee fashion show, lottery consultation, the Charities queries answered on all aspects of voluntary activity.
Aid Foundation Welsh link conference, free fundraising training Internal with the Templeton Institute, WCVA's AGM funding for the efficiency WCVA future and a conference facilitated on behalf of Welsh historic brought in new membership categories and charges as
well as monuments agency CADW. updating its constitution - membership continued to
increase. WCVA also co-ordinated the Training Support Network,
disseminated information on National Research was initiated on its communication with members and
Vocational Qualifications, and corporate image, and a review of information technology
represented Wales in discussions carried out and approved.
about an Industry Training A personnel handbook and a health and safety policy were also
drawn up and approved.
Volunteering in Wales Fund and the
Esmee Fairbairn
Charitable Trust
47 voluntary groups shared grants ranging from a
few hundred to nearly £20,000, from the
Volunteering in Wales Fund (VIWF). These grants
funded new opportunities for over 1,600 volunteers.
A Welsh Office decision to cut the scheme's
funding by 10% was subsequently
reversed and by the end of the year
£268,769 had been awarded to groups
across Wales.
WCVA also administers small grants
on behalf of the Esmee Fairbairn
Charitable Trust. 54 awards were
made to voluntary groups in
1994/95, totalling £27,397.
Delegates from an elderly service users' forum "breaking the ice" during a session facilitated by WCVA's training officer. Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
Diamond anniversary lunch
Stylish off-the-peg numbers for as little as £3.50 put the sparkle
into WCVA's diamond jubilee celebrations at Cardiff City Hall in June 1994.
The catwalk 'clothes show' was styled from the
* shops of nine charities operating in Wales.
And it was the highlight of a sixtieth
birthday party which also featured guest
speaker Roy Noble, a buffet lunch and
awards from the Volunteering in
Wales Fund.
The show was ably compered
by Radio Wales celebrity
Frank Hennessy.
The event coincided
with UK Volunteers'
Week and aimed to
highlight the work
of the thousands of
volunteers in Wales
who contribute to
so many aspects
of Welsh life. It also
marked sixty years of
WCVA's contribution to the
volunteering world, which has
changed dramatically in response
to changing times, starting with its Jubilee work with South Wales valleys reception men's clubs in the depression Hosted by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff years of the thirties. Councillor Ricky Ormonde and Lady
As well as providing great entertainment, Mayoress Valerie Swinburne, Cardiff's
Mansion House was the the show also stressed the size, depth and sumptuous setting for WCVA's diamond quality of the charity shop "industry" in jubilee reception in March 1995.
Wales which raises millions of pounds Mid Glamorgan County Council's chief executive every year. Huw Thomas, and Roger Jarman, Welsh Office
Under Secretary, paid tribute to staff and
committee members and acknowledged the
role and vitality of the voluntary sector in the
1990's.
♦ w V A N N U
Highlights of the Year
April Mike Palmer ♦ The Charity Commission publishes strict WCVA North Wales officer at guidelines on charity campaigning and the Neath National political activities. Eisteddfod.
♦ WCVA launches Advice Services in Wales in a bid for a July funding strategy for advice services. It also lobbies in ♦ Local Government (Wales) Act gets Royal Assent. Parliament for transitional funding for Welsh groups ♦ Voluntary sector deregulation task force publishes report to be included in the Local Government (Wales) Bill. aimed at making life easier for smaller charities. ♦ Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill falls at report stage in the ♦ Disabled Commons after numerous amendments tabled. people, including Welsh campaigners, lobby Parliament on civil rights. ♦ WCVA holds meetings with Welsh Office minister ♦ WCVA negotiates a devolution of Objective 3 ESF to Wales. Gwilym jones following a 10% funding cut affecting both 9% of the total GB voluntary sector allocation is secured. WCVA budget and the Volunteering in Wales Fund.
May August ♦ Seventeen voluntary groups take part in the Voluntary Action ♦ WCVA chair, Marjorie Dykins, joins the Make a Difference team Pavilion at the Neath National Eisteddfod, organised by reviewing volunteering in the UK. WCVA and Wales Council for the Disabled. ♦ The Big Issue magazine, sold by and for the homeless, hits the ♦ Twelve trustees streets of Cardiff. appointed to the National Lottery Charities
Board, three from Wales. WCVA warns.the money from the ♦ Oxfam Wales sends its first direct aid flight to Rwanda with Board may not reach Wales until early 1996. aid donated by the people of Wales. ♦ WCVA launches national trustee training programme. June ♦ WCVA launches its September ♦ WCVA launches 1994 'diamond figures at its AGM Funding the Future,
showing the Welsh voluntary sector had a turnover of nearly jubilee' celebrations £600m in 1992/3, more than half of it from individual giving. with a "charity shop
fashion show" at Changes to membership agreed.
Cardiff City Hall, ♦ The BBC announces plans for new 24 hour Helpline.
looking back on its ♦ Research from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) claims
sixty year history since Wales has the most people who give to charity. 1934. ♦ Consultation of a switch of DBRW funds to local government.
♦ WCVA is forced to October scrap plans to
♦ The Welsh Office announces it is promote 'UK restoring its 10% cut made
Volunteers Week' in to WCVA's budget and the Volunteering in Wales Fund. WCVA Jubilee fashion show.
advertises for a Volunteer Wales due to funding Development Officer.
cutbacks. ♦ Three Welsh groups win a total of £44,376 from the
Make A Difference scheme.
♦ CAF launches its ♦ Prince Philip joins the debate on "charity" claiming that Charity Card for tax effective giving.
absolute poverty no longer exists in the UK, "removing the ♦ WCVA launches 'lay assessors project' aimed at encouraging need for charity in its traditional sense". people to be independent assessors with Welsh Office teams
♦ A report from the Volunteer Centre UK claims "paid inspecting social services provision.
volunteering" is on the increase. ♦ Criminal Justice Act restricts right to free protests.
♦ Camelot is appointed to run the National Lottery. It promises
25-30% of takings to the five 'good causes'.
♦ November
♦ National Lottery fever hits the UK, WCVA campaigns for as
much lottery money as possible to reach Welsh groups, and
urges people to carry on giving direct to charity as well.
♦ WCVA holds National Lottery briefing event for voluntary
groups, with representatives of all five "good cause" funds, in
Llandrindod Wells.
December
♦ WCVA's Welsh Language Development Officer establishes
project to produce guidelines for the voluntary sector on
Welsh language schemes. Work begins on identifying 20 pilot
groups to act as 'test bed' for project.
♦ The winner of bids for a National Volunteer Helpline is to be Jubilee fashion show. decided by Home Secretary Michael Howard.
♦ The first Welsh only ESF Objective 3 application round
♦ 40 under way. organisations approved for ESF funding for over £2m
of funding.
♦ WCVA bids for money from Millennium Fund for UK village
halls, plus Welsh multi-point video link. January ♦ Government launches accounts regulations for consultation ♦ European funding programmes for rural (Part VI of the Charities Act) plus Charity Commission issues Wales and Industrial South Wales finally revised statement of recommended practice (SORP II). approved (one year late). ♦ Disabled people around the country - including the South ♦ UK volunteering helpline to be based
Glamorgan Coalition for Disabled People - demonstrate for in Scotland.
rights as two parallel disability bills go to Parliament. ♦ Welsh Office decides to cut the 1995/96 budget of
the Countryside Council for Wales by £3.3m - leading
to warnings this could lead to
reduced grants for environment
voluntary groups.
♦ Local action proliferates in the form of
anti-veal export.
February ♦ Protests organised by Compassion in
World Farming.
♦ NLCB launching its draft plans to
distribute funds to charities and
Wales kicks off its regional seminars
with voluntary groups.
March
♦ Regulations controlling
fundraising came into force under
Part II of Charities Act.
Professional fundraisers and
commercial participants.
♦ Carers (Recognition & Services) Bill to
give rights to carers, passes its second reading with
government support.
♦ Welsh Office deadline for comments on the proposed
scrapping of the Voluntary Youth Services, Village Halls and
Community Centres Programme. WCVA ANNUAL REPORT 1994 - 1995
Income and expenditure Accounts account for the year ended 31 March 1995 Balance sheet as at
31 March 1995
1995 1994 1995 1994
Fixed assets Income
Tangible assets Grants for general purposes
Freehold property 340,000 340,000
Motor vehicles 7,469 1 3,469 Welsh Office 364,728 378,532
Charities Aid Foundation 48,344 347,469 353,469 48,832
Current assets European Social Fund - Employment Division 7,000 9,345 Investments 120,652 120,652 Allen Lane Foundation 1,000 Debtors and prepayments 37,327 22,058 Carnegie Trust 2,500 Cash at bank 232,898 152,006 Culbenkian Foundation 5,000 Cash in hand 122 124 - (Lisbon) 390,999 294,840 428,060 437,221 Creditors
Amounts falling due Grants for specific purposes within one 242,361 165,937 year Welsh Office
- Welsh Net current assets 148,638 128,903 Language 21,972 4,750 Volunteers Week 4,786 Total assets less Mid Glamorgan TEC current liabilities 496,107 482,372 Training 3,323
25,295 9,536 Creditors
Amounts falling due Other income after more than one year 3,982 Expenditure recovered Provision for liabilities 75,000 65,000 and sundry income 131,217 108,252
421,107 413,390 Bank and investment income Reserves (gross) 22,197 21,331 Subscriptions and donations 6,087 5,432 Accumulated funds 198,605 190,888
Revaluation reserve 222,502 222,502 159,501 135,015
421,107 413,390 Volunteering in Wales Fund 226,501 221,000
Total operating income 839,357 802,772
Income - Where the money comes from
1994 - Subscriptions and donations 0.6% -Other general purpose grants 1.2% Subscriptions and donations 0.7% Other Specific purpose grants 1.2% general purpose grants 0.9%
_Bank and investment income 2.6% Bank and investment income 2.6%
Specific purpose grants 3.8% .Charities Aid Foundation 6% Charities Aid Foundation 6%
Expenditure recovered and sundries 13.5% Expenditure recovered and sundries 15.6%
.Volunteering in Wales Fund 27.5% Volunteering in Wales Fund 27%
Welsh Office Grant 47% Welsh Office Grant 43% S I X T Y YEARS OF SUCCESS
Income and expenditure Expenditure - Where the account for the year ended money goes 31 March 1995 Operating surplus Fixed assets ♦ ♦ ♦♦ 0.1% 0.9% 1.2% 0.3%
1995 1994 Administrative costs Accommodation Operating income, brought forward 839,357 802,772 Expenditure ♦ ♦ Administrative expenses 5.4% 4.3%
Salaries and staff costs 366,357 343,839
Staff training 7,792 4,947 Staff costs
Travelling and subsistence 30,498 24,765
Equipment leasing and 18.2% 24.2% maintenance 9,493 14,375
Insurances 1,327 998 Volunteering in Wales Fund Printing, stationery and office supplies 20,159 19,333
Postage and telephone 29,598 29,779
Pubications and advertising 25,499 19,372
Conferences, meetings
and training courses 34,248 34,900
Miscellaneous expenses 2,360 1,384
Auditors remuneration 3,600 3,500
Computer costs 13,106 4,848
Consultants fees 16,971 15,594 27.5% 27.2% 46.6% 43.9% Motor car, depreciation and loss 6,000 6,500
Translation costs - 4,318 Accounting policies Bank charges 1,417 729 • The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention as modified by the revaluation of freehold property. 568,425 529,191 • Bank deposit interest is included as income on an accruing basis.
Donations are included when they are received. Grants are included in the Accommodation costs year to which they relate.
• No account has been taken of stocks of publications or stationery. Rent and rates 13,709 13,611 • Depreciation is charged on the motor car at 33% on cost. Insurances 1,327 997 • Rental costs arising under operating leases are charged to the Lighting and heating 7,268 10,134 Profit and Loss Account in the year to which they relate. Cleaning and maintenance 3,364 3,008 A complete set of the reports and accounts can be obtained from: Provision for building Mr D Morris, Company Secretary, maintenance 10,000 15,000 WCVA, Llys Ifor, Crescent Road, 35,668 42,750 Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan CF8 1XL Expenditure on tel 01222 869224. fixed assets To the members of Wales Council for Voluntary Action Office furniture and In the opinion of the auditors, Messrs. Zeidman & Davis, the
equipment 2,946 8,888 summarised accounts given in this document are consistent with Volunteering in Wales the full annual accounts. Fund 226,501 221,000 The auditors' report on the full accounts was unqualified.
Total expenditure 833,540 801,829
Operating surplus 5,817 943
- Surplus on sale of assets 1,900 Zeidman & Davis
7,717 943 Certified Accountants
Registered Auditors Lawrence House
Caerphilly Mid Glamorgan WCVA ANNUAL REPORT 1994 - 1995
COMMITTEE STRUCTURE
Executive Committee Chair: Marjorie Dykirts 1 T— 1 I European Committee ESF Committee Volunteering in Wales Chair: Sir Donald Walters Chair: Hywel Evans Fund Committee until Feb 1995 Chair: .Alistair Wood | Finance & General Purposes Policy Advisory Committee NEWPOL Committee (South & East) Policy Advisory Committee (North & West) Chair: W P Kitson Chair: Prof Maurice Broady Chair: Alistair Wood
Executive Committee The Council's staff
March 1994/95 President Director Graham Benfield The Earl of Lisburne Director's Personal Assistant Jan Bish Hon Treasurer
Mr W P Kitson Company Secretary/Finance Manager Douglas Morris
Finance Assistant Vida Davies Hon Solicitor
Information & Research Manager Lynda Garfield Messrs Eversheds Phillips & Buck Information Assistant Eilir Daniel Chair
Press & Publications Officer Mrs Marjorie Dykins Penny Taylor Michael Palmer Vice Chair Training & Conference Officer Ruth Marks
Ms Jane Hutt National Development Officer Peter Bryant
Policy Officer Lindsey Williams Dr N Ahmad
Mrs Pat Bowen Policy Officer (secondee from January - March 1995) Simon Boex Professor Maurice Broady Volunteering Development Officer Lt Col David Cox, CVO, MBE (from January 1995) Sue Pickavance Mrs Ceinwen Davies Funding Advice Officer Margaret Bond Ms Annmarie Dixon-Barrow Sue Thomas Funds Administrator Stan Salter Mr John Ashton Edwards, OBE European Officer Dewi Llwyd Evans Mr Stuart Etherington European Social Fund Officer Mr Hywel V Evans (until February 1995) . (until August 1994) Helen McLaughlin Ms S Meryl Evans (from September 1994) Sarah Stephens Mr Phil Jarrold Administrative Assistant Mr John R Jones (until October 1994) Lyn Lawton Mr Drew Reith (from January 1995) Ingela Mann Ms jenny Render
Mr North, Mid and West Wales Officer Michael Palmer John Payne Peter Bryant
Mr D Marc Phillips (until October 1994) Administrative Assistant (from June 1994) Sue Thomas Mr Ken Savage Welsh Mr Robert Taylor Language Development Officer (from December 1994) Simon Thomas Mrs Margaret Thorne, OBE, DL Office Mr P K Verma, JP Supervisor Diane Roberts
Sir Donald Walters Clerical Assistant &
Health & Mr Alistair Wood MBE Safety Officer Wendy Bidgway
Clerical Assistant Kathryn Thomas
Assessors to the Ruth Marks Janitor Ron Pask Executive Office Cleaner Ann Greenway Mr Alan Thornton, Welsh Office
Mr David G Evans, Welsh Office
Auditors
* WCVA would like to thank the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Messrs Zeidman & Davis following organisations for their
support: * Carnegie UK Trust * Welsh Office
Bankers * * The Lankelly Foundation Cardiff City Council National Westminster Bank Pic * * South Glamorgan County Council Mid Glamorgan TEC Dewi Llwyd Evans
* * Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust Tudor Trust SIXTY YE ARS OF SUCCESS
WCVA Members Clwyd Voluntary Services Council
Aelodau CGGC Coleg Harlech Community Design Service Aelodau bywyd mygedol Community Development Foundation Wales Honorary life members Community Enterprise Wales Reverend Ivor V Cassam Community Music Wales Mr Charles Harrison, JP Community Service Volunteers (Wales) | Mr H Noel jerman, CBE ] Crossroads Caring for Carers (Wales) Mr ] O Jones Cyd The Earl of Lisburne Cymdeithas Epilepsi Cymru Mr John C Price Cymdeithas Tai Hafan Professor G F Thomason, CBE Cyngor Gwlad Gwynedd
Cynon Valley Community Projects Association Aelodau llawn Cystic Fibrosis Trust Individual members Department of Social Policy & Applied Social Studies, U C Swansea Mr Julian Brinkworth Disability Wales Professor Maurice Broady Dyfed Association of Voluntary Services Col David Cox CVO MBE Equal Opportunities Commission The Hon I Davies Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations Mrs Majorie Dykins Gwent Racial Equality Council Mr Gerry Evans Huntington's Disease Association Mr Hywel V Evans Keep Wales Tidy Campaign Mr Hywel Griffiths Kidney Research Unit for Wales Ms Jane Hutt Manic Depression Fellowship Wales Mr W P Kitson Mencap in Wales Ms Jane Lewes Merched Y Wawr Mr John Lightfoot Mid Glamorgan Association of Voluntary Organisations Mr Roy Norris Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin Mr Julian Phillips National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux Mr Bob Pontin National Childminding Association Ms Kay Quinn National Children's Home in Wales Ms Jill Taylor National Council of Voluntary Organisations Mr Alain Thomas National Council of YMCA's of Wales Mr H Hugh Thomas National Federation of Women's Institutes Mr R M Thomas National Museum of Wales Mrs Margaret Thorne National Schizophrenia Fellowship Sir Donald Walters Newemploy Wales Mr Martin Warren Newport Resource Centre Mr Alistair Wood North Wales Victim Support Scheme
Order of St John Aelodau llawn Oxfam in Wales Full members Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied Council for Wales Age Concern Wales Play Wales Alcohol Concern Wales PONT Alzheimers Disease Society Powys Rural Council Army Cadet Force (Wales) Prince of Wales Committee Association of Welsh Community Health Councils Rescue Foundation for Brain Injured Infant Barnardo's Salvation Army British Deaf Association Save the Children Fund British Red Cross Society (Wales) Schizoprenia Association of Great Britain Broadcasting Support Services Shelter Cymru CAIS Ltd South Glamorgan Intervol Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales Standing "("Conference of Voluntary Organisations for People with a Carers National Association Mental fHandicap tin Wales Carningli Trust Tenants Participation Advisory Service (Wales) Charities Evaluation Services Ty Hafan - The Childrens Hospice in Wales Childline Cymru/Wales Urdd Gobaith Cymru Children in Wales Voices from Care The Children's Society Voluntary Arts Network Chwarae Teg WCVA ANNUAL R E P ORT 1994 - 199 5
Wales Assembly of Women Bridgend College Library
Wales Association for the Performing Arts Bridges Community Centre - Monmouth
Wales Association of County Voluntary Councils British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
Wales Co-operative Development and Training Centre British & Foreign Bible Society
British Red Cross Wales Council for the Blind Society - Cardiff
British Red Cross Wales Council for the Deaf Society - Crickhowell
British Red Cross Wales MIND Cymru Society - Pontypridd
Wales Pensioners British Trust for Conversation Volunteers
Wales Preschool Playgroups Association Brynmawr St District Mencap Society
Welsh Association of Youth Clubs Butetown History and Arts Centre
Welsh Centre for International Affairs Caldicot Resource Centre
Welsh Consumer Council Cardiff AIDS Helpline
Welsh Federation of Boys St Girls Croups in Wales Cardiff Body Positive
Wales Federation of Young Farmers Club Cardiff Bond Board
Welsh Initiative for Specialised Employment Cardiff Gypsy Sites Group
Welsh Joint Education Committee Cardiff MIND Accommodation Project
Welsh Refugee Council Cardiff Move-on Ltd
Welsh Scout Council Cardiff Rape & Sexual Abuse Line
Welsh Voluntary AIDS Forum Cardiff Shortlife Housing Association
Welsh Women's Aid Cardiff Single Women's Housing Group
West Glamorgan Council for Voluntary Service Cardiff Student Community Action
Women's Royal Voluntary Service, Welsh Headquarters Cardiff Universities Social Services
Cardiff & Vale Co-operative Development Centre
Aelodau cysylltiol Cardiff & Vale Enterprise Centre
Associate members Cardiff Women's Aid
Care & Abbey Road Centre - Bangor Repair Cymru
ABCD (Improving Access for Black Children with Disabilities) Cariad Cymru
Aberconwy Case Management Team Carmarthen Women's Aid
Cartrefi Aberconwy Homestart Cymru - Cardiff
Cartrefi Aberconwy MIND Cymru - Cwmbran
Cartrefi Abergavenny MIND Cymru - Pontyclun
Action Aid for the Disabled - Newport Catholic Children & Family Care Society (Wales)
Action on Smoking and Health Central Cardiff Citizens Advice Bureau
Adamsdown Housing Association Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
Age Concern, Gwent Ceredigion Crossroads Care
Age Concern, Mid Glamorgan Charities Aid Foundation
Age Concern, South Glamorgan Charity Projects
Age Concern, West Glamorgan Charter Housing
Agoriad Cyf Chartered Institute of Housing in Wales
Albert Road Methodist Church - Penarth Chepstow Crossroads Care
Alyn & Deeside Community Agency Chepstow & District Mencap Society
Amelia Trust Farm Children's Society, Canolfan Yr Esgobaeth - Bangor
Amman Children's Valley Enterprise Society, Diocesan Resource Centre - Wrexham
Anheddau Gwynedd Cyfyngedig Children's Society, Swansea & Brecon Diocesan Team
Antur Dwyryd Christian Aid - Cardiff
Antur Waunfawr Church of Wales, Board of Mission
Arts Disability Wales Citizen Advocacy in South Glamorgan
Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham City Centre Youth Project - Cardiff
Association of Welsh Wildlife Trusts Clwyd Association for Disability
Atsain Clwyd Deaf Society
Bangor Community Action Clwyd Mental Health Alliance
Bargoed & District YMCA Clwyd Social Services Department - Bangor
BBC Children in Need Clwyd Social Services Department - Wrexham
BBC Wales - Educational Broadcasting Services Clwyd Special Riding Trust Betws Amenities Society Coleg Elidyr Bobath Cymru Colwyn and District Citizen Advice Bureau
Boys' Brigade in Wales Colwyn Voluntary Support Services
Brecon & District Disabled Club Communities in Action
Brecon Volunteer Bureau Community Council of Hereford & Worcester SIXTY Y EARS OF SUCCESS
NACRO Community Design for Gwent Gwynedd Library Services HQ Training Services - Bath
Community Development Foundation (UK) Gwynedd Users Forum NACRO Youth Crime Section - Llandeilo
Community Development Foundation, Haverfordwest Mencap Society National Association of Citizens Advice
Ogwr Valleys Project Hay on Wye Community Support Bureau Bureaux - North Wales
Community Radio Association Health Promotion Wales National Association League of Hospital
Community Support Services Mental Help the Aged Wales Friends
National Handicap - Caernarfon Holyhead St District Citizen Advice Bureau Childminding Assocation -
Creative Choices Holyhead Opportunities Trust Knighton
Cruse Bereavement Care - Builth Wells Home St National Community Care Services - Childminding Association -
Cyd-Ddeall Cymru Conwy Swansea
Homestart UK National Cymdeithas Caer Las - Swansea Childminding Association -
Cymdeithas Cynghorau Bro a Thref Cymru Housing for Wales/Tai Cymru Wrexham
Cymdeithas Lies i'r Anabl HTV Cymru/Wales National Institute of Adult Continuing
Cyngor Cymru ar Alcohol Islwyn Council for the Disabled Education Cymru
I to I National Cynon Action for the Single Homeless Counselling Service Lottery Charities Board - National
Cynon Valley Care & Repair Independent Community Transport Ltd Committee for Wales
National Cynon Valley Crime Prevention Bureau Jigso: A Partnership in Community Action Schizophrenia Fellowship - Mold
National Daybreak John Summers Community Centre - Society for the Prevention of
Delyn Borough Council Deeside Cruelty of Children Cymru/Wales
Dial Llantristant & District Kids Clubs Network National Trust - Llandudno
Dial UK Kirkham & National Youth Elphick Agency - England
Dinas Powys Community Resource Centre L'Arche Neath MIND
Dinefwr Enterprise Co Ltd Leonard Cheshire Foundation - Llangollen Newport Action for the Single Homeless
Diocese of Llandaff Council for Social Leonard Cheshire Foundation - Shropshire Newport Borough Council, Community
Responsibility Llamau Housing Society Services Department
Disabled Drivers Association - Llandrindod Wells SPA Foundation Newport Borough Council, Housing St
Merthyr Tydfil Llanelli Centre Project Property Maintenance Division
Disablement Welfare Llanelli Crossroads Care Rights - Bangor Newport Borough Libraries
Dolen Cymru Llanelli & Dinefwr Community Health Newport MIND
Drama Association of Wales Council Newport Wastesavers
Drive - Mid Glamorgan Llanelli Youth St Childrens Association North Ely Community Resource Centre
Llanishen Good North Wales Association for Drug Aid - Cardiff Neighbours Spina Bifida St
Dyfed Alcohol Advisory Service Llanrumney Community Project (NCH) Hydrocephalus
North Wales Christian Dyfed Social Services - Aberaeron Llanwrtyd Wells Telecottage Family Project,
Dyfed Wildlife Trust Lliw Valley Women's Aid Stepping Stones
Elite North Wales Resource Centre for Disabled Supported Employment Agency Magic - Bridgend
Ely Home-Start Mencap in Wales, Carmarthen and Dinefwr People
Ely Hospital, Voluntary Services Department Mencap in Wales, Rhondda Vanguard Nutcracker Children's Trust
Office Offa Eurobase, Royal Welsh Showground Community Council - Wrexham
Menter Eye Level Photographic Hiraethog - Pentrefoelas Ogwr Care St Repair
Fairbridge Merthyr Alcohol and Advice Counselling Ogwr Community Health Council
Family Planning Association Service Ogwr Drug St Alcohol Self Help
Felin Fach Centre Merthyr Care St Repair Ogwr Groundwork Trust
First Choice Housing Association Merthyr & Cynon Groundwork Ogwr MIND
Foreign & Commonwealth Office Merthyr MIND Ogwr Single Homeless Action Committee
Old Barn Forest of Cardiff Merthyr Safer Cities Family Centre - Abergavenny
Gabalfa Mid Community Workshop Glamorgan Citizen Advocacy - Open University in Wales
Galon Uchaf Residents Board - Merthyr Pontypridd Opportunity Housing Trust
Mid Palmerston Tydfil Glamorgan County Forum - Rhondda Community Education Centre
Mid Pembrokeshire MIND Gingerbread in Wales - Swansea Glamorgan Health Authority
Glamorgan Federation of Women's Mid-Rhondda Tenants Association Pembrokeshire Opportunities Initiative
Institutes Montgomeryshire Citizen Advocacy Project (Mencap in Wales)
Glyntaff Tenants & Residents Association - Montgomeryshire Women's Aid Pengwern Further Education College
Pontypridd Motor Neurone Disease Association (Mencap)
Cofal Housing Trust MSF Penygraig Community Project
Growing Space NACRO NCT - Abergavenny People St Work Unit - Abergavenny
The Guiding Hand Association NACRO NCT - Barry Planning Aid Wales
Gwent College of Higher Education NACRO NCT - Merthyr Tydfil Pontypool MIND
NACRO Gwynedd Hospice at Home Housing - South Wales Pontypridd Citizens Advice Bureau WCVA ANNUAL RE P ORT 19 9 4 - 1995
Pontypridd Housing Association Swansea City Council, Housing Department
Swansea & Lliw Pontypridd Volunteer Bureau Valley Crime Prevention Panel
Port Talbot & Afan Single Homeless Society Swansea Drugs Project
Swansea MIND Powys AIDS Line
Swansea Student Powys Challenge Community Action
Swansea Womens Resource St Powys County Council - Chief Executive's Department Training Centre
Swansea Powys County Council - Communtiy Department Young Single Homeless Project
Powys Victim Support Switch - Bridgend
Powys Health Authority Taff Ely Drug Support Group
Presbyterian Church of Wales Youth Service Teen Challenge UK
Prince of Wales Committee - Mold Telecottages Wales
Tenants Prince of Wales Committee - Newtown Participation Advisory Service (Wales)
Prince's Trust Volunteers Tenovus
Prince's Youth Business Trust Tenovus Cancer Information Centre
Radnor Care St Repair Teulu'r Ynys Co Ltd
Radnor Support Project Tirion Trust Ltd
Ramblers' Association Torfaen Citizen Adovcacy
Raven House Trust Torfaen Community Transport St Dial-A-Ride Scheme
Relate Dyfed Torfaen Women's Aid
Relate North Wales Transport & General Workers Union Retired Members Association
Relate South Wales Trust for Sick Children in Wales
Resolv: The Society for the Prevention of Solvent and Volatile Ty Glyn Housing Society, Cardiff
Substances Abuse United Nations Association, International Youth Service
Rhayader St District Community Support United Welsh Housing Association
Rhondda Community Arts University of Wales, College of Cardiff Library
Rhymney Valley Community Health Council Unllais - Bangor
Rhymney Valley Home-Start Urban Regeneration Project
Vale of Rhymney Valley Social Services Clwyd MIND - Denbigh
Vale of Rhymney Valley Women's Aid Clwyd MIND - Rhyl
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Valley Arts Marketing
Rumney Good Neighbours Valley St Vale Community Arts
Save the Children Fund - Cynon Valley Project Valley Women's Roadshow
Scope - Wales Regional Office Valleys' Inititative for Adult Education
Viva Scope - Colwyn Bay Project, Rhondda
Sense Cymru Voluntary Community Service - Cardiff
Sequal Volunteer Centre UK
Somali Advice and Information Centre - Cardiff Wales St West Housing Association
South Glamorgan Alzheimers Disease Society Wales Youth Agency
South The Wallich Clifford Glamorgan County Council, Ely Community Enterprise Community - Cardiff
Workshops Welsh Agricultural College, Joint Library
South Glamorgan County Libraries Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities
South Glamorgan Crossroads Care Welsh Initiative for Conductive Education
South Glamorgan Play Services Association Welsh Office, Library
South Glamorgan Playbus Association Welsh Tenants Federation
South Glamorgan Probation Services Welsh Water IT Services
South Glamorgan Women's Workshop Welsh Women's Aid - Aberystwyth
South Pembrokeshire Partnership for Action with Rural Communities West Glamorgan Community Education
South Rhymney Community Mental Health Team West Glamorgan Forum
South Riverside Workers Community Development Centre - Cardiff Education Trust
South Wales Convalescent & Rest Home WRAP (Wrexham Advocacy Partnerships)
South Wales Federated Housing Association Ltd Wrexham Hospice & Cancer Support Centre
South Wales Miners' Library Wrexham Maelor Community Agency
Special Needs Housing Advisory Service in Wales Wrexham Maelor Groundwork Trust
Specialist Money Advice Bureau - Cardiff Wrexham Maelor Home-Start
St Briavels Centre for Child Development Young Families Centre - Swansea
St David's Foundation - Newport Youthlink Wales
Staying Put Agency - South Pembrokeshire
Streets Project - Ammanford
Swansea Citizens Advice Bureau CYNGOR WALES GWEI7HREDU COUNCIL FOR GWIRFODDOL VOLUNTARY CYMRU ACTION CYNGOR WALES GWEITHREDU > ' COUNCIL FOR GWIRFODDOL VOLUNTARY CYMRU ACTION
Cyngor Gweithredu Gwirfoddol Aelodaeth
Cymru yw'r corff sy'n cynrychioli Mae CGGC yn elusen annibynnol. Ymunwch a ni ac fe buddiannau elusennau, grwpiau fyddwch yn derbyn ein cylchgrawn misol sy'n cynnwys newyddion a barn y sector wirfoddol, cylchlythyrau gwirfoddol a gwirfoddolwyr ynghylch cyfarfodydd, cyrsiau hyfforddi a
chyhoeddiadau newydd, gostyngiadau ar rai cyrsiau a yng Nghymru. chynadleddau yn ogystal a blaenoriaeth ar gyfer rhai
gwasanaethau gwybodaeth a chynghori. Mae'r Cyngora sefydlwyd chwe deg Mae aelodaeth lawn yn agored i fudiadau gwirfoddol o flynyddoedd yn ol ym 1934 yn cenedlaethol, rhanbarthol ac 'ymbarel' ac i unrhyw
fudiad gwirfoddol nad yw'n cael ei gynrychioli ar y lefel ystod y dirwasgiad i gefnogi gwaith hon. Bob blwyddyn mae aelodau llawn yn ethol y clybiau newydd y dynion, yn Pwyllgor Gweithredol sy'n rhedeg y mudiad. cynrychioli buddiannau pob math o Mae aelodaeth gysylltiol yn agored i fudiadau lleol, canghennau o fudiadau gwirfoddol cenedlaethol,
weithgarwch gwirfoddol erbyn hyn, asiantaethau statudol a phreifat ac unigolion. o grwpiau gofal cymdeithasol i Ceir manylion ynghylch ffioedd a ffurflenni cais yn swyddfa Caerffili. grwpiau amgylcheddol, iechyd a Swyddfa Gofrestredig - Prif Swyddfa chelfyddydol. Llys Ifor
Heol Crescent Fel elusen annibynnol, mae gan Caerffili
CCCC 482 o aelodau o bob cwr o Morgannwg Ganol CF8 1XL
ffon 01222 869224
Gymru. Ei nod yw cefnogi a ffacs 01222 860627
chynrychioli buddiannau ei aelodau Swyddfa Gogledd Cymru
Ty Tyldesley a'r sector wirfoddol trwy lobi'o, Ffordd Clarence
cynrychioli, denu arian a darparu Craig-y-Don Llandudno amrywiaeth o wasanaethau fel Gwynedd LL30 1 DT
hyfforddiant a chyngor ynghylch ffon 01492 871833
ffacs 01492 871288 ariannu.
Swyddfa Ewropeaidd Mae gan CCCC ddau ddeg a thri o Ty Lon-y-Parc 7 Stryd Fawr staff yn gweithio yn ei dair swyddfa Y Trallwng
yng Nghaerffili, y Trallwng Powys SY21 7JP ffon 01938 552379 a Llandudno. ffacs 01938 552092
Rhif Elusen Cofrestredig 218093 CHWE DEG MLYNEDD O LWYDDIANT
Rhagair y Adroddiad y cadeirydd cyfarwyddwr Dyna i chi flwyddyn i'w Bu'r flwyddyn yn ddiwedd
chofio - blwyddyn o un cyfnod a dechrau ddathliadau, newidiadau cyfnod newydd. Mae'r rol
a sialensau. y bu'r Swyddfa Gymreig, Dathlu fod CGGC wedi cyrraedd ei ^g|Hi|gggjvJ awdurdodau lleol ac 60fed penblwydd, a bod ganddo le cydnabyddedig ym iechyd a chwangos eraill yn ei chwarae
mywyd Cymru. Bu estyn ein prif swyddfa yng Nghaerffili dros y deng mlynedd diwethaf wrthi'n
a datblygu gwasanaethau ehangach ym mhob maes yn cael ei had-drefnu.
arwydd o hyder y mudiad. Mae'r drefn newydd wedi'i sefydlu erbyn hyn, ond ni
ddaw ei heffaith lawn ar fudiadau Bu newid ym mhatrwm y gwasanaethau i'r gymuned; gwirfoddol yn eglur am rai blynyddoedd i ddod. cafodd hyn effaith ar bob un ohonom ac mae mwy o
Mae newid mor newidiadau i ddod. Mae CGGC wedi ceisio bod yn eang a hyn yn achosi pryder a gofid. Bu
CGGC sensitif i anghenion a dyheadau'r sector, tra'n bod yn yn flaenllaw yn y gwaith o sicrhau fod y sector
wirfoddol ar agenda'r drefn newydd ac o greu ddigon hyblyg i addasu iddynt. gweledigaeth realistig o'r dyfodol, trwy gyfrwng ei fentrau Dilynodd y sialensau yn dynn ar sodlau'r newidiadau: sut i Anelu at Amcanion Cyffredin a Partneriaid mewn lechyd. wneud yn siwr fod pobl Cymru'n cydnabod CGGC fel Mewn datblygiad arall, mae cyfnod newydd ar fin rhan o'u bywyd cymdeithasol a diwylliannol - nid fel cychwyn yn sgil lansio'r Loteri Cenedlaethol yn gynharach rhywbeth ymylol ond fel mudiad bywiog, perthnasol ac yn y flwyddyn. Bydd hyn yn ffynhonnell arian newydd ar effeithiol sy'n hybu dealltwriaeth pobl o amgylchedd gyfer mudiadau gwirfoddol, ond bydd rhai yn colli allan
cymhleth y degawd hwn, a'u cynorthwyo i gymryd rhan wrth i bobl newid eu ffordd o roi i elusennau.
ynddo. Unwaith eto mae CGGC yn arwain y ffordd trwy lobio,
Hoffwn ddiolch yn fawr i bawb - yn aelodau, staff a darparu gwybodaeth, ymchwilio a chynorthwyo'r fenter
chyfeillion a ymunodd a ni yn yr ymdrechion hyn, yn newydd hon er mwyn sicrhau bod mudiadau gwirfoddol
ystod blwyddyn arbennig dathlu'n jiwbilT diamwnt. yng Nghymru'n cael y fargen orau bosibl. Bu ar flaen y
gad hefyd o ran galw am iawndal i'r rhai fydd yn colli fwyaf.
Thema arall yn ystod y flwyddyn fu cydnabod rol y
gwirfoddolwr ac, unwaith eto, mae CGGC wedi bod yn weithgar gyda'i raglen hyfforddi ymddiriedolwyr. Mae
hefyd wedi datblygu'i strategaeth gwirfoddoli ei hun yng
Nghymru, a fydd yn gweithredu syniadau tim Make a
Difference y llywodraeth.
Yn ystod y flwyddyn mae CGGC wedi ceisio rhoi arweiniad
strategol cryf, a siarad ar ran grwpiau gwirfoddol a
gwirfoddolwyr yng Nghymru gyda llais clir ac uchel ei
barch. Mae'r llais hwn yn hanfodol bwysig mewn cyfnod
o ansicrwydd a newid. Mae CGGC yn cryfhau'r liais
hwnnw, a bydd yn parhau i wneud hynny trwy gryfhau ei
gysylltiadau gyda'i aelodau, sicrhau mwy o sylw yn y
cyfryngau, cynyddu ymwybyddiaeth o'i waith ac ehangu
ei gysylltiadau gyda'r rhai sy'n gwneud penderfyniadau ar
bob lefel.
Ni fyddai gwaith CGGC yn bosibl heb gymorth ei nifer
cynyddol o aelodau, sy'n rhoi eu hamser i gynnal y
gweithgareddau yn rhad ac am ddim a'r nifer o
ymddiriedolaethau ac asiantaethau'r llywodraeth sydd
wedi cyfrannu at ei adnoddau.
Diolch yn fawr. ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL C G C C 19 9 4 19 9 5
Edrych yn ol dros chwe deg mlynedd o lwyddiant
CGGC yn
v Tridegau < Gosododd diweithdra aruthrol y tridegau
cynnar y seiliau ar gyfer lansio Cyngor
Gwasanaeth Cymdeithasol De
Cymru a Mynwy ym mis Chwefror 1934 -
a ddaeth yn ddiweddarach yn Gyngor
Gweithredu Gwirfoddol Cymru (CGGC).
Ffocws y gwaith oedd cynorthwyo'r canolfannau
a'r clybiau galwedigaethol i ddynion diwaith a oedd yn ymddangos ar hyd a lied y cymoedd ar yr au adeg honno. Eu nod uchelgeisiol oedd
"cydgysylltu gwaith yr holl asiantaethau presennol
sy'n cyfrannu tuag at anghenion diwylliannol,
gyrfaol, corfforol a hamdden oedolion a phobl ifanc De Cymru." (Adroddiad blynyddol 1934-5) Y Roedd hyn yn cynnwys gwaith ym meysydd iechyd (roedd nyrs
yn costio £100 y flwyddyn), llyfrgelloedd y cymoedd,
cynlluniau cydweithredol i dyrchu glo mynydd a hyd yn oed Pumdegan Erbyn dechrau'r pumdegau roedd dosbarthiadau 'cadw'n heini' i fenywod. gweithgareddau'r Cyngor yn amrywiol dros ben, gan gynnwys Y cymorth i'r henoed a'r ifainc, addysg i oedolion, canolfannau Pedwardegau cymunedol a neuaddau pentref, a hyd yn oed cerddoriaeth a "Un o effeithiau pwysig y rhyfel, gyda'i fyrdd rheolau a drama. Ac roedd y rhain i gyd yn "annog a chydgysylltu rheoliadau, fu'r cynnydd mewn problemau a phryderon ymdrechion cymdeithasol yn y dref a chefn gwlad". personol nad oes ateb parod iddynt..." Rhoddwyd mwy o bwyslais ar gefn gwlad wrth i'r Cyngor (Adroddiad blynyddol 1940) ddechrau ymdrin a materion y gymuned wledig, gan weithio Ynghyd a gwaith arall yn ymwneud a'r gyda Chynghorion Cymuned Cwledig ar "broblem ganolog cefn rhyfel, sefydlodd y gwlad Cymru heddiw - problem diboblogi". adroddiad Cyngor saith deg o blynyddol 1952. Ganolfannau Cynghori Gwelwyd dirywiad Clybiau'r Dynion ar gyfer y diwaith yn ystod y yn yr ardal, gyda chymorth degawd hwn - ond roedd Clybiau'r Menywod yn ffynnu, ar y Haw grant gan y llywodraeth, i arall, gydag oddeutu 110 ohonynt "yn cael eu gwasanaethu gan gynorthwyo i ddelio a'r bum hyfforddwraig gwaith problemau y cyfeirwyd atynt Haw a dwy hyfforddwraig uchod. crefftau cartref llawn
Dilynodd y wladwriaeth les yn amser".
dynn ar sodlau heddwch, ac (Adroddiad blynyddol roedd rhai yn pryderu y byddai 1959-60) darpariaeth gan y wladwriaeth yn
"mygu gweithgaredd gwirfoddol". Ond
diflannodd yr ofn hwn wrth i'r sector
ehangu i gyfeiriadau newydd. Ym 1946
ehangodd y Cyngor ei waith i gynnwys
Cymru gyfan a dechreuodd ymwneud
fwyfwy ym mhopeth o ffoadurion i
waith crefftau.
♦ C H EG M A W E D L Y N E DD O LWYDDIANT
Cweithdy Menywod De "d ©huueeJegsiu Morgannwg. Yn ystod 'degawd yr ifainc'
I I roedd y Cyngor yn
^91 canolbwyntio fwyfwy ar
yr henoed, gan benodi ei
swyddog llawn amser cyntaf i
ddelio gyda
gweinyddiaeth
"Pwyllgor Gofal yr
Henoed yng Nghymru". Bu'r
Cyngor yn goruchwilio gwaith y
pwyllgor hwn ers 1947. Yn ddiweddarach daeth y corff hwn AU yn Gyngor yr Henoed.
Parhaodd y gwaith gyda chanolfannau
cymuned, yr ifainc, drama, Canolfannau
Cynghori a menywod. Roedd gan y Cyngor
Adran y Menywod yn delio a materion megis
hawliau menywod, pensiynau, budd-daliadau nawdd cymdeithasol,
a gofal cymunedol - yn ogystal ag un penderfyniad ar "ddefnydd
arian cyhoeddus mewn perthynas a 'Hippies' a 'phobl y Blodau'".
(Adroddiad blynyddol 1968-69) Y NAWDESAU
Mae 470 o grwpiau ac unigolion ledled Cymru o bob rhan o
fywyd gwirfoddol yn aelodau o CGGC erbyn hyn. Mae un o bob k I Y SaRhdegau tri o bobl Bu newidiadau yn gwneud gwaith gwirfoddol erbyn hyn ac mae'r yn strwythur y Cyngor yn ystod y
sector yn llwyddo i weithredu ar incwm saithdegau. Daeth nifer o bwyllgorau'n blynyddol o £500m. Mae'r dyfodol yn cynnig sawl sialens newydd annibynnol, gan ailymddangos fel megis y diwylliant
contractio, gofal yn y gymuned a'r Loteri Cenedlaethol. Bwriad Cyngor yr Anabl yng
CGGC, o ran y rhain a materion eraill, Nghymru, Cyngor yw cefnogi achos y sector
wirfoddol, gan lobio ar ei rhan a chynorthwyo i greu Cenedlaethol yr Henoed
partneriaethau gyda'r sectorau statudol a phreifat. yng Nghymru (Cyngor yr Er fod prif swyddfa'r Cyngor yng Nghaerffili o Henoed), a Chyngor Cwasanaethau hyd, mae wedi
agor swyddfeydd eraill yn y Canolbarth a Cogledd Cymru ac Gwirfoddol yr Ifainc yng Nghymru. mae'n Ailddiffiniodd gweithredu polisi ddwyieithog. Mae'r gwaith o gyllido, y Cyngor ei rol ar gyfer y
hyfforddi a hybu grwpiau gwirfoddol ar lefel Cymru, Ewrop a dyfodol ac am y tro cyntaf penododd
Phrydain yn parhau er mwyn adeiladu sector wirfoddol gref ac swyddogion nad oeddynt yn rhai arbenigol i
annibynnol yng Nghymru. "gydgysylltu'n gyffredinol gyda'r mudiadau
gwirfoddol yng Ngogledd a De Cymru".
Arweiniodd y newid hefyd at lansio cyfres o fentrau llythrennedd a hyfforddiant, i bobl ifanc diwaith yn ogystal ag i'r rhai hyn. Vfl KIVThDEGRJ
Ym 1982 dechreuwyd defnyddio'r enw Cyngor Cweithredu
Gwirfoddol Cymru yn lie Cyngor Gwasanaethau
Cymdeithasol Cymru, gan adlewyrchu'r ymrwymiad i "hybu, cynorthwyo a hwyluso gwaith gwirfoddol a datblygiad cymunedol yng Nghymru". Lansiwyd gwybodaeth a chyhoeddiadau newydd, a mentrau cyhoeddusrwydd a datblygu cymunedol. Dechreuodd CCGC hefyd weinyddu'r Gronfa Cwaith
Gwirfoddol yng Nghymru.
Gwnaethpwyd mwy o waith i gefnogi elusennau yng Nghymru,
Ail godi to Neuadd y Gweithwyr Cwmparc wedi tan ym 1987 gan gynnwys rhoi cyngor ar hyfforddiant a chyllido yn ogystal a chymorth gyda phrosiectau penodol megis 'Cymerwch Ofal', wedi' anelu at wella safon byw y tlawd a'r henoed. Dechreuodd y
Cyngor hefyd wneud gwaith ymchwil i fonitro effeithiau polisiau'r llywodraeth leol a chenedlaethol ar y sector wirfoddol. ♦ Y Flwyddyn mewn Ffocws
Roedd Cyngor Gweithredu Gwirfoddol
Cymru (CGGC) yn dathlu'i benblwydd yn chwe deg ac yn gwneud mwy o waith cynrychioli mewn nifer o feysydd, yn arbennig y loteri cenedlaethol.
Mae'r adroddiad canlynol yn rhoi manylion y meysydd allweddol a achosodd bryder i elusennau a grwpiau gwirfoddol Cymru dros y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, ac yn nodi pa gamau a gymerwyd.~~ ^
Mudiadau Gwirfoddol ym mis Mae hefyd yn adolygu'r gwasanaethau Chwefror fod llawer o bobl yn credu fod elusennau'n elwa rheolaidd a ddarparwyd i'r sector wirfoddol llawer mwy o'r loteri nag yr oeddynt mewn gwirionedd, a bod yng Nghymru. r ' rhai yn prynu tocynnau loteri yn hytrach na rhoi i elusen.
Ym mis Tachwedd cynhaliodd CGGC ddiwrnod gwybodaeth ar Loteri Cendlaethol gyfer y sector ar y pum cronfa. Y Loteri Cenedlaethol a'i effaith aryr arian y mae elusennau yn Cafodd swyddog datblygu cenedlaethol CGGC ei secondio i ei dderbyn oedd prif destun ail hanner y flwyddyn ariannol. Fwrdd Elusennau'r Loteri Cenedlaethol a threfnodd CGGC bum Chwaraeodd CGCC rol hanfodol yn cynrychioli'r elusennau - diwrnod o ymgynghori ledled Cymru ar ran y Bwrdd. Bu hyn gan geisio: yn fodd i'r Bwrdd ymgynghori gydag elusennau ar ei ganllawiau
• Hwyluso'r cyfathrebu rhwng Bwrdd Elusennau'r Loteri drafft ar gyfer ariannu grwpiau gwirfoddol.
Cenedlaethol (NLCB) a'r sector wirfoddol; Mewn nifer o gyfweliadau gyda'r cyfryngau pwysleisiodd CGGC
• darparu am gwybodaeth i grwpiau y mai rhwng 1 c ac 11 c o bob tocyn loteri punt fyddai'n
pum cronfa 'achos da'; dod i elusennau Cymru - ac anogodd bobl i barhau i
• ymchwilio i effaith y Loteri ar gefnogi grwpiau lleol.
faint mae pobl yn ei roi i Mae CGGC hefyd wedi gwneud dau gais i Gronfa
elusennau; ac Mileniwm y Loteri ar gyfer:
» egluro gwir effaith y • cyfleuster fideo-gynadleddau aml-bwynt i Gymru a
Loteri ar elusennau i'r i neuaddau pentref Prydain - ar y cyhoedd trwy'r gydag Acre a'i cyfryngau. chwaerfudiadau yn yr
Dangosodd gwaith Alban a Gogledd a gomisiynwyd gan CGGC a Iwerddon.
Chyngor Cenedlaethol
Bu'r rhaglen Loteri a gyflwynwyd gan Anthea Turner a Cordon Kennedy yn boblogaidd iawn gyda'r gwylwyr. Trwy'r cyfryngau, eglurodd CGGC i'r cyhoedd gwir effaith y Loteri ar elusennau. CHWE DEG MLYNE DD O LWYDDIANT
Cefnogaeth llywodraeth leol, Y Llywodraeth ganol a'r ad-drefnu Cychwynnodd y flwyddyn dan gysgod toriad o ddeg y cant yng
Er ngrantiau'r Swyddfa Gymreig i CGGC a'r Gronfa Wirfoddoli gwaetha'r ymdeimlad o dawelwch cyn storm yr ad-drefnu yng
Nghymru (gweler tud.8). Ond yn ym 1996, aeth CGGC ymlaen a'i waith yn egniol mewn dau dilyn ymgyrchu brwd gyda'r faes: Swyddfa Gymreig, fe adnewyddwyd y ddau grant.
• Sicrhau Cynhaliwyd cyfarfodydd gyda gweinidogion a mwy o gymorth i'r sector wirfoddol a phartneriaeth swyddogion y
Swyddfa Gymreig a San Steffan ar well rhyngddi a llywodraeth leol. amrywiaeth eang o bynciau
o • strategaeth wirfoddoli i arian gan Ewrop; o'r loteri i Annog grwpiau i ddod at ei gilydd yn ardaloedd y dau ar drosglwyddo grantiau cymdeithasol a chymunedol o'r Swyddfa hugain o awdurdodau unedol newydd a gweithio gyda'r Gymreig ac o'r cwangos i'r cynghorau lleol. pwyllgorau trosglwyddo ar y trefniadau ar gyfer ariannu
Cyhoeddodd CGGC Ydyn Nhw'n Gwrando - o sut grwpiau gwirfoddol yn y dyfodol ac ar eu cyfraniad at arolwg mae'r
llywodraeth wedi gweithredu ei astudiaeth o ddarparu'r gwasanaethau. O ganlyniad mae cysylltiad wedi'i effeithiolrwydd.
Dangosodd y bu gwelliant yng ngweinyddiad ac sefydlu rhwng y sector wirfoddol a bron pob un o'r effeithiolrwydd
pwyllgorau trosglwyddo. cynlluniau grantiau.
Darparodd CGGC gyngor i bwyllgorau trosglwyddo hefyd ar weithio gyda'r sector wirfoddol, a chychwynnodd 'ymarfer tracio' i ddilyn hynt a helynt y grwpiau trwy gydol y broses o ad-drefnu.
Cyhoeddwyd sawl dogfen allweddol yn ogystal:
Cael Hyd i'r Cyllid: Arolwg 1992/3 ar ariannu gan awdurdodau
lleol i fudiadau gwirfoddol Cymru - gwelwyd fod y cymorth a dderbynnir trwy law awdurdodau lleol wedi codi i £21.7 miliwn ond ei fod yn parhau i fod yn is na'r swm cyfatebol yn Lloegr.
Ad-drefnu Llywodraeth Leol a'r Sector Wirfoddol - diweddariad
a Cweithio Gyda'n Gilydd yng Nghymru - diweddariad o'r crynodeb, Anelu at Amcanion Cyffredin - canllaw ar gyfer cydweithredu rhwng awdurdodau lleol a'r sector wirfoddol - a
baratowyd gan CGGC, Cyngor Dosbarthau Cymru, Cynulliad
Siroedd Cymru, y Swyddfa Gymreig a Bwrdd Rheoli
Llywodraeth Leol. Caiff hwn ei anfon at aelodau'r awdurdodau cysgodol newydd.
O ganlyniad, mae chwarter yr awdurdodau newydd wedi ymrwymo i ddilyn model Anelu at Amcanion Cyffredin, ac mae chwarter arall wedi mynegi diddordeb ynddo.
Gwirfoddoli
Yn sgTI adfer grant y Swyddfa Gymreig, aeth CGGC yn ei flaen i
benodi swyddog gwirfoddoli llawn-amser sydd wedi cychwyn
erbyn hyn ar y gwaith o ddatblygu strategaeth wirfoddoli ar
gyfer Cymru i weithredu argymhellion menter Make a
Difference. Cadeirydd CGGC, Marjorie Dykins, sy'n cynrychioli
Cymru yn y fenter.
Mae The Underdogs', grwp gwirfoddol o fwy na phedwardeg o bobl ifanc o St Mellons, Caerdydd, a ymddangosodd yn Rhwydwaith Cymru, yn perfformio mewn digwyddiadau cymunedol a gwyliau. Cefnogir y grwp gan Cerddoriaeth ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL C G C C 19 9 4 19 9 5
dau ar bymtheg o grwpiau gwirfoddol, yn hyrwyddo gwaith y Ewrop sector yng Nghymru. Agorwyd y Pafiliwn, a drefnwyd gan Bu 1994 yn flwyddyn o newidiadau pwysig yn y rhaglenni CGGC a Chyngor Cymru i'r Anabl, gan Rhodri Morgan AS, a ariannu Ewropeaidd a rhoddodd CGGC wybodaeth i'r sector threfnwyd cyfres o ddigwyddiadau gan grwpiau fel Sefydliad y am y datblygiadau. Cymeradwywyd y rhaglenni ar gyfer Merched, Cymdeithas Genedlaethol y Cynhalwyr a Phlant yng ardaloedd diwydiannol de Cymru a'r ardaloedd gwledig wedi Nghymru. cryn oedi, a diolch i lobi'o gan CGGC roeddynt yn cynnwys
mesurau penodol i ariannu datblygu cymunedol. Bu CGGC
hefyd yn cynrychioli'r sector ar y pwyllgorau newydd meinach
yn y rhanbarthau hyn.
Yn dilyn trafodaethau gyda'n chwaer-gynghorau yn yr Alban a
Lloegr, cafodd rhaglen Amcan 3 Cronfa Gymdeithasol Ewrop ar
gyfer hyfforddi pobl ddiwaith ei datganoli'n llwyr. Cafwyd
ymgynghori eang cyn trefnu proses ymgeisio newydd wedi'i
chynllunio ar gyfer mudiadau Cymreig ac ar gyfer targedu
anghenion. Derbyniwyd ceisiadau gwerth dros £4 miliwn ac
argymhellwyd y dylid rhoi arian i bedwar deg o fudiadau
gwahanol.
Rhoddodd y sector wirfoddol ei hymateb i raglen ymgynghori'r
Comisiwn Ewropeaidd ar bolisi cymdeithasol. Bu rhai
newidiadau yn staff y tim Ewropeaidd hefyd a phenodwyd
Swyddog Cronfa Gymdeithasol Ewrop newydd yng Nghaerffili a
Swyddog Gweinyddol newydd yn y Trallwng. Deliodd y tim a
dros 400 o ymholiadau ar ariannu, rhwydweithiau a lobio yn
ystod y flwyddyn.
Yr Iaith Gymraeg
Bydd darparu gwasanaethau yn y Gymraeg yn dod yn fwyfwy
pwysig wrth i ddisgwyliadau gynyddu yn sgil y Ddeddf laith. Fe
allai mudiadau sy'n cael eu contractio i ddarparu gwasanaethau
ar gyfer cynghorau lleol weld ei bod yn orfodol arnynt i gynnig
gwasanaeth dwyieithog.
Er mwyn cynorthwyo grwpiau gwirfoddol yn y maes hwn mae
CGGC wedi penodi Swyddog Datblygu'r laith Gymraeg, gyda
chymorth ariannol gan Fwrdd yr laith. Mae wrthi'n sefydlu
prosiect i weithio gydag ugain o grwpiau i ddarparu polisiau
iaith. Bydd hefyd yn paratoi canllawiau drafft ar bolisiau iaith ar
gyfer y sector wirfoddol. Iechyd Cynhaliwyd dau ddiwrnod ymgynghori gyda'r sector a bydd Dangosodd gwaith ymchwil CGGC fod y Gwasanaeth lechyd yn paneli Gogledd a De Cymru'n cyfarfod yn fuan i edrych ar derbyn £7.50 o gyllid gan y sector wirfoddol am bob £1 y arferion da. mae'n ei roi fel grantiau i grwpiau gwirfoddol. Bu'r ail Bafiliwn Gweithredu Gwirfoddol blynyddol yn yr Cyhoeddodd CGGC Partneriaid mewn lechyd ar y cyd gydag Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yng Nglyn-nedd, a oedd yn cynnwys Awdurdodau lechyd Cymru - gyda'r nod o ddangos sut mae'r
newidiadau i'r gwasanaeth iechyd yn ei gwneud yn bwysicach
fyth fod awdurdodau iechyd a grwpiau gwirfoddol yn
cydweithio i ddarparu gofal iechyd. Lansiwyd Partneriaid mewn
lechyd mewn cynhadledd waith a dosbarthwyd y canllaw a'r
crynodeb ledled Cymru a thu hwnt. Mae rhai awdurdodau
iechyd eisoes wedi dechrau gweithredu'i argymhellion.
Rhodri Morgan gyda staff CGGC yn y Pafiliwn Gweithredu Gwirfoddol.
♦ CHWE DEG MLYNE DD O LWYDDIANT
Cyllid ymddiriedolaethau gyda'r Swyddfa Gymreig i recriwtio pobl o'r gymuned Yn ehangach fel 'aseswyr lleyg' i archwilio gwasanaethau dilyn y gynhadledd Codi Pontydd a gynhaliwyd gan CGGC - cymdeithasol yr awdurdodau lleol. pan gyfarfu wyth ar hugain o ymddiriedolaethau Prydeinig a Cafodd chynrychiolwyr y sector wirfoddol yng Nghymru yng Swyddog Polisi CGGC ei secondio i'r Swyddfa Gymreig
i Nghaerdydd, trefnwyd cyfarfod o grwp newydd o elusennau adolygu'r cynllun grant Gofal Cymunedol Hyblyg.
Prydeinig yn Uundain o dan yr enw Grwp Buddiannau Cymreig Dyfodol y sector Cymdeithas y Sefydliadau Elusennol er mwyn edrych ar ffyrdd o Bu llawer o drafod yn ystod y flwyddyn ar natur a dyfodol y ledaenu gwybodaeth am grwpiau gwirfoddol Cymru a sectorau elusennol a gwirfoddol ac mae CGGC wedi lansio ei chynyddu'r cysylltiad a hwy. agwedd bragmataidd ei hun at hyn.
Mae CGGC yn amcangyfrif mai 1% yn unig o'r arian a Mae grwp llywio o gynrychiolwyr y sector wirfoddol wedi dderbynir gan grwpiau Cymreig sy'n dod o goffrau cychwyn paratoi maniffesto drafft ar ddyfodol y sector ymddiriedolaethau ac mae 'Grwp Buddiannau Cymreig' wirfoddol yng Nghymru, gan ofyn beth sydd gan grwpiau Cymdeithas y Sefydliadau Elusennol yn ceisio newid y sefyllfa. Cymru i'w ddweud amdanynt eu hunain, a beth maent am ei Mae CGGC hefyd wedi ailgychwyn yr ymdrech i sefydlu cronfa gael gan lywodraeth y dyfodol. Bwriedir cynnal nifer o
ymddiriedolaeth yn arbennig ar gyfer grwpiau Cymreig - gyfarfodydd ymgynghori. sefydlwyd grwp llywio i edrych i'r mater. O ganlyniad mae rhai Mae'n debygol y bydd llai o ansicrwydd ynghylch siap a maint Sefydliadau Elusennol yn adolygu eu polisiau, a gallai hyn y sector yn sgil llwyddiant cais CGGC a'i chwaer-fudiadau i gynyddu lefel y cymorth a roddir i elusennau yng Nghymru. gynnal gwaith ymchwil i'r sector ar ran y Swyddfa Ystadegol Gwasanaethau cynghori Ganolog.
Lansiodd CGGC adroddiad o'r enw
Gwasanaethau Cynghori Annibynnol Gwasanaethau
yng Nghymru mewn ymgais i Cyngor gynyddu'r cymorth strategol a'r
, „Hony««"WC,""U Canolbwyntiodd gwasanaethau cynghori M#ev arian a roddir i'r maes hanfodol hwn CGGC unwaith eto ar ariannu, gan Yn sydd yn ami yn cael ei anwybyddu. ol yng NSW""" „„*»»«***" gynnwys arian gan Ewrop a'r Loteri y Cyhoeddwyd yr adroddiad ar y cyd Cenedlaethol. Deliwyd a rhagor na ffigyrau
gyda'r Canolfannau Cynghori, mewn thri chant o ymholiadau cyffredinol Shelter, Canolfan Gyfreithiol cyhoeddiad am ariannu a llawer mwy am arian Caerdydd, Asiantaethau Cynghori newydd gan CGGC, gan Ewrop. cymunedol a chynghorau Ffeithiau Ariannu, a Caiff cyngor CGGC ar gwirfoddol sirol ledled Cymru. lansiwyd yn y Cyfarfod ariannu ei gefnogi gan Cyffredinol Blynyddol Cyllido'r Mae gwasanaethau o'r fath yn waith ymchwil manwl ar Dyfodol, derbyniodd y 22,000 o darparu cyngor annibynnol ar ffynonellau arian ar grwpiau gwirfoddol yr amcangyfrifir sy'n faterion megis dyledion, budd- gyfer y sector bodoli yng Nghymru gyfanswm o oddeutu s£hy„o«htrvor daliadau a materion cyfreithiol i * * £600 mewn wirfoddol, fel a miliwn incwm ym 1992/93. 6,mru BT,a"' dros hanner miliwn o bobl yng nodir Daeth oddeutu chwe II yn yr deg y cant o hwn o roddion r Nghymru bob blwyddyn, ond f i adrannau eraill. gwirfoddol - gan uniglion, cwmniau ac maent yn ami yn dibynnu ar Ymdrinwyd a ymddiriedolaethau, neu roddion mewn ansicrwydd grantiau tymor byr, amrywiol. % thros gant o ewyllysiau - tra bod pedwar deg y cant wedi Mae'r atebion a gynigiwyd i'r broblem yn cynnwys polisi ar y dod o ffynonellau cyhoeddus, ymholiadau ar cyd gyda llywodraeth ganol a lleol fydd yn sicrhau fod lefel llywodraeth ganol a lleol, cwangos, faterion cyfreithiol awdurdodau benodedig o wasanaethau ledled Cymru'n derbyn arian sicr. iechyd ac Ewrop. hefyd. Bydd y Loteri Cenedlaethol ac Gofal Rhoddodd CGGC cymdeithasol gymorth i ad-drefnu llywodraeth leol
Cafodd adroddiad CGGC Gofal Cymdeithasol - A Yw'n rwydwaith o yn cael effaith ddofn ar Gweithio? gryn sylw gan y cyfryngau a bu'n destun trafod I swyddogion batrymau ariannu ymhlith cyfarwyddwyr gwasanaethau cymdeithasol ledled trwyddedu traddodiadol.
Cymru. Ers hynny mae CGGC wedi parhau i roi cymorth awdurdodau lleol
i rwydwaith o grwpiau sy'n ymwneud a gofal sy'n rhoi cyngor ar
cymdeithasol. Mae wedi darparu hyfforddiant ar waith dwyll mewn
datblygu yn y maes hwn rhwng grwpiau cenedlaethol elusennau, yn ogystal a
a chynghorau gwirfoddol sirol. Mae hefyd wedi thynnu sylw at y mater yn y
cwblhau canllawiau ar gydweithredu a chydweithio cyfryngau.
rhwng y ddau grwp.
Mae CGGC hefyd wedi datblygu prosiect peilot ♦ ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL CCCC 1994 - 1995
Hyfforddiant Gwybodaeth
Mae CCCC yn darparu gwasanaethau hyfforddi ac ymgynghori Ail-lansiwyd cylchgrawn misol CGGC, Rhwydwaith Cymru, gyda
a rhaglen ddigwyddiadau lawn, yn ogystal a helpu trefnu dyluniad ac arddull newydd sbon ym mis lonawr 1995. Caiff ei
digwyddiadau ar gyfer mudiadau gwirfoddol eraill. ddylunio'n fewnol a'i gynhyrchu i safon uchel dros ben. Nod
Rhwydwaith Cymru yw darparu'r newyddion a'r farn Mae'r rhaglen hyfforddi'n cynnwys cyrsiau un-dydd ledled ddiweddaraf am y sector wirfoddol yng Nghymru ac mae'r Cymru a chyrsiau preswyl byr dan ofal hyfforddwyr profiadol ar gwerthiant a nifer yr hysbysebion wedi cynyddu. Llwyddwyd bynciau fel arian gan Ewrop, datblygu staff a chyfraith unwaith eto i elusennau. gynhyrchu'r newyddlen ddeu-fisol, ddwyieithog ar
gyfer saith cyngor gwirfoddol sirol; y rhifynnau wythnosol o Lansiodd CCGC ei raglen genedlaethol ar gyfer hyfforddi wasanaeth newyddion neu 'ymwybyddiaeth gyfredol' CGGC; a ymddiriedolwyr, yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol. Cafodd y diweddaru'r taflenni gwybodaeth. rhaglen, a anelir at y miloedd o ymddiriedolwyr yng Nghymru, Cynhyrchwyd un ar bymtheg o gyhoeddiadau, pedwar ar ddeg ei rhedeg yn llwyddiannus trwy gydol yr hydref a'r gaeaf. ohonynt yn ddwyieithog, a chyflwynwyd arddull fewnol Cytunodd Charity Projects a thri Chyngor Hyfforddiant a Menter arbennig. (TECau) i ariannu consortiwm hyfforddi ar gyfer Cogledd,
Cafodd y cyhoeddiadau eu marchnata a'u dosbarthu am ddim Gorllewin a Chanolbarth Cymru. Bydd y consortiwm yn cwrdd neu eu gwerthu, a chynhyrchwyd deunydd ar gyfer ag anghenion grwpiau gwirfoddol bach mewn ardaloedd arddangosfeydd yn ogystal. gwledig ac rydym yn gwneud cais am arian cyfatebol gan
Ewrop. Paratowyd tri deg a phump o ddatganiadau i'r wasg a bu
cynnydd eto yn lefel y sylw a gafwyd gan y cyfryngau. Roedd y digwyddiadau pwysig eraill a drefnwyd yn ystod y Rhoddwyd sylw arbennig o dda i faterion yn ymwneud a'r flwyddyn yn cynnwys: sioe ffasiynau jiwbili diamwnt CGGC, Loteri Cenedlaethol. ymgynghori ar y loteri, cynhadledd cyswllt Cymreig y Sefydliad
Cymorth i Elusennau, hyfforddiant am ddim ar godi arian gyda Cafodd gwasanaeth llyfrgell a gwybodaeth CGGC ei gynnal ac
Sefydliad Templeton, Cyfarfod Cyffredinol Blynyddol CCGC ar atebwyd 1,167 o ymholiadau ynghylch pob agwedd ar
Ariannu yn y Dyfodol, a chynhadledd a drefnwyd ar ran CADW, weithgaredd gwirfoddol. asiantaeth henebion Cymru. Bu CGGC hefyd yn gyfrifol am Effeithiolrwydd mewnol gyd-gysylltu'r Rhwydwaith Cymorth Hyfforddiant, dosbarthu Cyflwynodd CGGC gategoriau aelodaeth a chostau newydd a gwybodaeth ar Gymwysterau diweddaru'i gyfansoddiad - parhaodd nifer yr aelodau i Galwedigaethol Cenedlaethol, a gynyddu. Cychwynnwyd ar waith ymchwil i'r systemau chynrychioli Cymru mewn cyfathrebu gyda'r aelodau a'r ddelwedd gorfforaethol, a trafodaethau ar greu chynhaliwyd a chymeradwywyd arolwg o dechnoleg Mudiad Hyfforddi gwybodaeth. Paratowyd a chymeradwywyd llawlyfr Diwydiant ar gyfer y personel a pholisi iechyd a diogelwch yn ogystal.
Cronfa Wirfoddoli yng Nghymru ac Ymddiriedolaeth Elusennol Esmee Fairbairn
Derbyniodd 47 o grwpiau gwirfoddol grantiau yn
amrywio o ychydig o gannoedd i bron i £20,000
r4\t gan y Gronfa Wirfoddoli yng Nghymru.
Ariannwyd cyfleoedd newydd i fwy na
1,600 o wirfoddolwyr gyda chymorth y
grantiau hyn.
Cafodd penderfyniad y Swyddfa
Gymreig i dorri ei nawdd i'r cynllun o
10% ei wyrdroi ac erbyn diwedd y
flwyddyn roedd £268,769 wedi ei roi i
grwpiau ledled Cymru.
Mae CGGC hefyd yn gweinyddu
grantiau bach ar ran Ymddiriedolaeth
Elusennol Esmee Fairbairn. Rhoddwyd
54 o grantiau, cyfanswm o £27,397, i
grwpiau gwirfoddol ym 1994/95.
Aelod o fforwm defnyddwyr gwasanaeth pobl hyn mewn sesiwn 'dod i nabod ei gilydd' a arweinwyd gan Swyddog hyfforddi CGCC. C H W E DEC MLYNEDD O LWYDDIANT
Dathliadau Jiwbili Diamwnt
Jiwbili Diamwnt Cinio penblwydd Daeth dillad ffasiynol am gyn lleied a £3.50 a thipyn o sglein i
ddathliadau jiwbili diamwnt CCCC yn Neuadd y Ddinas,
Caerdydd ym mis Mehefin.
Trefnwyd y dillad ar gyfer y sioe gan siopau
naw elusen sy'n gweithredu yng Nghymru.
Dyma oedd uchafbwynt y parti penblwydd
chwe deg oed a oedd hefyd yn cynnwys
y siaradwr gwadd, Roy Noble, cinio
bwffe a gwobrwyon gan y Cronfa
Wirfoddoli yng Nghymru.
Arweinydd y sioe oedd un o
gyflwynwyr Radio Cymru,
Frank Hennessy.
Trefnwyd y digwyddiad
i gydfynd ag Wythnos
Wirfoddoli Prydain
ac roedd yn ceisio
tynnu sylw at waith
y miloedd o
wirfoddolwyr sy'n
cyfrannu at
gymaint o agweddau
o fywyd yng Nghymru.
Roedd hefyd yn dathlu
cyfraniad CCGC i fyd gwirfoddoli
dros y trigain mlynedd diwethaf.
Dechreuodd trwy weithio gyda Dathliadau chlybion dynion cymoedd y de yn Jiwbili ystod dirwasgiad y tridegau ond Arglwydd Faer Caerdydd, Ricky mae'r maes wedi ei weddnewid ers hynny. Ormonde ac Arglwyddes Faeres Valerie Yn ogystal a chynnig adloniant difyr, roedd y Swinburne, yn mhlas y Maer - dyna'r safle sioe hefyd yn tynnu sylw at faint, dyfnder moethus ar gyfer dathliadau jiwbili CCCC ym ac ansawdd y "diwydiant" siopau Mawrth 1995. elusen yng Nghymru, sy'n codi Prif Weithredwr Cyngor Sir Morgannwg Canol, miliynau o bunnoedd bob Huw Thomas gyda Roger Jarman, ysgrifennydd y blwyddyn. Swyddfa Gymreig yn talu teyrnged i staff ac
aelodau pwyllgor. Cydnabyddwyd hefyd rol
nerth y sector wirfoddol yn y 90au. ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDO
Uchelbwyntiau'r \ Flwyddyn
94/ Ebrill Mike Palmer, Jf ♦ Y Comisiwn Elusennau'n cyhoeddi canllawiau swyddog Gogledd Cymru caeth ar ymgyrchu a gweithgareddau CGGC adeg Eisteddfod gwleidyddol o fewn elusennau. Genedlaethol Nedd a'r ♦ CGCC yn lansio Gwasanaethau Cynghori yng Cyffuniau. Gorffennaf Nghymru mewn ymgais i sefydlu strategaeth ariannu
♦ Deddf ar gyfer gwasanaethau cynghori. Mae hefyd yn Llywodraeth Leol (Cymru) yn cael y Fendith Frenhinol.
lobTo'r Senedd i gynnwys arian rhyng-gyfnodol ar ♦ Gweithgor dadreoli'r sector wirfoddoli yn cyhoeddi adroddiad
gyfer grwpiau yng Ngymru yn y mesur Llywodraeth wedi'i anelu at wneud bywyd yn haws i elusennau bach.
Leol (Cymru). ♦ Pobl anabl, gan gynnwys ymgyrchwyr o Gymru, yn lobi'o'r
♦ Y Mesur Hawliau Sifil (Personau Anabl) yn methu yn Nhy'r Senedd ar hawliau sifil.
Cyffredin ar ol cyflwyno nifer o newidiadau. ♦ CGGC yn trafod datganoli Amcan 3 Cronfa Gymdeithasol
♦ CGGC yn cynnal cyfarfodydd gyda gweinidog y Swyddfa Ewropeaidd i Gymru. Sicrhau 9% o arian sector wirfoddol
Gymreig, Gwilym Jones, yn dilyn toriad o 10% yn ei nawdd a Prydain.
fyddai'n effeithio ar gyllideb CGGC a'r Gronfa Wirfoddoli Awst yng Nghymru. ♦ Dau ar bymtheg o grwpiau gwirfoddol yn arddangos yn y Mai Pafiliwn Gweithredu Gwirfoddol yn Eisteddfod Glyn-nedd, a
♦ Cadeirydd CGGC, Marjorie Dykins, yn ymuno a thTm Make a drefnwyd gan CGGC a Chyngor Cymru i'r Anabl.
Difference sy'n cynnal arolwg o wirfoddoli ym Mhrydain. ♦ Penodi deuddeg o ymddiriedolwyr i Fwrdd Elusennau'r Loteri
♦ Cylchgrawn The Big Issue, a werthir gan y digartref ar gyfer y Cenedlaethol, gyda thri ohonynt o Gymru. CGGC yn
digartref, yn cael ei werthu ar strydoedd Caerdydd. rhybuddio fod posibilrwydd na fydd yr arian yn cyrraedd
♦ Oxfam Cymru'n anfon cymorth yn uniongyrchol i Rwanda Cymru hyd ddechrau 1996.
am y tro cyntaf gyda rhoddion pobl Cymru. ♦ CGGC yn lansio rhaglen hyfforddi genedlaethol ar gyfer Mehefin ymddiriedolwyr.
♦ CGGC yn lansio'i ddathliadau Medi
jiwbil/ diamwnt 1994 gyda "sioe ♦ CGGC yn lansio ffigyrau yn ei Gyfarfod Cyffredinol Blynyddol
ffasiynau elusennol" yn Neuadd Cyllido'r Dyfodol, yn dangos i'r sector wirfoddol yng Nghymru
y Ddinas, Caerdydd a golwg yn gynhyrchu incwm o bron i £600 miliwn ym 1992/93, gyda
ol ar y chwe deg o flynyddoedd dros ei hanneryn dod o roddion unigol. Cytuno ar
ers ei sefydlu ym 1934. newidiadau yn yr aelodaeth.
♦ CGGC yn cael ei orfodi i roi'r ♦ Y BBC yn cyhoeddi cynlluniau ar gyfer llinell gymorth 24 awr
gorau i'w gynlluniau i hyrwyddo newydd. Wythnos Gwirfoddolwyr Prydain ♦ Ymchwil gan y Sefydliad Cymorth i Elusennau (CAF) yn honni
Sioe fasiwn y jiwbili. yng Nghymru oherwydd mai yng Nghymru y mae'r nifer uchaf y bobl sy'n rhoi i toriadau ariannol. elusennau.
♦ Y Tywysog Philip yn ymuno a'r drafodaeth ar "elusennau" ♦ Ymgynghori ynghylch trosglwyddo arian BDCW i lywodraeth gan hawlio nad oes y fath beth a thlodi absoliwt ym leol.
Mhrydain bellach, gan ddileu'r angen am elusen yn yr ystyr draddodiadol. Hydref ♦ Y ♦ Adroddiad Swyddfa Gymreig yn cyhoeddi ei fod yn adnewyddu'r 10% gan Ganolfan Wirfoddoli Prydain yn haeru fod a oedd wedi'i dorri o gyllideb CGGC a'r Gronfa Wirfoddoli "gwirfoddoli am dal" yn cynyddu. yng Nghymru. CGGC yn hysbysebu am Swyddog Datblygu ♦ Camelot yn cael ei benodi i redeg y Loteri Cenedlaethol. Gwirfoddolwyr. Mae'n addo rhoi 25-30% o'r arian a dderbynnir i bump ♦ Tri 'achos da'. grwp Cymreig yn ennill cyfanswm o £44,376 o'r cynllun
Make a Difference. CHWE DEC MLYNE DD O LWYDDIANT
♦ CAF yn lansio'i Cerdyn Elusen ar gyfer rhoddion
treth-effeithiol.
♦ CGGC yn lansio'i brosiect aseswyr lleyg sy'n ceisio annog pobl
i wirfoddoli i fod yn aseswyr annibynnol gyda thimau'r
Swyddfa Gymreig i archwilio gwasanaethau cymdeithasol.
♦ Deddf Cyfiawnder Troseddol yn cyfyngu ar hawl pobl i
brotestio.
Tachwedd
♦ Prydain yng nghrafangau'r Loteri Cenedlaethol. CGGC yn
ymgyrchu i sicrhau fod cymaint a phosibl o'r arian yn
cyrraedd grwpiau Cymreig, ac yn annog pobl i barhau i roi'n
uniongyrchol i elusennau hefyd.
♦ CGGC yn cynnal diwrnod briffio yn Llandrindod ar y Loteri
Sioe fasiwn Cenedlaethol ar gyfer grwpiau gwirfoddol, gyda y jiwbili.
chynrychiolwyr o'r pum cronfa 'achos da'.
♦ Rhagfyr Mesur y Cynhalwyr (Cydnabyddiaeth a Gwasanaethau) i roi
♦ hawliau i Swyddog Datblygu'r laith Gymraeg CGGC yn sefydlu prosiect gynhalwyr yn llwyddo yn ei ail ddarlleniad gyda
i baratoi canllawiau ar gyfer y sector wirfoddol ar gynlluniau chefnogaeth y llywodraeth.
Cymraeg. Cychwyn ar y gwaith o ddewis pum grwp peilot i ♦ Dyddiad cau'r Swyddfa Gymreig ar dderbyn sylwadau ar yr
gychwyn ar y prosiect. argymhelliad i ddiddymu'r Rhaglen Gwasanaethau leuenctid
♦ Gwirfoddol, Neuaddau Pentref a Chanolfannau Cymuned. Yr Ysgrifennydd Gwladol, Michael Howard, fydd yn
penderfynu ar enillydd y ceisiadau am ddarparu Llinell ♦ 40 o fudiadau'n cael eu cymeradwyo i dderbyn dros £2 filiwn
Gymorth Genedlaethol i Wirfoddolwyr. o Gronfa Gymdeithasol Ewrop.
♦ Cynnal rownd ymgeisio gyntaf Amcan 3 Cronfa ♦ CGGC yn gwneud cais am arian o Gronfa'r Fileniwm ar gyfer
Gymdeithasol Ewropeaidd ar gyfer Cymru'n unig. neuaddau pentref Prydain, ac ar gyfer cyswllt fideo aml-
bwynt i Gymru.
♦ Y Ionawr Llywodraeth yn lansio rheoliadau cyfrifon at ddiben ymgynghori (Rhan IV y Ddeddf Elusennau), a'r Comisiwn ♦ Cymeradwyo rhaglenni ariannu Ewropeaidd Elusennau'n cyhoeddi arferion cymeradwy newydd (SORP II). ar gyfer ardaloedd gwledig Cymru ac ♦ Pobl anabl ledled y wlad - gan gynnwys Cynghrair De ardaloedd diwydiannol y de o'r diwedd
Morgannwg dros yr Anabl - yn protestio dros eu hawliau (blwyddyn yn hwyr).
wrth i ddau fesur dros yr anabl fynd gerbron y Senedd. ♦ Llinell gymorth gwirfoddoli Prydain i'w lleoli yn yr
Alban.
♦ Y Swyddfa Gymreig yn penderfynu torri cyllideb Cyngor Cefn
Gwlad Cymru o £3.3 miliwn ym 1995/96 - gan arwain i
rybuddion y gallai hyn olygu llai o grantiau ar gyfer grwpiau
amgylcheddol gwirfoddol.
♦ Mwy o brotestiadau lleol yn erbyn allforio lloi.
Chwefror
♦ Compassion in World Farming yn trefnu protestiadau ym
mis Chwefror.
♦ Bwrdd Elusennau'r Loteri Cenedlaethol yn lansio'i
gynlluniau drafft ar gyfer dosbarthu arian i elusennau, a
Chymru'n cychwyn ar ei seminarau rhanbarthol gyda
grwpiau gwirfoddol.
Mawrth
♦ Rheoliadau ar godi arian yn dod i rym o dan Ran II y
Ddeddf Elusennau. Gweithwyr codi arian proffesiynol
a chyfranogwyr masnachol. Mae tim Make a Difference yn ane/u at i 9"frfo ddo„arymap ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL CCCC 19 9 4 - 1995
Cyfrif incwm a gwariant ar Cyfrifon gyfer y flwyddyn yn diweddu 31 Mawrth 1995
Y fantolen ar 31 Mawrth 1995
1994 1995 1994 1995
Incwm Asedau sefydlog Crantiau at ddibenion Asedau sylweddol cyffredinol Eiddo rhydd-ddaliad 340,000 340,000 1 Y 364,728 378,532 Cerbydau 7,469 3,469 Swyddfa Cymreig Sefydliad Cymorth i Elusennau 48,832 48,344 347,469 353,469 Cronfa Gymdeithasol Ewrop - Cyflogaeth 7,000 9,345
Asedau cyfredol Sefydliad Allen Lane 1,000 Buddsoddiadau 120,652 Ymddiriedolaeth Carnegie 2,500 Sefydliad Gulbenkian 5,000 Dyledwyr a rhagdaiiadau 37,327 - (Lisbon) Arian parod yn y banc 232,898
122 428,060 437,221 Arian parod mewn llaw
390,999 294,840 Grantiau at ddibenion penodol Credydwyr Y Swyddfa Gymreig
Symiau dyledus o fewn - Grant tuag at y Gymraeg 21,972 4,750 blwyddyn 242,361 165,937 Wythnos Wirfoddolwyr 4,786 Asedau 148,638 128,903 cyfredol net Morgannwg Ganol TEC Hyfforddiant 3,323 Asedau llai rhwymedigaethau 482,372 cyfredol 496,107 25,295 9,536
Credydwyr Incwm arall Symiau dyledus ar ol mwy na Gwariant a adenillwyd ac blwyddyn 3,982 incwm amrywiol 131,217 108,252 Darpariaeth ar gyfer Incwm buddsoddi ac rhwymedigaethau 75,000 65,000 o'r banc (gros) 22,197 21,331 421,107 413,390 Tanysgrifiadau a chyfraniadau 6,087 5,432
159,501 135,015 Cronfeydd Cronfa Wirfoddoli yng Nghymru 226,501 221,000 Cyllid cronedig 198,605 190,888 Incwm Cronfeydd adbrisio 222,502 222,502 gweithredol 839,357 802,772
421,107 413,390
Incwm - Ffynhonnell yr arian
1994 Tanysgrifiadau a chyfraniadau 0.6% 1995 Grantiau eraill at ddibenion cyffredinol 1.2% Tanysgrifiadau a chyfraniadau 0.7% Grantiau eraill at ddibenion Grantiau at ddibenion penodol 1.2% cyffredinol 0.9%
Incwm buddsoddi ac o'r banc 2.6% _ Incwm buddsoddi ac o'r banc 2.6%
Grantiau at ddibenion penodol 3.8% Sefyliad Cymorth i Elusennau 6% Sefyliad Cymorth i Elusennau 6%
Gwariant a adenillwyd a ffynonellau amrywiol 13.5% Gwariant a adenillwyd a ffynonellau amrywiol 15.6%
Gwirfoddoli yng Nghymru 27.5% Gwirfoddoli yng Nghymru 27%
Grant y Swyddfa Gymreig 47% Grant y Swyddfa Gymreig 43% CHWE DEC ML VNE DD O LWYDDIANT
Cyfrif incwm a gwariant ar Gwariant - gyfer y flwyddyn yn diweddu Lie mae'r arian yn mynd
31 Mawrth 1995 Cwarged gweithredol Asedau sefydlog
♦ ^ / 1995 1994 0.1% 0.9% 1.2% 0.3%
Incwm gweithredol, Costau gweinyddol Adeiladau a ddygwyd ymlaen 839,357 802,772
Gwariant Costau gweinyddol ♦ ♦ 5.4% Cyflogau a chostau staff 366,357 343,839 4.3%
Hyfforddiant staff 7,792 4,947
Teithio a chynhaliaeth 30,498 24,765 Costau staff
Lesio a chynnal a chadw offer 9,493 14,375 18.2% 24.2% Yswiriant 1,327 998
Gwirfoddoli Argraffu, pa pur a yng Nghymru deunyddiau 20,159 19,333
Post a ffon 29,598 29,779
Cyhoeddiadau a hysbysebu 25,499 19,372
Cynadleddau, cyfarfodydd a chyrsiau hyfforddi 34,248 34,900
Treuliau amrywiol 2,360 1,384
Tal i archwilwyr cyfrifon 3,600 3,500 Costau cyfrifiadurol 13,106 4,848
Costau ymgynghorwyr 16,971 15,594
Car - dibrisiant a 27.5% 27.2% 46.6% 43.9% cholled 6,000 6,500
Costau cyfieithu - 4,318 Polisiau cadw Costau'r banc 1,417 729 cyfrifon • Darparwyd y cyfrifon o dan y confensiwn costau hanesyddol wedi
568,425 529,191 newidiadau yn sgil ad-brisio Eiddo Rhydd-ddaliad.
• Cynhwysir Hog y banc fel incwm cronedig. Cynhwysir y
cyfraniadau pan y'u derbynir. Cynhwysir grantiau yn y flwyddyn Costau adeiladau briodol. Rhenti a threthi 13,709 13,611 • Ni wnaed cyfrif am stociau o gyhoeddiadau neu bapur. Yswiriant 1,327 997 • Codir ar raddfa o 33% o gost y car am ddibrisiant. Colau a gwres 7,268 10,134 • Codir am gostau rhentu dan gytundebau lesio yn y Cyfrif Elw a Clanhau a chynnal a chadw 3,364 3,008 Cholled am y flwyddyn briodol. Darpariaeth at gynnal Mae set gyflawn o'r adroddiadau a'r cyfrifon ar gael gan: yr 10,000 15,000 adeilad Mr D Morris, Ysgrifennydd y Cwmni, CGGC, 35,668 42,750 Llys Ifor, Heol Crescent, Caerffili,
Gwariant ar asedau Morgannwg Ganol CF8 1XL ffon 01222 869224. sefydlog At aelodau Cyngor Gweithredu Gwirfoddol Gymru Celfi a chyfarpar swyddfa 2,946 8,888 Ym mam archwilwyr y cyfrifon, Zeidman & Davis, mae'r crynodeb o'r cyfrifon yn y ddogfen hon yn gyson a'r cyfrifon llawn am yr un Gwirfoddoli yng flwyddyn. Nghymru 226,501 221,000 Roedd adroddiad yr archwilwyr ar y cyfrifon llawn yn ddiamod. Cyfanswm gwariant 833,540 801,829
Gwarged gweithredol 5,817 943
Cwarged ar werthu asedau 1,900
7,717 943 Zeidman & Davis
Cyfrifwyr Ardystiedig Archwilwyr Cyfrifon Cofrestredig Ty Lawrence Caerffili
Morgannwg Ganol ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL CGGC 19 9 4 - 1995
FFRAMWAITH Y PWYLLGOR
Pwyllgor Gweithredol Cadeirydd: Marjorie Dykins 1
Pwyllgor Ewropeaidd Pwyllgor CSE Pwyllgor y Gronfa Wirfoddoli Cadeirvdd: Svr Donald Walte Cadeirydd: Hywel Evans yng Nghymru tan fis Chwfror 1995 Cadeirydd: Alistair Wood
Pwyllgor Cyllid ac Pwyllgor Cyngor Polisi NEWPOL Amcanion Cyffredinol (De a Dwyrain) Pwyllgor Cyngor Polisi (Gogledd a Gorllewin) Cadeirydd: W P Kitson Cadeirydd: Yr Athro Maurice Broady Cadeirydd: Alistair Wood
Pwyllgor Gweithredol Staff y Cyngor
Llywydd Mawrth 1994/95 larll Lisburne Cyfarwyddwr Graham Benfield Trysorydd Mygedol Cynorthwydd Personol i'r Cyfarwyddwr Jan Bish Mr W P Kitson Ysgrifennydd y Cwmni / Swyddog Cyllid Douglas Morris Cyfreithwyr Mygedol Cynorthwy-ydd Cyllid Vida Davies Messrs Phillips & Buck Rheolwraig Gwybodaeth ac Ymchwil Lynda Garfield Cadeirydd Cynorthwy-ydd Gwybodaeth Eilir Daniel Mrs Marjorie Dykins
Is-Gadeirydd Swyddog y Wasg a Chyhoeddiadau Penny Taylor Michael Palmer
Ms Jane Hutt Swyddog Hyfforddi a Chynadleddau Ruth Marks
Swyddog Datblygu Cenedlaethol Peter Bryant Dr N Ahmad
Mrs Pat Bowen Swyddog Polisi Lindsey Williams
Yr Athro Maurice Broady Swyddog Polisi wedi'i secondio o lonawr - Mawrth 1995) Simon Boex Lt Col David Cox, CVO, MBE
Mrs Ceinwen Davies Swyddog Datblygu Gwirfoddolwyr
Ms Annmarie Dixon-Barrow (o fis lonawr 1995) Sue Pickavance
Mr John Ashton Edwards, OBE Swyddog Cyngor Cyllido Margaret Bond Sue Thomas Mr Stuart Etherington Gweinyddydd y Gronfa Stan Salter
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