CASE STUDY ASSET TRANSFER

Canolfan Y Fron , North

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In 2014 following a village meeting Planning permission was successful in and vote it was decided that the June 2016 and the group were Canolfan Y Fron Committee would awarded £946,851 from the lottery the proceed with their Plan. following November. With a further They put together a business plan for £195,000 from the Welsh retaining the school building and Government’s Community Facilities sports field for community use with the Programme awarded in June 2017. school building as a Village Community Centre. They felt they The plans are to; needed an income generating activity to build up financial reserves for  Renovate closed village school capital expenditure and act as a building to become a community financial safety net. hub On 5th May 2015 Gwynedd Council Y FRON Development Group offered the village a lease on the Y Fron, Gwynedd, , school building. However, the offer LL54 7BB came with the strict condition that the [email protected] funding must come from the current www.facebook.com/Canolfan-Y- Fron round of the Big Lottery Fund. CASE STUDY ASSET TRANSFER Canolfan Y Fron Gwynedd,

 Regenerate the village and local area

 Restore lost services •Cafe •Shop •Community rooms •Treatment Room •Changing rooms

 18 Bed bunkhouse  Need to manage internal

communications Lessons Learned:  Workload keeps growing

 Lots and lots of friends out there  It is essential to keep the  Opposition has made us more community on board. thorough and resilient  Funding streams can conflict

 Old buildings consume contingency allocations

 Old buildings add programme time

 Contractors and lead professionals have their own agendas and tastes

 Professionals will not always listen Y FRON Development Group to client’s local knowledge and/or Y Fron, Gwynedd, United Kingdom, opinions LL54 7BB  You must be tough [email protected] www.facebook.com/Canolfan-Y-  Need a good team especially a Fron detail person