Maesgwyn – Wind Farm Rules
Community Benefits
The Maesgwyn project has a £4.375m lifetime community benefit to be distributed at £175,000 per annum.
The fund is secured by a Section 106. The monies are paid directly to and administered by NPT CBC with some input from PW. The benefit is available for qualifying projects in the communities of Banwen, Onllwyn and Glynneath. Monies not spent in any year are rolled up within the company and ring fenced for future spend. All applications are made directly to NPT CBC.
A very large number of projects have been supported to date and these are collated in the appended table.
Some examples are given below for Onllwyn only from NPT CBC tabular record.
Ref. No: 001
Organisation: Banwen & District Pony Club
Project Activity: Ménage
Amount Requested: £19,700
Ref. No: 009
Organisation: Banwen RFC
Project Activity: Pitch drainage scheme
Amount Requested: £18,850
Ref. No: 016
Organisation: Onllwyn Community Council
Project Activity: Skate Park
Amount Requested: £26,850.00
Ref. No: 023
Organisation: Age Connect NPT
Project Activity: Outreach Development Worker
Amount Requested: £14,578.49
Ref. No: 024
Organisation: Onllwyn Community Council
Project Activity: Refurbishment of Pantyffordd Play Area
Amount Requested: £28,211.00
Ref. No: 027
Organisation: Onllwyn Community Council
Project Activity: Conversion of tennis courts into a MUGA
Amount Requested: £25,523.40
Ref. No: 029
Organisation: Banwen RFC
Project Activity: Convert ATP to a 3G
Amount Requested: £29,655.56
Ref. No: 042
Organisation: Age Connects NPT
Project Activity: Counselling, welfare and health advice through Outreach Officers
Amount Requested: £29,658.67 (over 2 years)
Ref. No: 048
Organisation: DOVE Workshop
Project Activity: Media hub
Amount Requested: £21,924.14
Ref. No: 049
Organisation: Banwen RFC
Project Activity: Funding to purchase new tractor and equipment
Amount Requested: £14,810.00
Ref. No: 050
Organisation: Onllwyn Community Council
Project Activity: Working with Nature project – development of the wooded area near the pond and DOVE area
Amount Requested: £11,288.32
Maes Gwyn Community Benefit Fund – Performance in Glynneath and Onllwyn in the last year –
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