The Llanymynech Heritage Partnership, to which we belong, came out top in the prestigious Waterways Renaissance Awards in the Community category sponsored by DEFRA. The award is given annually to recognise the best examples of regeneration along the nation’s waterways. The Llanymynech Heritage Area was cited as an outstanding bottom-up project.

The photograph shows the presentation of the award at a ceremony held on 21^st March at the Imperial War Museum, Manchester, by Roger Hanbury, Chief Executive (far left) and John Craven OBE (far right), Vice President of the Waterways Trust, to (from left to right) Cllr. Dilys Gaskill, Stephen Lees, John Martin, and Vivienne Byrne, representing the Llanymynech Heritage Partnership,

Thanks to John’s hard work we have obtained a grant of £10,000 from Spirit 2 Ysbryd, to which we have to provide match funding to the same value in cash and kind (ie, we only receive an amount each quarter equal to our match funding).

This funding has been used to employ the services of Resources for Change who are helping us to refine our business plan, identify sources of finance, target possible sponsors and so on.

Already we have had a successful workshop at which all our ideas were crystallised and formalised.