News

• Interviews

by the end of the Pilot Project, Autumn 2004,

• Approx. 180 hours (144 mini-discs) recorded; 91 persons interviewed; all of the discs summarized.
  
  
• Over 200 photographs borrowed and scanned before returning to owners.
  
  

• Assistance from community groups : Some of the Young Farmers' Clubs and Women's Institutes in Carmarthenshire have been assisting with recording.
  
  • Training Courses held to enable Y.F.C.’s and W.I’s to participate in project (See photograph, top right).
    
    
• Publicity : Pamphlets produced and circulated; contacts made with organizations and contributions to newsletters (e.g. Y.F.C.’s, F.U.W., N.F.U. Wales; W.I.) and all of Carmarthenshire’s ‘Papurau Bro’ (Welsh Language Newspapers); Exhibition created – shown at Carmarthenshire W.I. annual meeting (See photographs on right).
  
  
• Meetings : Monthly VoA committee meetings; Quarterly Progress Reports to Asiantaeth Iaith Welsh Language Agency; Meetings with farming organizations and potential funders to promote and discuss expansion of project.