Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Brexit Minister (in respect of his Brexit Minister responsibilities) – in the Senedd at 2:23 pm on 8 May 2019.
The Senghenydd Youth Drop In Centre in my constituency has applied for a piece of that funding. I’ve made the Minister aware of it through written communication. SYDIC is a community-based enterprise that runs a drop-in for young people in the Senghenydd area and is incredibly valuable in my constituency. They’ve currently got land for a green energy project and have planning permission to develop a wind turbine on the land. They found it difficult to proceed, and were denied the ability to proceed, with a WEFO funding grant for that community wind turbine because of the rather rigid criteria that we have for those kinds of applications. I know the Minister, and I fully appreciate that the Minister, can’t make any specific comments about individual applications, but, with this experience in mind, would he commit to considering how we can learn from the SYDIC experience in order to make community-based green applications more successful with WEFO in future?