Our eisteddfodau are crucial in strengthening and safeguarding our language and culture. As a young boy, the summer weeks were full of travelling across west Wales taking part in local eisteddfodau, reciting poems on the stage, and on occasion, I'd win a cup or two. When the 2020 Eisteddfod was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first time that the Eisteddfod hadn't been held since 1914, when the event had to be cancelled in response to the start of the first world war. But now we welcome the National Eisteddfod back in Tregaron at the end of July, after the success of the Urdd Eisteddfod in Denbigh back in May.