
Welcome to my online diary, enjoy your stay!
In November 2005 whilst home recovering from an operation I decided to try and design a web page for White Springs Fisheries in Pontarddulais I added an info page on the fishery website page, but as I got more and more involved in community projects, I decided to start this blog in order to keep my community activities and involvement seperate to the fishing. You can email me with comments at slloydjanes@aol.com
Info about me
I am involved in the Llanelli CAB
I am the current secretary of the Hendy Pool and Parks Committee
I am also a member of the Pontarddulais and Hendy District Carnival Committee. Which will be celebrating its 40th year this year.
I have been a member of USDAW since 1989 and I am the Llanelli Usdaw Union Branch Secretary, I have done a lot of campaigning with Usdaw and I often appear in the quarterly magazine that gets published and sent to Usdaw Members, here's just one example
I have also been Hendy community councillor on Llanedi Community Council since 2004 and as a councillor, I also represent the council as a member of the Hendy School Govenoring Body.
The contents of this site is written and published by Stephen Lloyd-Janes of Iscoed Road Hendy who will be a Labour and Co-op candidate for the local County Council elections on May 1st 2008
Today myself and Vernon attended a grant seminar with Carmarthen County Council, we arrived in Tycroes at 5.30pm and we got home at 9.50pm
It was the first one we both attended, it was very usefull and interesting, there was a presentation by the local fire service highlighting the new structures that are proposed and the threat to full time jobs and services at the Ammanford station, then there was a presentation and explanation about the new NHS dentist practice that the local health board are opening and how to get into the practise,
Amman Valley Enterprise who are helping Hendy Pool themn invite three community groups to talk asbout their sucessfull grant applications and three groups spoke about their journey to find funding and what that funding has done to help their project
Then we did two workshops one on community groups in our villages or communities that haven't approached Amman Valley about help and the other was about Switch which is the organisation that works with the Assembly and local Councils to plan 25 years ahead about traffic and transport issues and long term solutions
And finally Hidden Dragon a funding organisation gave a presentation on how to apply for grants, the next meeting is in October.