The document summarizes a community meeting held on January 30, 2014 in Beaumaris, Wales to discuss priorities and needs in the Seiriol ward area. Meeting attendees provided input on priorities like supporting older residents, day care services, and meals programs. They also discussed how the local council and community groups could help support these priorities through sharing information, celebrating community assets, recruiting volunteers, and coordinating existing resources. Concerns were raised about ensuring the needs of all age groups and areas are represented in the planning process.

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Community Reference Group Event, 30 January 2014, Beaumaris School
For more information on this project please contact:
Luned Edwards, Swyddog Prosiectau Iechyd a Lles, Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn
E: LunedGEdwards@ynysmon.gov.uk F: 01248 752814
Lyndsey Campbell-Williams, Lleisiau Lleol, Medrwn Môn
E: Lyndsey@medrwnmon.org F: 01248 724944
Event co-design & facilitation by Pam Luckock & Fran O’hara, ‘Working With Not To’ Co-Production
Project www.workingwithnotto.com. Visual facilitation by the Scarlet Design team: www.franohara.com

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Q1: What are your priorities for Seiriol ward?
C1: Beth yw eich blaenoriaethau i ardal Seiriol?
Q2: How can Anglesey C.C and L.S.B support you to achieve
these priorities?
C2: Sut y gall Cyngor Sir Ynys Mon a’r Bwrdd Gwasanaeth Lleol
eich cefnogi i gyflawni’r blaenoriaethau hyn?
TABLE SHEET 1
• Help with old age services
• Cover threat of loss of care workers
• Take notice of peoples interest and voice
• Sharing good action
o Food bank
o Meals on Wheels
• Old age
• Day care
• Cuts to care workers
• Assets
o Meals on Wheels
• Food banks
o £4.95 dinner & pudding
• Charity giving
• Sharing good practice
• Intergenerational
o Culture
o Language
• Future prospects for generations
• Celebrate value
• Help the age
• Would be good to hold similar meetings in the village halls of
Seiriol area

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• Ysgol Beaumaris not a good place to hold the meeting. Quite a
hill for people to climb.
• Communication – Information - Network
• Highlight good practice – celebrate it – share it – value it
• That the word ‘community’ is central to all that is planned or
aspired to. We are what we are with other people.
• Creation of forums for people to express feelings.
• Process of subsidiary. Local decisions made by local people.
• Good evening. Microphone might have helped. Some
interesting ideas. Room was rather cold.
TABLE SHEET 2
• Help with old age services
• Closure of Heulfre?
• Centralise facilities
o Daycare
o Meals on Wheels
• Older people care
o Social/ inclusion networks
o Day care
o Remain independent as long as possible
• Meals on Wheels
• Employment
• Enough ‘goodwill’ & willing to act to take over services. Older
people taking over ‘facilities’ – new opportunities for others to
get involved
• Support with actions not just words
• How many can we realistically support?
o Expecting communities to take over more and more
activities & services.
• Greater awareness of what is available in communities
o Sharing information, avoiding duplication
• Burden on small number of volunteers

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o How do we recruit new members?
o Upskilling, time, resources
• Fragmented
o Requires coordination
• Celebrate differences to increase inclusion
• Single point of contact
o Taking too long to come into being
• Available for locals
o LSB/CC helping to integrate tourism resources
• Signposting & training
• LSB/CC – what is their duty – what do they have to do?
• Stop referencing who’s doing it & start with how
o Stop talking and start doing
• How to be a correctly governed group
o Mentoring – good practice
o Projects sharing experiences
• What’s going on around us?
o What’s lacking?
• Medrwn Mon expertise – setting up social enterprises etc.
TABLE SHEET 3
• Glad I came
• Feedback from this meeting is important – and other events!
• Prentisaeth Apprenticeship
• Services for older people e.g. Meals on Wheels
• Not enough work places in Seiriol ward to take young people –
would therefore be keeping them in local area
• Peer mentoring sharing ideas and experiences from C.C & Vol.
expertise: finance, legal, admin
• Keeping young people in the community
• Joining in with community activity, groups, committees
o Understanding why it’s important

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• Feeling positive
• Willing volunteers with community
• Funding shared fairly between all villages and towns
• Look at other ways of doing thing e.g. meals on Wheels has
stopped – Hotel? – cooking groups?
o C.C. to support this new process, encourage, promote
• Meals on Wheels referrals –
o Venue
o Money
o Llangoed
o Community Facebook
• Clarity on who to talk to & makes decisions
• Grants & funding information
• Concessions on fees such as planning application
• Asset Transfer
• Document including an ‘asset map’ of C.C resources –
community can use this
• Community leaders – communication
o Workers
o People
o Professionals
o Councilors
• Monies where from and who gets share over area – grant
transport around area by who
• Information back when support by outsiders. New blood instead
of old hands.
TABLE SHEET 4
• Good to meet new people.
• Enjoyed talking to interesting people. Thank you.
• Place, people, networks, services
• Village halls – lots of potential to use them ore
o Especially Llangoed

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o Fix the ceiling!
• What about films?
• Use fliers to advertise events.
• Don’t reinvent the wheel
• Good turn scheme – example from Benllech – community
transport – volunteer drivers
• Got to ask! If it’s a good project and clear ideas then help is
available.
• Value difference in the community
o Different cultures have different ways of looking at things
• Pantri Pobol – including fresh food & meals
o Meal clubs
o Food banks
• Locally produced food
o More allotments?
• Meals on Wheels & luncheon club for Llangoed
o Venue please
o Maybe Pont y Brenin community centre?
o Canolfan in Beaumaris?
o Try the school
o Kitchen needed
• Make the most of our assets
o Village hall
• Ask people & places what they do well – can learn
• Communication – improve
o Newsletters
• Matching up projects for joint applications
• Expertise for guidance on the law
• Hope to link with other areas sharing info
• For assistance for voluntary groups contact Medrwn Mon Tel:
724944
• The evening
o Different

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o Interesting
o Even entertaining
o Bubbly with good presentations
o A chance to meet & chat
o A good nosh too!
o
TABLE SHEET 5
• No access on buses, shops for disabled wheelchair users
• Keep Beaumaris school open!!
• Day care centre being closed is the detriment of the aged!!
• Better introduction methods
• More interaction
• Fewer speeches!
• Who was who - exercise in finding out who was who
• Great evening networking, met some really interesting people
• Thank you!
• Older people services
o Meals on Wheels
o Get together in the community
o Transport
• Assets
o Networks
o Place
o People
o Services
• Volunteers cooking
• Place
• People
• Networks
• Community newsletter
• Services
• Cadw siopau lleol i bobl ifanc.

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• Meals on wheels
o Availability
o Where cooked
o Social services referrals
o Help with grants
o Volunteers
• Ethnic isolation
• People looking after each other in the community, or not!
• Gwrando mwy
• Busnesu mwy
• No major industry
• No big employers on the island
• Totally reliant on tourism
o And old people i.e. retired
• Way too big subject for 4 hours! We needed awayday or
brainstorming session! Who was everybody in the room?
• Assets
o Beaumaris community spirit
o Meeting rooms
o Great school
o Play area
o
TABLE SHEET 6
• Tap into people who are experts in the field of ‘care’
• Beaumaris is well catered for – surrounding area is in need of
services/activities consultation
• Sustainability
• Listen & continue to work with the community
• Need to find more people to help with existing projects
• Consultation – but need to listen and take on board what
people are saying! Re:care of the elderly
• Co-production to go to every youth club and primary school to
listen to children and young people

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• How will info from this event be cascaded to the rest of the
community?
• Time banking is NOT the answer
o What is then?
o Doing it because you want to! Not because you’re told to!
o Waffling
o Plus having support to do it
o Zzzz………
• Are we going to look hear and listen to what children and young
people want/would like in their community?
• Sharing communication
• Mental health
• Why build and extension when there are community centres in
the community struggling to keep open
• Rural
• Representation of all ages/all areas of the ward
• Was evening right? Held same night as youth club.
• I,I,I,I  We, We, We, We
o Jargon
• Can’t always get what we want. People need to take ownership.