Tŷ'r Gwrhyd is a Canolfan Gymraeg (Welsh-language Centre) in Pontardawe and is a partnership between Swansea University’s Academi Hywel Teifi and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. The project has received a grant of £300,000 from the Welsh Government through the Bwrw Mlaen Capital Investment Grant 2015-16 to modify the centre and to purchase resources for the project. 

Menter Iaith Castell-nedd Port Talbot have an office on the 1st floor of Tŷ’r Gwrhyd and they use the centre to support their projects to promote the use of Welsh in the area. Welsh-language societies and businesses are able to hire meeting rooms and both short and long term office space. At the moment Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Merched y Wawr and Learn Welsh Swansea Bay Region work from the Centre. 

The centre hosts a weekly Reading Club for primary aged schoolchildren; two youths club; and a Book Club for adults and a host of activities and events to support the community to use their Welsh-language skills and access events in Welsh. Daily Welsh language classes for adult learners are hosted at the centre and a Welsh-language books and educational resources shop is also located at the centre.

Cered is the name for Ceredigion’s Welsh Language development initiative or Menter Iaith. As part of Ceredigion County Council’s Schools and Culture Service we provide activities, information, advice and leadership in order to maintain and develop the use of Cymraeg as a vibrant community language in Ceredigion. 

Established in 1999, Cered’s officers have successfully developed an exceptionally wide range of projects, events and activities that have attempted to promote Cymraeg as a living language in Ceredigion. 

Whereas most Mentrau Iaith are independent organisations, Cered is one of three local authority run Mentrau Iaith. This means that Cered’s staff are central to the language planning work done by Ceredigion County Council and they work closely with officers across the authority.

Campaigning for the Welsh language and the communities of Wales since 1962.