A plea to boost numbers for Begelly Kilgetty Community Association has proved positive.

Cllr Quigley told members of the Community Council recently that the Association had lost a number of volunteers and would struggle to continue unless more help came forward.

“So, we emailed all the groups that use the hall and put a post on Facebook saying that the community centre ‘may close’ if we don’t get more volunteers and had a brilliant response with 18 new people attending our January meeting and we will be delighted if any of them attend our next meeting,” Cllr Quigley told fellow members at the recent Community Council meeting.

“We now have already agreed to do the following this year - two litter picks in Kilgetty and Begelly, in March/April and September; help with the Summer Fete on Sunday, August 24.”

A Christmas Family Event is also in the pipeline.

“One of the new people have offered to help with a Monthly Newsletter to try to reach those that are not on Facebook to be distributed in local businesses,” continued Cllr Quigley.

“When we put the post on Facebook asking for volunteers to help and residents of Kilgetty and Begelly to attend the monthly meetings including the youths of the village but unfortunately, we did not see any youths, but we all agreed we will keep trying to get their views on what they want the association to do for them.

“One idea was to put a basketball court on the fields near the playground for the older children/youths to use, one of the new volunteers has experience to writing grant applications and offered to look into this for us.

“So, things are looking for a lot better for the Association and I think we can do so much more going forward,” added Cllr Quigley.