Wales YFC News

The Lionel J Hill MBE NFYFC Club Charity Cup was this year awarded to Ystradfellte YFC from Brecknock for raising £19,910.20 – which equated to £765.78 per member.

Club Chair Chloe Smith collected the trophy on behalf of the club and said she was “proud” of all the members for raising such a large sum of money.

“YFC is very important to our community. We try to raise money for charities that have helped our community. We do raise quite a large sum for those charities that mean something to us,” said Chloe about the tractor run the club held to raise funds for the Great Ormond Street hospital (GOSH) in support of a members’ niece with a life limiting condition.

As well as GOSH, Ystradfellte YFC have also donated £1,000 to Guts UK and smaller amounts to 3 food banks, Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital Charity (the Children’s Hospital for Wales) and Tŷ Hafan (the children’s hospice in Wales).

Over the last year Ystradfellte YFC was also privileged to represent Wales having been shortlisted in the British Farming Awards Young Farmers Club of the Year.  This was in recognition of our community work and fundraising and resulted in a trip to Cannon Hall Farm for the awards ceremony and appearances on S4C and ITV Wales.

It was wonderful to see this recognition from NFYFC to round off the year.