The Club is trying to develop alternative fund-raising techniques in an attempt to compensate for the loss of Tafarn Y Cledlyn (see below). These include the Easyfundraising and PhoneCoop Partnership schemes, the Playground Equipment Sponsorship scheme and the Club Sponsors page in this website. We would encourage you to take a look at these links and help us if you possibly can. Please use the email link below if you would like more information.

Our Big Fundraising Handicap

Clwb Cledlyn Club started life in Tafarn Y Cledlyn, our village pub, when a number of villagers discussing the dearth of recreational facilities for local children and the dangers they faced playing along the busy main road through Drefach, agreed to form a group to try to remedy the situation. For nearly 4 years, Tafarn Y Cledlyn provided the venue for not only its Management Committee meetings, but also its many and varied indoor fund-raising events.

On 1st January 2005, the pub closed and was sold 6 months later to a property development company, which promptly boarded up its windows, made a half-hearted and predictably unsuccessful attempt to find tenants, waited 2 years and then submitted a planning application to convert the property into 3 mews properties.

The planning application was vigorously opposed by local residents and Clwb Cledlyn was one of several local organisations which wrote to object. Clwb Cledlyn's letter sets out the importance of Tafarn Y Cledlyn to the local community in general and Clwb Cledlyn in particular. The planning application was refused by the Local Planning Authority in February 2008 - a decision which was upheld by the Inspector at the subsequent Appeal Hearing in August 2008.

To date there has been no subsequent news regarding the owners' intentions. It is currently still available for sale with Morgan & Davies Estate Agents in Lampeter (property details). As indicated in our letter of objection, we believe that, although the property is in need of renovation and repair, it has considerable potential as a public house/restaurant and that in the hands of someone with vision and commitment it can be returned to the popular and busy village pub that it used to be.