FoodShare Pantry Llantwit Major Proudly Accepts Ystadau Cymru Award

The team at FoodShare Pantry Llantwit Major were delighted to be awarded with the Ystadau Cymru Award for 2023, on behalf of the Llantwit Food Project. The award celebrates successful collaborative asset management in the Welsh public sector.   

Rebecca Evans MS, who presented the award said, ‘I have had the pleasure of taking awards to a wide variety of collaborative projects from across Wales, each focused on the public estate. Many, such as the Llantwit Food Project, have demonstrated the way that communities and public sector partners, working together, can innovate to solve local problems and have a significant and wide-ranging benefit for our communities.’.  

Rachel Connor, GVS Chief Executive Officer, received the award on behalf of the team, said, “It is an amazing project that has been invaluable to the community.  Each week FoodShare supports on average 65 households to access good, affordable food, whilst helping to tackle food waste, but equally there is an incredible social and community belonging aspect of the project that is very special.  It was a huge honour to win this award and bring it back to the team.”  

The FoodShare Pantry in Llantwit Major runs from the CF61 centre every Thursday between 12 and 2pm and last month launched a second pantry in St Athan at The Gathering Place, running every other Wednesday from 11.30-1pm.  For £5 customers are able to choose a selection of items, including chilled, frozen, ambient and fresh produce as well as bakery items.  

Glamorgan Voluntary Services (GVS), Tel: 01446 741706, E-mail: enquiries@gvs.wales, Website: www.gvs.wales  Registered Charity No. 1163193