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Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs

Project Manager - Bethan Pocock
Bridge House
Station Road
Llanishen
Cardiff
CF14 5UW

T: 02920 741000
F: 02920 741047

Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, a registered charity and company limited by guarantee, helps communities across Wales by promoting, developing and supporting quality, affordable, accessible out of school childcare clubs. Since its launch in October 2001, the organisation has helped to increase the number of childcare clubs in Wales to around 1200. These clubs provide more than 28,000 childcare places and employ more than 2,500 people in local communities. The organisation works with the Welsh Assembly Government, the Big Lottery and other funding bodies, together with Local Authorities and communities across Wales.

With its main office in Cardiff, covering SE Wales, Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids' Clubs also has regional offices in Swansea covering West Wales, and Colwyn Bay covering North Wales and Powys. The organisation is lead by Director Wendy Hawkins with a staff of around 50 made up of half-time Development Officers covering each local authority, part-time support workers, funding team, training team and administrative support including IT. The childcare sector is worth around £1m per week in Wales but there is still a shortfall in childcare places; there is a need to develop strong entrepreneurship culture in childcare.

The purpose of Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids' Clubs’ work in CWLWM is to support individual and third sector start-ups. Increased availability will increase accessibility, enable more people to become economically active and attract more start-ups in the sector. Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids' Clubs is therefore seeking to produce through CWLWM a toolkit to develop its work in supporting the setting up of new childcare settings as well as supporting those existing childcare settings experiencing issues relating to management and sustainability.

It has long been recognised that within the childcare sector there is a lack of understanding that the provision of ‘paid for’ childcare is a business activity, dealing with such issues as employment and financial management.

The toolkit, will be promoted as a ‘Business Toolkit’ for the childcare sector as a whole. An additional aspect of the project will be to target business advisors to ensure they have an understanding of the specific needs of the sector in relation to Business Start–up. The project will therefore include an element of marketing and training regarding the end product.

Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids' Clubs’ CWLWM work will result in:

• A Business Toolkit for the childcare sector.
• A programme of awareness sessions for Business Advisors.
• A report on the findings of the piloting with statistics of groups taking part and information they provide (re what support they need, difficulties they have faced, etc).

For further information about the Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs click here to visit their website.