News Archive

28/03/2025 - 15:48
We will open a new front in our housing campaign at a "Nid yw Cymru ar Werth" (Wales is not for sale) rally in Nefyn this weekend. Hundreds are expected to march through the small Gwynedd town at 1.30pm Saturday (29/3) to a rally in the town centre followed by a public meeting where community enterprise Antur Aelhaearn will be launching its Community-led Housing Project.
17/03/2025 - 19:05
A rally held in Nefyn, Gwynedd, at the end of the month will add to the pressure on the Welsh Government to take urgent and serious action on the important recommendations of the Commission for Welsh-speaking Communities, in order to ensure there is time to act before the end of the current Senedd term. On behalf of Cymdeithas yr Iaith's Nid yw Cymru ar Werth (Wales is Not For Sale) campaign, Osian Jones said:
07/03/2025 - 12:49
Gwynedd Council has passed a motion calling for the devolution of broadcasting powers to Wales at the full Council meeting on Thursday, 6 March. Cymdeithas yr Iaith has welcomed the motion which calls on the Welsh Government and the British Government to note the decision and work towards transferring responsibility for broadcasting from London to Cardiff as soon as possible.
05/03/2025 - 18:30
Ahead of a discussion on Anglesey Council’s Language Policy on Thursday 6 March, Cymdeithas yr Iaith's Gwynedd and Môn branch has written to councillors to note their concern about its apparent lack of commitment to the aim of moving towards conducting the Council’s internal administration through the medium of Welsh.
19/02/2025 - 15:26
Cuts at universities across the country show that the university funding system needs to change. We are calling on the Government to put the higher education sector on a more solid footing with adequate funding, and in particular to consider the value for money in funding students to study outside of Wales. In 2023-24, a total of £553,473,000 of the Welsh Government’s budget was spent on living costs and tuition fees for Welsh students who chose to follow their higher education courses outside Wales.
04/02/2025 - 15:33
Ahead of Cymdeithas yr Iaith's rally for Welsh education for all, Mabli Siriol, one of the rally's speakers, has said that anyone who wants Welsh education for all need to "take the message to Cardiff Bay" to ensure that the Government's plans for Welsh language education are  strengthened.
03/01/2025 - 15:10
Whilst wishing the Prime Minister a good new year, Cymdeithas yr Iaith has called on the Government to do much more to reach the target of one million speakers by 2050. Members of Cymdeithas left a New Year's card at Eluned Morgan's office in Haverfordwest today (03/01/2025). The card draws attention to the fact that there are only 25 years left to reach one million speakers and that urgent action is needed in order to reach that goal.
24/10/2024 - 17:54
With the publication of the Welsh Government's long-awaited White Paper on Adequate Housing, Fair Rents and Affordability today (Thursday, 24 October), there came confirmation that there is no intention to incorporate the right to adequate housing into Welsh law.
04/04/2024 - 09:41
Cymdeithas yr Iaith has warned that there will be no radical action to solve the housing crisis in Wales and protect Welsh communities unless people come in large numbers to the Nid yw Cymru ar Werth (Wales is Not For Sale) rally in Blaenau Ffestiniog on May 4 to show the strength of feeling. There are concerns among language campaigners that the Government does not understand the extent of the crisis facing Welsh communities, and that progressive policies to get to the root of the problem will not be adopted.
11/10/2022 - 17:50
Nodwn ein siom bod cymaint o'r mesurau yn y Cynllun Tai a Chymunedau Cymraeg a gyhoeddwyd gan y Llywodraeth heddiw (11/10/2022) yn dal i ddibynnu ar weithredoedd gwirfoddol ac nad yw'r mesurau na'r cyllid yn mynd yn bell o gwbl. Deddf Eiddo gyflawn sydd ei hangen. Dywedodd Robat Idris, Cadeirydd Cymdeithas yr Iaith: