• Visiting the Ugly House? Important note about parking this week.

    The car park will be closed until Thursday this week (21/3) while the wall is being repaired. The S1 and T10 buses stop outside the house and the free Cae’n y Coed car park is less than 10 minutes’ walk along the road, towards Betws y Coed.

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  • Green travel: Electric Bike Ride

    Biking and e-biking are really fun, eco-friendly ways to explore the National Park. Here about our recent trip from Bethesda to Llyn Idwal, with thanks to Beics Ogwen, Bethesda!

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  • Will you join Iolo Williams in writing to the Welsh Government to support nature-friendly farming in our National Parks?

    Will you join Iolo Williams in writing to the Welsh Government to support nature-friendly farming in our National Parks? Nature in Wales is in crisis; one is six species is at risk of disappearing from the country. The Welsh Government is currently consulting on a new Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) to take the place of […]

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  • Help us tackle the Nature Emergency and support Nature-friendly farming in Eryri!

    Help us tackle the Nature Emergency and support Nature-friendly farming in Eryri!

    Nature in Wales is in crisis; one is six species is at risk of disappearing from the country. The Welsh Government is currently consulting on a new Sustainable Farming Scheme to take the place of the CAP. Will you help us put things right by taking part in consultation? It only takes two minutes!

    We’re calling on Welsh Government to do more for farmers and nature in our National Parks through the Sustainable Farming Scheme, and we need your help.

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  • 2023 Himalayan Balsam Update 

    Himalayan balsam may not be as notorious as Japanese knotweed, but it has gained its own infamy among conservationists. The momentum to combat this invasive species is building, with increasing demands for long-term government initiatives to tackle their spread and damaging effects.

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  • We are recruiting 2x Conservation Assistant trainees

    If you want to help look after the environment, this could be the job for you. You will gain a wide range of experience, which will help you progress in the environment sector.

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  • Rhaeadr y Cwm, one of Eryri’s most iconic waterfalls is threatened once again

    Cwm Cynfal is a place that has inspired storytellers, artists and poets over a millenium. It is one of Eryri’s most majestic waterfalls. But now it is being threatened once again by a hydro-electric scheme that would see the river dammed and as much as 70% of the water diverted around the waterfall.

    Three times already over the past thirty years plans have been submitted for a hydro-electric scheme in Cwm Cynfal. Three times they have been either refused or withdrawn. But now developers are set to make a further application and they are currently concluding a pre-application consultation which comes to an end on 24 November.

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  • Cymdeithas Eryri’s “Helping Hands” celebrate a year of frenetic volunteer work at AGM

    Cymdeithas Eryri Snowdonia Society will be holding its AGM at Plas y Brenin on 18 November and celebrating a frenetic year of working with volunteers to tackle some of the biggest threats to the Eryri National Park.

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  • Thank you Shared Prosperity Fund

    Our volunteer project, Helping Hands: Growing Caru Eryri has received £249,940 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, administered by Gwynedd Council.

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  • Welcome to Rory Francis, our new Director

    We are sure Rory will bring his own vision and influence to how Cymdeithas Eryri can best make a difference over the next decade.

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  • AGM Agenda 2023 Plas y Brenin

    You are warmly invited to our Annual General Meeting at Plas y Brenin on 18th November 2023.
    Book online here

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  • Thank you to our supporters during the MaD weekend

    Huge thanks to everyone who helped make our sixth annual Make a Difference Weekend a success!

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  • An unexpected discovery

    My knees are beginning to complain at this point in the descent. Having walked up Cwm Glas Mawr, scuttled up into Cwm Uchaf, scrambled across Crib Goch before wading through the crowds to reach the summit (or near enough) of Yr Wyddfa, I am relieved to be en route back to the car…

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  • New appointments

    I´m delighted to let members, volunteers and supporters know that we have recently recruited two new staff members

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  • Lines in the landscape

    We are delighted to have been awarded £20,000 from the National Grid Electricity Distribution’s community grant programme earlier this year.  We are grateful and extremely pleased to be working with them on an exciting strand of work: Lines in the landscape. Watch out for even more exciting events with a linear theme – from shoreline […]

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  • Thank you to the Postcode Community Trust

    We are delighted to have been awarded £25,000 from Postcode Community Trust, a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. 

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  • A Plastic Free Plas Coch?

    What does it take for a hotel to go plastic free? Read about Business members Gwesty Plas Coch and their journey to achieve their goal: ‘We can, we will and we do reuse, recycle and compost just about everything!’

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  • Snowdonia Society Annual General Meeting 2023 

    This is your opportunity to join the staff and trustee team in an enjoyable day, learn about the Society’s work over the past year and plans for the next.

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  • Make a Difference weekend – booking open!

    Join us for our annual MaD weekend on the 8th – 10th September at Nant Gwynant, for a volunteering, events, food, live music and more!

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  • We are recruiting – Director

    Do you have a deep knowledge and love of nature with a strong track record and experience of working in conservation and the protection of landscapes and heritage?

    Can you demonstrate how you would use this to lead Cymdeithas Eryri in the future, helping us to develop the special roles we have, making a difference in practical conservation, advocacy and campaigning?

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