Learncymraeg.org is the website for the North Wales Welsh for Adults Centre.

The Centre was established on 1 April 2006 following the restructuring of Welsh for Adults education by the Welsh Assembly Government, who established 6 regional Centres throughout Wales. The North Wales Centre is one of the 6 and is responsible for all the Welsh for Adults provision in North Wales

North Wales

North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...

. The Centre's catchment area includes Ynys Môn

Anglesey

Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...

, Gwynedd

Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although the second biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated...

 (not including Meirionnydd), and Conwy

Conwy

Conwy is a walled market town and community in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales. The town, which faces Deganwy across the River Conwy, formerly lay in Gwynedd and prior to that in Caernarfonshire. Conwy has a population of 14,208...

 in the west, and Denbigh

Denbigh

Denbigh is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales. Before 1888, it was the county town of Denbighshire. Denbigh lies 8 miles to the north west of Ruthin and to the south of St Asaph. It is about 13 miles from the seaside resort of Rhyl. The town grew around the glove-making industry...

, Flint

Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones. Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, black, green, white, or brown in colour, and...

 and Wrexham

Wrexham

Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough, and the largest town in North Wales, located in the east of the region. It is situated between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley close to the border with Cheshire, England...

 in the east. This means a region from Pen Llyn in the west to Wrexham in the east and as far south as Meirionnydd and Montgomery

Montgomery, Powys

The historic county town of Montgomery in Powys, Wales lies just three miles from the English border in the Welsh Marches. It is best known for its castle, Montgomery Castle, begun in 1223, and its parish church, begun in 1227. However its origins go back much further, as seen by the Celtic Iron...

's northern borders. The region has a population of 631,283; with 30% on average either speaking, reading or writing Welsh. The region's providers had over 7,000 enrolments on Welsh for Adults courses in 2005/2006, by far the highest number of enrolments of the 6 regions.

The Centre's main office is in Parc Menai in Bangor

Bangor, Gwynedd

Bangor is a city in Gwynedd, north west Wales, and one of the smallest cities in Britain. It is a university city with a population of 13,725 at the 2001 census, not including around 10,000 students at Bangor University. Including nearby Menai Bridge on Anglesey, which does not however form part of...

 and it also has an office in Mold, Flintshire

Mold, Flintshire

Mold is a town in Flintshire, North Wales, on the River Alyn. It is the administrative seat of Flintshire County Council, and was also the county town of Clwyd from 1974 to 1996...

, as well as a member of staff in Connah's Quay (with thanks to Deeside College

Deeside College

Deeside College is a further education college situated in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, North Wales. In January 2007, the college gained the highest possible grade 1 inspection ratings for its Work Based Learning provision...

).

The Centre's main functions are:

• Information and support - Provision of wide-ranging support for learners on all aspects of the provision.
• The workplace - Develop and extend the support which is available to workplaces who wish to improve the learning opportunities offered to their staff.
• Families - Develop real opportunities for non-Welsh speaking parents to learn Welsh and assist their children with their bilingual education.
• Informal learning - Develop a structure and opportunities, in collaboration with other prominent public and voluntary bodies, to allow learners to use Welsh naturally outside the classroom.
• Resources - Develop Welsh for Adults courses and resources so that the best modern resources are available for our learners.
• Tutor training - Establish a continuous training programme for tutors and prospective tutors in north Wales. This includes offering the new national qualification from October 2007 onwards, as well as a comprehensive training and development programme for the region.
• Strategy - Provision of strategic guidance for the Welsh for Adults field in north Wales.
• Planning - Effective co-ordination of the field and the provision, in co-operation with the current providers in order to improve upon the provision available to learners.
• Contracting - Offer contracts to as many of the individual providers in north Wales as possible so that the Centre can offer a wide choice of courses to learners in the north.
• Co-ordination - Of all the provision in the north in a way which will offer the best and widest possible choice to the region's learners.
• Market research - Regularly undertake research to keep in touch with learners' demand and needs.