Click for video - The Brechfa Forest Wind Farm Community Fund is enabling the communities that surround the site to achieve extraordinary things.

Welcome to the Brechfa Forest West
Wind Farm Community Fund! 

Worth £11 million over the lifetime of the wind farm, the Brechfa Forest Wind Farm Community Fund is enabling the communities that surround the site to achieve extraordinary things. Launched in 2018 by RWE Renewables, the energy company that owns Brechfa Forest Wind Farm, the fund aims to support the communities that neighbour the wind farm for the 25 year lifetime of the site.

The fund is independently administered by local enterprise agency Antur Cymru, who employ our locally based part time Fund Manager.

Decisions on the allocation of funds are made by a grants panel of people who live, work or volunteer in the funds area of benefit.

Within the first 5 years of operation the Fund has made awards totalling more than £3,716,674.14 to projects that significantly benefit the communities living within 6km of the Wind Farm

Number of projects funded – 315
Number of organisations supported – 130
Longest award – 10 years
Largest grant £250k
Smallest grant £85
Match funding secured - £7,632,466
Jobs created 5.5
Jobs safeguarded 23.5

This website aims to answer your questions about the fund,  but if you still have questions please contact us at [email protected]

grant awards infographic
5year statistics infographic -types of project funded

Funding Surgeries

Join us and share your ideas on how funding from the Brechfa Forest West Wind Farm Fund could be used for the benefit of your community

15/09/2025
Pencader Pavilion

28/01/2026
Llanllawddog Church Hall

04/02/2026
Llanfihangel ar Arth Hall

25/02/2026
St Michael’s Church Hall Llanfihangel Rhos-Y-Corn

Or for more details, get in touch:
01239 710238