OUR RICH INHERITANCE

Moelyci Environmental Centre was established in 2003 by a group of enterprising local people prepared to take risks. At stake was the future prosperity of a rare Welsh upland sheep farm set in the heart of Gwynedd, North Wales. No longer viable as a tenanted sheep farm, “Moelyci’s” was to be sold and developed as a holiday home complex. Such a fate would have intruded on the social fabric of the villages dotted around the farm and threatened the delicate balance of the farmland’s rich biodiversity - so important that 250 of its 340 acres now have SSSI and SAC European status*.

As local people we believed we could breathe new life into the farm and our local community. If we could acquire Moelyci, conserve its priceless natural heritage and manage the land sensitively we could create a vibrant future for Moelyci where environmental training and education could be established alongside real opportunities for volunteering and employment.

conservation management

Moelyci has an outstanding set of natural resources and ecological conditions which support a superb array of scarce species of moths, beetles, craneflies, plants, and fungi. It is our duty as guardians of this precious natural heritage to manage itsconservation to the highest standards. This we do through the dedication of skilled staff and local voluntary expertise.

As we do so we encourage schoolchildren and adults of all ages and abilities to find, and then open, the doors of discovery which the study of nature, especially at Moelyci, provides.

conservation and social enterprise

Today Moelyci is fast developing as an important environmental education, training and volunteering base for families, schoolchildren, under-graduates, and professionals. Social enterprises* are establishing alongside volunteering and training for employment schemes backed