Pembrokeshire is once again the proud holder of the B.J. Griffiths Memorial Cup for the fourth time in five years.
The cup is awarded to the county with the highest aggregate score based on participation and results from competing in the annual Youth Events Wales finals held in Newtown.
This years events included youth dance, singing, six-a-side football, pool, cooker, movie-making, photography and poetry.
The events are part of the Pembrokeshire Youth Events programme offered to youth clubs and organisations across the county throughout the year. The winners of these events go on to represent Pembrokeshire in the Youth Events Wales Finals.
Since 2005 Pembrokeshire have won the B.J. Griffiths Memorial Cup on four occassions and runners-up twice.
The origins of the cup had been lost in the mists of time but the success on this occasion has been made sweeter still by the discovery that Benjamin Jack Griffiths was actually from Pembrokeshire.
He was born in Tregwynt Mill in 1914 but rather than follow a career in the family’s woolen mill business, he chose to pursue a career in further education. He reached the peak of his profession by becoming the head of the Welsh Joint Education Committee.
Drawing teams from right across the county, including representatives from the independent youth sector in the form of the Tanyard Youth Project in Pembroke, had full representation in all but one of the events.
“Many of the participants had to get up at six o’clock on a Sunday morning to get up to Newtown in Mid Wales in time for the competitions, not returning until eight at night” said the Pembrokeshire County Council Cabinet Member for Young People, Huw George.
” It was this level of participation and commitment from the young people that was the decisive factor in once again bringing the trophy back to Pembrokeshire.”
At a presentation evening held in County Hall, Haverfordwest, the cup was presented to the young people by Scarlets rugby players Dominic Day and Phil John.
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Cup winners: pictured are a few of the young people who represented Pembrokeshire in the Youth Events Wales Finals in Newtown and brought the B.J. Griffiths Cup ‘home’. Also pictured are the Chairman of Pembrokeshire County Council, Councillor John George; Kate Jenkins, Community Manager; Dominic Day and Phil John; Chris Charlton, Area Youth Co-ordinator (Mid) and Steve Lewis, Community Youth Worker (Fishguard).
