PORTHMADOG Town Council has just two and a half weeks to save the town’s youth club after an “administrative mix-up” meant councillors were unaware the service was under threat until this week.

All youth clubs in the county are due to shut at the end of March unless additional funding/support is found but, due to a misspelled email address, Porthmadog Town Council wasn’t informed of the situation until it was flagged up in a recent Cambrian News story.

Gwynedd Council has admitted the town council was not made aware of the threat to the local service, but has this week made urgent arrangements to update Porthmadog councillors.

Cllr Jason Humphreys was dismayed that the town might lose such a valuable asset and that there was only a small window in which to save it.

“Porthmadog’s Youth Club is due to close at the end of the month. The town council should have received a letter from Gwynedd at the beginning of February inviting it to assist in keeping the club going, but it failed to arrive,” he said.

“We’ve now received copies and I have notified the chairman of my intention to raise it as an urgent matter on Tuesday night. Youths are as much a part of our community as anyone else and this matter deserves serious consideration.

“I vociferously opposed the town council’s decision to subsidise Gwynedd’s toilets because of how the town council is funded. I view this issue very differently.”

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