New Wales think tank set for April launch
A new Welsh think tank will launch in the Senedd early next month.
New Wales is hosting the free event at 6pm on Wednesday 2nd April, which will also feature a panel discussion considering ‘Where next for Wales?’
Attendees will have the an opportunity to cross-examine some of the leading thinkers and experts on the future of Wales, with a special emphasis on its constitutional position as a nation within the United Kingdom.
Ambition
Gwern Gwynfil, acting Director of New Wales/Cymru Newydd said: “Wales needs more people talking constructively, confidently and with ambition for the future of our nation. Too often we constrain ourselves in a civic culture which combines blaming the British government for all our ills with resignation to our fate as a subservient ‘region’ of the UK state.
“We must change this narrative. We must talk about all the possibilities for Wales in depth, with vigour, and on an informed basis. As we formulate that collective, cross-party, confident, vision for our country we can then move on to actively removing the obstructions to making it happen. New Wales will be open to ideas from every quarter.
“New Wales’ objective is to bring together Welsh citizens from across our nation and the global diaspora. Everyone must be involved in the conversation of how we move from ‘that’s just the way it is’ to ‘this is our vision for Wales, let’s make it happen.
“We hope that New Wales will be just one voice amongst many, albeit a very loud one, pushing all of us in Wales towards a better, brighter future – with robust knowledge, with vigorous and widespread debate and discussion, with a determination to see our nation prosper and flourish, and with ambition, bravery and confidence in ourselves and our place in the wider world as citizens of Wales.”
Tickets to attend the launch are free and are available here.
To hear more from Gwern Gwynfil about the vision for New Wales tune in to the most recent episode of Be The Change media’s Spare a Thought Podcast
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I think that name has had its day, that is how the ‘Tank’ Corps fooled the Germans…
A leader with the voice of Burton…
Someone good at logistics and due diligence, free of corruption, fraud and self-interest and not ‘Linked In’ with secret societies and religious cults of the most cruel and selfish kind…
Should be lots of fun finding him/her/it that meets that spec. I’ll abstain from attempting to seek out that particular needle in the haystack !
A one in 3.1 million chance…there is only Mr Sheen who could play this part…
The USA can’t find one out of 340 million…
Whopee, another unelected, uaccountable quango!
Not a quango but probably even more irritating. Think tanks are great at telling anyone who’ll listen “this is what we want/need…” but often fail to outline a credible pathway to a positive outcome.
Perhaps they should just club together and buy a gold fish bowl.
Happy with more of the same then? Labour in power forever and Wales treated like a region of England.
Not a quango. A quango is a government organisation.
It will probably be registered as a charity then get funding from various public bodies to mould the public their way.
That’s not how it works, but ok.
Good to see Gwern Gwynfil back on the public stage.