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About Us
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Wales is a charity that offers support and assistance to young people and youth/sports clubs across Wales. The charity developed from the Boys' Club movement and their aim is "To support and assist in the physical, educational, ethical development of young people, through their leisure time activity, so that they may mature as responsible individuals and as valued members of their communities"

Boys' and Girls' Clubs of Wales has offered various opportunities for young people in Wales, since 1928, to participate in different youth projects and sporting activities. The organisation has over 170 affiliated clubs in Wales, with over 30,000 youth taking part in its activities.

The Founders:
The founders of the organisation were Lord David Davies of Llandinam and Captain John Glynn Jones. Both men are believed to have met during the First World War having both fought in the same Battalion.

Early Beginnings:
After the First World War, Captain John Glynn Jones was hired by Lord David Davies to be his Recreation officer at Llandinam as well as the Welfare officer for the Ocean Coal Company Limited. His first intention was to 'Improve the needs of the Collier Boy. The Boys Club to open in Wales was at the Deep Navigation Colliery, Treharris in 1922.