Your Voice, Your Rhyl: What We Heard and What Comes Next
In October 2025, we worked in partnership with The Neumark Foundation to host Your Voice, Your Rhyl – a community event focused on long-term, lasting change in Rhyl.
From the outset, we were clear that this was not about running another consultation. Instead, it was an opportunity to listen in a different way, creating space for people to work side by side, share experiences and begin shaping what meaningful change could look like for the town.
We’re pleased to share the highlights from the event in the report here. It captures what was heard on the day and provides a foundation for the next phase of this work, helping to turn shared ambition into practical action.
Rhyl is a vibrant coastal community of around 27,000 people, with a higher proportion of young families than the Welsh average and over a fifth of residents under the age of 16. While the town faces real and long-standing challenges – including high levels of child poverty and deprivation in some areas – these figures tell only part of the story. Rhyl is also a place of strong connections, deep roots and lived experience, where local insight is essential to understanding how support and opportunity can work better.
Across the day, we heard directly from residents about what matters most to them, including powerful contributions from young people. We also learned from examples of place-based change elsewhere in the UK, and heard commitments of support from funders, local authorities and representatives from Welsh and UK Government.
Together, these conversations offered a clear sense of what can be possible when communities and partners come together with shared intent, and when barriers between sectors begin to fall away.
