PYC Supporting Business Growth- Penaluna’s Road Chip- Faster Food
JULY 11th 2024
We supported Penaluna’s with £26,000 loan/grant mix for their new mobile shop ready to attend events, festivals and private functions.
Already a successful business with an excellent local reputation, Penaluna’s had clearly identified why they needed this and the benefit it would bring to them as a business, their staff and the local area.
Newer, updated and more efficient equipment would ensure a better service for their customers.
We supported this project as we are committed to supporting enterprise and entrepreneurial communities and to help businesses develop their offer. We had no doubt they would make a success of this and continue running their much-loved fish and chip shop in Hirwaun and this has been the case.
One of Penaluna’s most recent events was to celebrate D Day and National Fish & Chip Day on Cardiff Bay, cooking for and serving almost 800 people with just Fish & Chips in around 4 hours, previously they had served up to 500 people in the same time. Penaluna’s Road Chip was selected as just one of four mobiles in the country to promote the joint event.
The van has been shown off at Aberdare Festival where queue’s stretched due to volume over 60 deep to get the fish and chip shop items.
“The van is living up to the aspirations of the project title we gave it – Faster Food.
We’ve had repeat business from some large companies since the new van came along including Greggs Factory in Treforest, Devonald’s Solicitors in Pontypridd, Unilever Pot Noodle Factory Crumlin, KLA Newport along with a number of weddings in Pontypridd, Llantwit Fadre, Treorchy and a disabled Riding Centre on the edge of the Vale of Glamorgan.
We’re extremely grateful the project was assisted and supported by Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund CIC. It helped us firmly establish ourselves in the mobile Fish And Chip shop scene with a quality vehicle which no one else has, it allowed us to include technology and ideas to help the service run easier and includes, no heavy lifting of gas bottles, self-sufficiency on electric with leisure batteries and even solar panels.” – Penaluna’s
The Fund was established by energy company Vattenfall to benefit the communities hosting the Pen y Cymoedd wind farm across the upper Neath, Afan, Rhondda and Cynon Valleys. It exists to support local people, groups and organisations to invest in themselves, their ideas and their communities.
The Community Fund has a substantial annual budget that is index-linked, meaning it increases in line with inflation. As an example, this equated to around £2.5 million in 2025. The Fund will continue to support communities until 2043, creating long-term opportunities for growth, resilience and positive change.
The Fund is managed by an independent, locally based not-for-profit Community Interest Company. It is overseen by a Board of Directors with strong local connections and delivered by a small but dedicated staff team with extensive community engagement experience. We are here to help ensure the Fund delivers on the vision and priorities of local communities.
Over the next 10 years, the Fund is focusing on investment in people, places and businesses — helping the Valleys to thrive, driving bold ideas, supporting transformation and creating lasting impact for current and future generations.