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A new creative centre for young people in Bangor received a triple funding boost this week. Nyth, the new home for Welsh language theatre company Frân Wen, has secured £3.21m for the transformation of the grade-II listed St Mary s Church in the city centre. The project has been allocated £1.8m from the National Lottery, administrated through Arts Council of Wales, £1.2m through Cyngor Gwynedd by Welsh Government’s Transforming Towns programme, £200,000 from the Garfield Weston Foundation and £10,000 from The Pennant Foundation. Once complete, the new centre will become a creative hub where young people and artists can develop their ideas and create exceptional and relevant theatre that speaks from North West Wales to the rest of the country and beyond.