English: Yes, I have made three bids since we opened. We didn't put forward a bid to the arts council at the beginning - we wanted to see whether we could run without sponsorship, and we succeeded. But what we did find was that we couldn't develop culturally - we were running it more as a business. So, that's where the arts council comes in. I know this is an obvious thing to say, but it's true: without it, you're just thinking about the bottom line all the time, to maintain the venue, and not just, 'Is this artistic? Could we put something on?' One thing I would say, and I've been thinking about this for a while: last year, we ran 10 events during the year with sponsorship from the arts council. That was a small part of what we do during the year, but these were events where we could put on world music, and that means more costs in terms of travel and transport and so on - the costs are higher - and it was excellent. The only thing I think is that if we want to promote the Welsh language, I think it's an opportunity to include a clause to say that if you put on so many cultural events, a portion of them should be through the medium of Welsh. So, we had to spend that funding on music from outwith Wales - well, we didn't have to, but that's why we'd received the funding. If we'd used that funding to put on music from Wales, then we would have breached the terms and conditions of the grant that we'd received. And, in my opinion, that's a bit of a shame that I have to book bands such as Candelas and so on, and we have to make that work economically ourselves - it has to pay for itself - and then we have to make enough money to pay the bills, but I can receive sponsorship to put on something from outwith Wales. So, I think that there is room to have one funding stream where it says - . It could be separate funding, not to pay for things, but to support the ability to put on events, so that we can do that without making a loss, because that's the target usually. It's not about spending public money all over the shop; it's about using it to create jobs and everything that goes with that. I think there is space to do that.
Welsh: Ie, dwi wedi gwneud tri chais ers i ni agor. Wnaethon ni ddim gwneud cais cyngor celfyddydau i gychwyn - roeddem ni eisiau treialu i weld a oedden ni'n gallu rhedeg heb nawdd, ac fe wnaethon ni lwyddo. Ond beth oedden ni'n ffeindio oedd, doedden ni ddim yn gallu datblygu'n gelfyddydol - roeddem ni'n ei redeg o mwy fel busnes. Felly, dyna le mae'r cyngor celfyddydau yn dod i mewn. Dwi'n gwybod ei fod o'n beth amlwg i'w ddweud, ond mae o'n wir: hebddo fo, rydych chi jest yn meddwl am y bottom line, i gynnal y ganolfan, ac nid yn unig, 'Ydy rhywbeth yn gelfyddydol? Allwn ni rhoi rhywbeth ymlaen?' Yr unig beth fuaswn i'n ei ddweud, a dwi wedi bod yn meddwl am hyn ers tipyn: blwyddyn diwethaf fe wnaethon ni rhedeg 10 digwyddiad yn ystod y flwyddyn efo nawdd cyngor y celfyddydau. Roedd hwnna'n rhan fach o beth rydyn ni'n ei wneud yn y flwyddyn, ond roedd y rhain yn bethau lle roeddem ni'n gallu rhoi cerddoriaeth byd ymlaen, ac mae hynna'n golygu mwy o gostau o ran teithio a ballu - mae'r costau'n uwch - ac roedd o'n ffantastig. Yr unig beth dwi'n meddwl ydy, os ydyn ni eisiau hyrwyddo'r Gymraeg, dwi'n meddwl ei fod yn gyfle i roi clause i mewn i ddweud, os ydych chi'n rhoi hyn a hyn o ddigwyddiadau celfyddydol ymlaen, fod yna garfan ohonyn nhw'n gorfod bod yn y Gymraeg. Roeddem ni'n gorfod gwario'r pres yna ar gerddoriaeth oddi allan i Gymru - wel, doedden ni ddim yn gorfod gwneud, ond dyna pam roeddem ni wedi cael y pres. Pe baem ni wedi defnyddio'r pres hwnnw i roi cerddoriaeth o Gymru ymlaen, buasem ni wedi mynd yn erbyn y telerau roeddem ni wedi'u cael. Ac i fi, mae yna ychydig o bechod yn fanna, fy mod i'n gorfod bwcio bandiau fel Candelas, a llefydd fel yna, a rydym ni'n gorfod gwneud i hynna weithio'n hollol economaidd - rhaid iddo dalu am ei hun - ac ar hynny, rhaid inni ennill pres i dalu biliau, ond dwi'n gallu cael nawdd i roi rhywbeth o'r tu allan i Gymru ymlaen. Felly, dwi'n meddwl bod yna le i gael un llinell lle mae'n dweud - . Buasai'n gallu bod yn nawdd ar wahân, nid i dalu am bethau, ond i gefnogi'r gallu i roi pethau ymlaen, fel ein bod ni'n gallu rhoi pethau ymlaen ddim i golli pres, achos dyna'r targed fel arfer. Dyw e ddim am chwalu pres cyhoeddus, ond ei ddefnyddio fo a chreu swyddi a bob dim o gwmpas hynny. Dwi'n meddwl bod yna le i wneud hynna.