English: Good morning and thank you for the welcome and the opportunity to be here. Before starting, may I apologise that Aled Siôn, the director of the Eisteddfod, isn't here this morning? He's unwell at the moment, so Catrin and I will seek to answer the questions as well as we can. But, before answering your specific question, I would like to give you just a little background about the Urdd Eisteddfod. The cost of the Eisteddfod is around £2 million per annum for the Urdd and, out of that, we get around £150,000 in grants from the Welsh Government towards the necessary spend. Last year, we brought a value of £11.5 million into the Welsh economy through the Eisteddfod, and £5.5 million of that was specifically to the Brecon and Radnor area in the Urdd Eisteddfod 2018. Our outputs in terms of our work with the Eisteddfod have always been in terms of increasing the number of children and young people who have an opportunity to be involved with the Welsh language outside of schools, and we've never really targeted poverty specifically at the moment, but we certainly see that there is huge value to the services that we provide. But, at the moment, the information and the evidence around poverty isn't available, because we've been looking at outcomes in terms of the Welsh language. What I would like to say is that the Eisteddfod is certainly reaching children and young people from all social backgrounds. We know that from the fact that over 70,000 will compete in our eisteddfodau this year and have been competing in our activities throughout March. There are 217 individual competitions as part of the Eisteddfod. Over 3,000 volunteer for the Eisteddfod and 836 schools or branches compete. So, not all of the schools come from the advantaged areas of Wales; they come from all sorts of areas and regions that do face poverty and children who do face disadvantage as a result of that. So, we do know that we provide value to those young people in their engagement with the arts and perhaps those young people wouldn't have been involved with the arts in the past. Perhaps another important thing to note is that the cost of being involved with any Eisteddfod activity is very low indeed. We ask members to pay £7 per annum to be involved with all of our activities and, for that, naturally, they have access to the arts through the school eisteddfodau, the regional eisteddfodau, and the national Eisteddfod. Catrin.
Welsh: Bore da a diolch i chi am y croeso a'r cyfle i ddod yma heddiw. Cyn cychwyn, efallai y gallaf i ymddiheuro dyw Aled Siôn, sef cyfarwyddwr yr Eisteddfod, ddim yma y bore yma. Mae'n sâl ar hyn o bryd, felly dwi a Catrin yn mynd i drio ateb y cwestiynau mor dda ag ydyn ni'n gallu. Efallai cyn mynd i mewn i hynny i ateb cwestiwn penodol, liciwn i jest roi ychydig bach o gefndir i chi am Eisteddfod yr Urdd. Mae cost Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn gost o bron i £2 filiwn i'r Urdd yn flynyddol. Allan o hynny, dŷn ni'n cael rhyw £150,000 gan Lywodraeth Cymru i fynd tuag at y targed o'r gwariant sydd yn angenrheidiol. Y llynedd, daethon ni â gwerth £11.5 miliwn i'r economi yng Nghymru drwy waith yr Eisteddfod, ac roedd £5.5 miliwn o hynny'n benodol i ardal Brycheiniog a Maesyfed yn Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2018. Mae ein hallbynnau ni o ran ein gwaith gyda'r Eisteddfod wastad wedi bod i gynyddu'r niferoedd o blant a phobl ifanc sy'n cael cyfleoedd i ymwneud â'r Gymraeg y tu allan i'r ysgol a dydy'r allbynnau byth yn wirioneddol wedi bod tuag at dlodi ar hyn o bryd. Felly, dŷn ni'n gweld yn sicr bod yna werth mawr i'r gwasanaeth dŷn ni'n ei greu, ond, ar hyn o bryd, efallai dyw'r wybodaeth o ran tystiolaeth ar dlodi ddim gyda ni oherwydd bod yr allbynnau wedi bod o ran y Gymraeg. Beth hoffwn i ei ddatgan ydy bod yr Eisteddfod yn sicr yn llwyddo i gyrraedd plant a phobl ifanc o bob cefndir cymdeithasol. Dŷn ni'n gwybod hynny o'r ffaith bod yna dros 70,000 eleni yn cystadlu yn ein heisteddfodau ni ac wedi bod yn cystadlu trwy gydol mis Mawrth ar ein gweithgareddau ni. Mae yna 217 o gystadlaethau unigol yn rhan o'r Eisteddfod, a digwyddiadau wedi bod yn yr Eisteddfod. Mae dros 3,000 o bobl yn gwirfoddoli i ni ar gyfer yr Eisteddfod ac mae yna 836 o ysgolion neu ganghennau'n cystadlu. Felly, dyw'r ysgolion ddim i gyd yn dod o ardaloedd breintiedig yng Nghymru; mae'r ysgolion yn dod o amrywiaeth o ranbarthau ac ardaloedd sy'n wynebu tlodi a phlant sy'n byw mewn sefyllfaoedd difreintiedig oherwydd hynny. Felly, dŷn ni'n gwybod yn sicr ein bod ni'n cael gwerth i'r bobl ifanc a'r plant yn ymwneud â'r celfyddydau efallai na fyddan nhw'n ymwneud â'r celfyddydau ar hyn o bryd. Peth pwysig, efallai, i'w nodi ydy bod y gost o ymwneud ag unrhyw brofiad Eisteddfod yn rhesymol o rad. Dŷn ni'n gofyn i aelodau dalu £7 y flwyddyn am y profiad o ymwneud â'n gweithgareddau ni yn eu cyfanrwydd, ac, am hynny, yn naturiol, maen nhw'n cael access i'r celfyddydau trwy eisteddfod ysgol i'r cylch i'r rhanbarthol i'r genedlaethol oherwydd hynny. Catrin.