Ffestiniog: engagement pack
Ffestiniog (community W04000063), in Gwynedd. Jobs and firms are for the wider area (W02000018), which holds Ffestiniog, never split to the community. Community census figures are approximate. Every figure is marked [S…] (a served claim) or [R…] (a report section), listed at the foot. English text. The Welsh version of this page is to follow.
The three strongest opportunities
Llefelys's reading of the evidence, by a rule fixed before computing; not a forecast or a recommendation.
- Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services: the wider area's highest location quotient (2.7 [S15]) among the sectors whose Gwynedd jobs grew 2015 to 2024 (by 500 [R1]†).
- Kitchen and catering assistants: the found skills route with the most Gwynedd adverts (224 [R2]): kitchen assistant into kitchen porter, 10 of 13 essential skills shared.
- CPV 45 Construction work: where most Gwynedd buyers' awards go to suppliers outside Wales (30 awards, April 2022 to March 2026, Sell2Wales [S16]).
Skills held (Census 2021, census day 21/03/2021, ONS)
| Ffestiniog (approximate) | Gwynedd | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| economically active, aged 16+ | 58% [S1] | 56% [S4] | 57% [S7] |
| Level 4 qualifications or above, 16+ | 29% [S2] | 35% [S5] | 32% [S8] |
| can speak Welsh, aged 3+ | 75% [S3] | 64% [S6] | 18% [S9] |
Jobs nearby: the wider area (W02000018)
2,010 jobs in 2024 [S10] (BRES, rounded); 230 firms in 2026 [S11]. Largest sectors, with the location quotient against Wales (above 1: more concentrated here than in Wales): Mining, quarrying & utilities 300, quotient 8.86 [S12]; Manufacturing 300, quotient 1.52 [S13]; Health 250, quotient 0.73 [S14]. Where the wider area's working residents work: not shown in this phase (the Census workplace tables are still being built).
Hard-to-fill posts
Gwynedd's online job adverts (adverts, not vacancies), most in: Professional occupations 1,007; Elementary occupations 832; Associate professional occupations 793 [S17]. Employers saying they have a hard-to-fill vacancy (Employer Skills Survey 2024): Wales 9%, north Wales 9%; share of vacancies hard to fill: Wales 51%, north Wales 49% [R3]. Neither is a figure for Gwynedd.
Skills routes
Of the proposal's routes, one was found (energy work) and 5 were not (drone work, retrofit work, aquaculture, offshore energy, care). Of Gwynedd's five most-advertised occupations, 4 have a short route from an occupation the proposal names and 1 has none (Care workers and home carers) [R4].
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. These skills routes are derived from (adapted from) ESCO v1.2.1 by Llefelys; they are not ESCO itself.
Missed local supply and sectors with room to grow
Gwynedd buyers' 726 supplier awards, April 2022 to March 2026, Sell2Wales [S18]: 11 to suppliers in the buyer's community [S19], 171 in its authority [S20], 311 elsewhere in Wales [S21], 229 outside Wales [S22]; a location unknown for fewer than 5. No supplier is named. This figure covers April 2022 to March 2026 and under-counts 2025-26: awards under the Procurement Act 2023, from 24/02/2025, are published on Find a Tender, not Sell2Wales. A Find a Tender figure will follow. Contains public sector information from Sell2Wales (Welsh Government), licensed under the Open Government Licence. Buyers and suppliers placed with the ONS Postcode Directory: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 | Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026 | Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services jobs in the wider area changed by +0 from 2023 to 2024† [R1]. BRES open access publishes no MSOA figures for 2015 to 2022, so those years are shown for Gwynedd only; the wider area's change runs from 2023. † ONS: BRES "provides point-in-time estimates and is not designed for time-series analysis"; figures are rounded for disclosure control, so a small change may be rounding alone. The proposal's own list of local assets is on the full sectors page.
Questions to put
- To the council: Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services is more concentrated in the wider area than in Wales (quotient 2.7 [S15]) and grew in Gwynedd [R1]: what in the council's plans helps it keep growing here?
- To the council: 30 awards for CPV 45 Construction work went to suppliers outside Wales (April 2022 to March 2026, Sell2Wales) [S16]: which could local firms bid for, and what would help them?
- To the North Wales Regional Skills Partnership: Kitchen and catering assistants had the most Gwynedd adverts (224 [R2]) and a short route into it exists: is training for it offered near Ffestiniog?
- To a funder: skilled trades are the occupations north Wales employers most often find hard to fill (33%; Wales 30% [R3]): would you back local training or apprenticeships in them?
Where each figure comes from
| ref | kind | where | trace |
|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | served claim | llefelys-census-profiles, W04000063 | usual_residents_economic_activity_count; 21/03/2021; the 'Economically active' leaves over all 19 TS066 leaves; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:12Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-7d070c |
| S2 | served claim | llefelys-census-profiles, W04000063 | usual_residents_highest_qualification_count; 21/03/2021; 'Level 4 qualifications and above' over all 7 TS067 leaves; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:12Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-7d070c |
| S3 | served claim | llefelys-census-profiles, W04000063 | usual_residents_welsh_speaking_count; 21/03/2021; 'Can speak Welsh' over both TS033 leaves; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:12Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-7d070c |
| S4 | served claim | llefelys-census-profiles, W06000002 | usual_residents_economic_activity_count; 21/03/2021; the 'Economically active' leaves over all 19 TS066 leaves; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:14Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-7d070c |
| S5 | served claim | llefelys-census-profiles, W06000002 | usual_residents_highest_qualification_count; 21/03/2021; 'Level 4 qualifications and above' over all 7 TS067 leaves; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:14Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-7d070c |
| S6 | served claim | llefelys-census-profiles, W06000002 | usual_residents_welsh_speaking_count; 21/03/2021; 'Can speak Welsh' over both TS033 leaves; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:14Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-7d070c |
| S7 | served claim | llefelys-census-profiles, W92000004 | usual_residents_economic_activity_count; 21/03/2021; the 'Economically active' leaves over all 19 TS066 leaves; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:16Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-7d070c |
| S8 | served claim | llefelys-census-profiles, W92000004 | usual_residents_highest_qualification_count; 21/03/2021; 'Level 4 qualifications and above' over all 7 TS067 leaves; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:16Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-7d070c |
| S9 | served claim | llefelys-census-profiles, W92000004 | usual_residents_welsh_speaking_count; 21/03/2021; 'Can speak Welsh' over both TS033 leaves; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:16Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-7d070c |
| S10 | served claim | llefelys-jobs-firms, W02000018 | bres_employment_count; 2024; 'Employment, |
| S11 | served claim | llefelys-jobs-firms, W02000018 | enterprises_count; 2026; ' |
| S12 | served claim | llefelys-jobs-firms, W02000018 | bres_employment_count; bres_employment_location_quotient; 2024; 'Employment, 2 : Mining, quarrying & utilities (B,D and E), 2024'; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:16Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-551c2c (BRES), REQ-arloesidolgellau-c1fbf7 (UK Business Counts) |
| S13 | served claim | llefelys-jobs-firms, W02000018 | bres_employment_count; bres_employment_location_quotient; 2024; 'Employment, 3 : Manufacturing (C), 2024'; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:16Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-551c2c (BRES), REQ-arloesidolgellau-c1fbf7 (UK Business Counts) |
| S14 | served claim | llefelys-jobs-firms, W02000018 | bres_employment_count; bres_employment_location_quotient; 2024; 'Employment, 17 : Health (Q), 2024'; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:16Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-551c2c (BRES), REQ-arloesidolgellau-c1fbf7 (UK Business Counts) |
| S15 | served claim | llefelys-jobs-firms, W02000018 | bres_employment_location_quotient; 2024; 'Employment, 18 : Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services (R,S,T and U), 2024' (location quotient); logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:16Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-551c2c (BRES), REQ-arloesidolgellau-c1fbf7 (UK Business Counts) |
| R1 | report section | design/llefelys-sector-change.md: Gwynedd, 18 : Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services (R,S,T and U): change 2015 to 2024 | commit 59af55f8372d; sha256 6ee90cc4f5dc…; REQ-arloesidolgellau-551c2c |
| R2 | report section | design/llefelys-skills-routes.md: Gwynedd's five most-advertised occupations: SOC 9263 | commit a2bb9829e5a8; sha256 a916a3f1ed69…; REQ-arloesidolgellau-2fce03 (ESCO); REQ-arloesidolgellau-f89d55 (adverts) |
| S16 | served claim | llefelys-missed-supply, W06000002 | public_contract_supplier_awards_count; April 2022 to March 2026; outside Wales, CPV division 45, April 2022 to March 2026, Sell2Wales via the OCP Data Registry; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:20Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-ed7120 |
| S17 | served claim | online-job-adverts, W06000002 | online_job_adverts_count; 2025 Q3 to 2026 Q2; the published 'SOC 2020 |
| R3 | report section | design/llefelys-hard-to-fill.md: What employers in Wales and in north Wales say | commit 911a72dfc05a; sha256 957bb845b393…; REQ-arloesidolgellau-d7b2b2 (survey); REQ-arloesidolgellau-f89d55 (adverts) |
| R4 | report section | design/llefelys-skills-routes.md: the proposal's three routes and Gwynedd's five most-advertised occupations | commit a2bb9829e5a8; sha256 a916a3f1ed69…; REQ-arloesidolgellau-2fce03 (ESCO); REQ-arloesidolgellau-f89d55 (adverts) |
| S18 | served claim | llefelys-missed-supply, W06000002 | public_contract_supplier_awards_count; April 2022 to March 2026; all locations, all CPV divisions, April 2022 to March 2026, Sell2Wales via the OCP Data Registry; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:20Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-ed7120 |
| S19 | served claim | llefelys-missed-supply, W06000002 | public_contract_supplier_awards_count; April 2022 to March 2026; in the buyer's community, all CPV divisions, April 2022 to March 2026, Sell2Wales via the OCP Data Registry; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:20Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-ed7120 |
| S20 | served claim | llefelys-missed-supply, W06000002 | public_contract_supplier_awards_count; April 2022 to March 2026; in the buyer's authority, all CPV divisions, April 2022 to March 2026, Sell2Wales via the OCP Data Registry; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:20Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-ed7120 |
| S21 | served claim | llefelys-missed-supply, W06000002 | public_contract_supplier_awards_count; April 2022 to March 2026; elsewhere in Wales, all CPV divisions, April 2022 to March 2026, Sell2Wales via the OCP Data Registry; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:20Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-ed7120 |
| S22 | served claim | llefelys-missed-supply, W06000002 | public_contract_supplier_awards_count; April 2022 to March 2026; outside Wales, all CPV divisions, April 2022 to March 2026, Sell2Wales via the OCP Data Registry; logged read 2026-11-12T19:09:20Z; REQ-arloesidolgellau-ed7120 |