Local communities are being urged to help raise £225,000 for next years National Eisteddfod in St Davids.

A number of appeal committees have already been set up to help fund the Eisteddfod, which will cost £2m in total to stage.

So far they have raised over £110,000 - but Eisteddfod organisers are appealing for more people to join the fundraising effort.

We need more people to join the committees, especially in the south of the county, said Sioned Davies, Eisteddfod organiser.

If anyone has any fundraising ideas or wants to get involved in any way with the Eisteddfod activities are very welcome.

You dont even have to be a Welsh speaker; anyone can get involved. She said the Eisteddfod Office had supplies of T-shirts, pens, cups, and so forth, available for committees to sell at coffee mornings and other fundraising activities.

For more information get in touch with the Eisteddfod Office . l Eisteddfod organisers now have a competition list available to send to anybody interested in competing.

Competitions are held in many different subjects, including the arts and crafts, dance, drama, science and technology, literature, poetry reading, learning Welsh, composition, and music - including rock and pop. Competitors do not need to be at school or college and they do not need to part of a club or organisation.

If anyone wants to enter any section at all, contact us and we can send you a list of all the categories, said Sioned Davies.

Pictured with the new Eisteddfod merchandise are Solva CP School pupils Danielle Rees, Abigail Beynon, Gareth Evans, Martyn Davies, and Stephen Backett.