Llanteg Hall Committee has just been awarded an NEC internet ready PC and a contribution towards one year's BT Total broadband access as part of the BT Community Connections award scheme. In addition, Microsoft Office 2007 software is included as part of the winning package. The scheme, now in its fourth year, has awarded more than 5.000 IT packages to thousands of community groups and will benefit millions of people. Llanteg, a small rural village in east Pembrokeshire, were among thousands that entered the award scheme and impressed the judges with their ideas of how the PC would benefit both their group and the wider community in the longer term. The hall committee is at present working on getting a telephone line connected to the Village Hall and then they will be able to have the complete package up and running. The committee plans to use the computer, once it is connected to the internet, to maintain the new Llanteg Village website, to keep the History Society Blog up to date and also to help produce the village newsletter and conduct village and family history research. The computer and internet will also be a useful addition for the computer classes that are held in the hall, but are at present limited as to what they can offer due to lack of web access. Sue James, secretary of the hall committee, said: "We are absolutely delighted with our BT Community Connections award. We are a small scattered community and the fact that we can have a website to circulate information and also a central computer to compile a village newsletter means that people will be able to keep up to date on what is happening here. "We also have a message board where people can leave comments and questions and so feel really involved, as the hall is very busy with activities, but people don't always get to hear of everything that is happening. Also we will be able to have more advanced computer courses in the village, as at present when people master the basics, they have to travel further afield to continue their classes. It is hoped to also allow members of the public access to the equipment once were have everything connected." Beth Courtier, head of BT's charity programme, said: "The award scheme aims to give as many people as possible access to the internet and allows groups to develop their projects using easier and more effective methods. Following the overwhelming success of BT Community Connections in previous years, BT is delighted to continue to make a difference to many more community groups throughout the country which wouldn't normally have access to the worldwide web."

Members of Llanteg Hall Committee: Roy James, Jill Chatwin, Hazel Wadey, Roy Deverell, John Lewis-Tunster, Madelaine Cole, Sue James and Ruth Webb.