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The All Wales Network Committee for Arts Therapies Professions was set up in early 1989 to support arts therapists across Wales working in the NHS and those working privately to provide a professional network, education and training programme. This group was unique in that it accommodated all of the arts therapies professions that is Art, Drama, Music, Dance Movement Therapies. This was a way for these small professional to support and benefit from each other. In the rest of the UK , England, Scotland and Ireland, the individual professions met separately. It is only in the recent years that Scotland has followed suit. There is currently or has ever been an equivalent forum like this in England. From the first meeting the minutes have always been translated into Welsh, so this is a bilingual record of the development of the arts therapies professions in Wales. Laterly, the name of the advisory committee was changed to the Welsh Arts Therapies Advisory Forum (WATAF), in 2013, this was to enable the group to have a representation on the Government ‘Welsh Therapies Advisory Committee’ (WTAC). Again this is unique to Wales. The Arts Therapies in the rest of the UK still do not have such a close representation to Government. This is a voluntary group and it is a tribute to those Arts Therapist in Wales, who over the years have given their time to successive Welsh Governments for the promotion of the Arts Therapies Professions in health care in Wales. Currently there are two groups we call sister groups one, for those that work within the NHS, so that NHS issues do not dominate the concerns of those therapist who work in different setting or work privately.

Rhwng 1988 a 1989 llwyddwyd i gael cefnogaeth i'r syniad o droi Tŷ Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd, yn ganolfan lenyddol. Y syniad oedd sefydlu canolfan ar lun canolfannau Arvon yn Lloegr, a fyddai'n addas ar gyfer cynnal cyrsiau preswyl i wahanol grwpiau o awduron. Sefydlwyd y ganolfan gyda chymorth ariannol Cyngor y Celfyddydau a chefnogaeth yr Academi. Gosodwyd y tŷ ar les i Ymddiriedolaeth Taliesin. Roedd yr ymddiriedolwyr yn cynnwys Gillian Clarke, W. R. P. George, Emyr Humphreys, Branwen Jarvis, Jonah Jones a Jan Morris.

In 1987 the Welsh Arts Council, in conjunction with the Welsh women's press, Honno, announced an autobiographical essay competition, 'Ar fy Myw! / On my Life!', for Welsh women and women living in Wales. Entries for the competition were invited in both Welsh and English. Siân James and Jill Miller were appointed as adjudicators for the English entries, and Meg Elis and Manon Rhys for those in Welsh. The winners' names were announced in June 1988. Those essays which were not subsequently claimed back by their authors were donated to the Library in February 1989 by the Welsh Arts Council, per Mr Tony Bianchi, Literature Officer.

Ffederasiwn Cerddoriaeth Amatur Cymru / The Welsh Amateur Music Federation was established around 1970. Membership of the Federation is open to all types of amateur music groups in Wales, subject to payment of the membership fees. It provides financial aid to its members, including guarantees against loss, financial assistance to purchase musical scores and instruments and to subsidise the travel costs of conductors and accompanists. It also loans scores to its members. The Federation was initially established as an autonomous body under the authority of the Welsh Arts Council but became totally independent in 1994. However, it continued to receive its funding by means of an annual grant from the Arts Council of Wales. The Federation is organised into several committees, each with responsibility for allocating financial aid to different categories of musical societies. Committee members are nominated by the constituent societies. The committees' decisions are implemented mainly by the liaison officer, a post held from around 1971 to 1995 by Keith Griffin, now the Federation's Director.

The Welsh Agricultural Organisation Society was founded in 1922 as the central organisation for agricultural cooperation in Wales. Its functions are to promote cooperation amongst Welsh farmers, to represent constituent agricultural societies nationally and locally, and to provide professional guidance and expertise to the societies. The Society originated in the Agricultural Organisation Society, founded in London in 1902, which in 1909-1921 received funding from the Development Commission. In 1902, county councillors from Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire visited Ireland to study its agricultural cooperative movement, and on their return they promoted the establishment of cooperative societies in Wales. In 1906, the AOS appointed a local organiser for Wales; a North Wales section was created in 1910, a South Wales section in 1914, and a Welsh Provincial Council in 1919. The direct block grant which the AOS received from the Development Commission ceased in 1919-1920. In 1921, the Development Commission proposed restructuring of AOS, and this led to the transfer of all matters relating to Welsh agricultural cooperation to the new Welsh AOS from 1 April 1922. After a troubled start, WAOS secured government assistance in 1931. Since then, the Society has been funded by grants and the affiliation fees of constituent societies. The Society is still active. The Society has accumulated a large collection of records of member societies and companies, in addition to its own records.