Editing Welsh Language Society (section)

== Campaign areas ==
[[File:Nid yw Cymru ar Werth protest Aberystwyth 2022.jpg|thumb|340x340px|Nid yw Cymru ar Werth protest in Aberystwyth, February 2022]]
The principal campaigns can be divided into four major areas:

=== ''{{lang|cy|Hawliau i'r Gymraeg}}'' (Rights to the Welsh language) ===

At the beginning of the 21st century, the society started a campaign for a new Welsh Language Act. The Welsh Language Act 1993 declared that Welsh should be treated on an equal basis with English, but the society argued that this fell short of what is needed.

In 2007, the society published its own {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140328011345/http://cymdeithas.org/dogfen/mesur-yr-iaith-gymraeg-2007-welsh-language-measure-2007 Welsh Language Measure]}}, draft legislation which would amongst other things establish official status for the Welsh language and rights to use it, and establish the office of the Welsh Language Commissioner.

In 2011, based in large part on the society's proposals, the [[National Assembly for Wales]] passed the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011, which established the Welsh language as an official language of Wales, and introduced the [[Welsh Language Commissioner]].

=== ''{{lang|cy|Cymunedau Cynaliadwy}}'' (Sustainable Communities) ===

This group leads on a number of matters, including housing and planning policy. Since the 1980s the group has called for a {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20140326151715/http://www.cymdeithas.org/deddfeiddo Property Act]}} to increase the number of communities where Welsh is the main language of the area as well as tackling income inequality and environmental problems.

On 11 March 2014, the group published its own draft "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20200616112615/http://www.cymdeithas.org/dogfen/bil-eiddo-chynllunio-er-budd-ein-cymunedau-drafft-ymgynghorol/ Property and Planning Bill for the benefit of our communities (Wales) 2014]}}" which would enshrine the six main principles of its proposal for a Property Act as well as establishing the Welsh language as a statutory material consideration in the planning system.

=== ''{{lang|cy|Dyfodol Digidol}}'' (Digital Future) ===

This group campaigns for rights to see and hear the language. This includes campaigns for investment in {{lang|cy|Radio Cymru}} and S4C, as well as the presence of the Welsh language online.

=== ''{{lang|cy|Grŵp Addysg}}'' (Education Group) ===

[[Welsh medium education]] is available in most areas of Wales in the primary and secondary stages of school education. Welsh second-language [[General Certificate of Secondary Education|GCSEs]] are compulsory in English medium education. This group demands improvements and also massive expansion in further (college) and higher (university) education. This mainly includes a Welsh language federal college, which would be a multi-sited college that provides courses and resources in the medium of Welsh.