FOLLOWING a request from the Save Withybush Action Team (SWAT), Fishguard and Goodwick Town Council has agreed to donate some money towards transportation.
The group had requested £450 to fund the cost of one of 20 coaches which will transport 1,000 people up to Cardiff on March 5 to take part in a mass protest outside the Senedd.
The campaigners are calling for the protection of essential services at Withybush Hospital such as the Special Care Baby Unit.
Last month the Health Minister Mark Drakeford approved Hywel Dda University Health Board’s controversial plans to close the SCBU and create a midwife-led maternity unit at Withybush Hospital.
At last Tuesday’s town council, Councillor Mike Mayberry gave an update on the most recent financial committee meeting.
He said the committee had proposed paying half of the £450 request, while Cllr Alex Allison suggested they just pay the shortfall as SWAT was already charging people £10 a head to go on the coach.
The town clerk Sarah McColl-Dorion explained that not everyone would be paying, such as big families and people who could not afford it.
The deputy mayor Cllr Mike Lloyd said: “We should be seen to be doing something.”
The proposal to pay half of the £450 was backed unanimously by councillors.
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