It might be an idea, Lancashire Lad, to have a look at Manchester's Central Library. Certainly in the late 1960s and early 1970s an annexe of the Library did 'Linguaphone' type language courses, which is where I learned yn siarad Cymraeg.

There might still be Cymdeithes yn Ddraig Goch at Manchester Met. There certainly was at Liverpool JMU.

No, I am not a native Welsh speaker, as I know Mary Humphreys to be (sut mae, gyfeill ?) but with a name like mine I couldn't really not speak Welsh ; and I had to make some effort for the number of times I was asked 'fedrwych chi'n siarad Cymraeg ?'

Go for it - you will, I promise, never regret it.