Representing providers of Outdoor Adventurous Activities in South Wales and the Brecon Beacons
SWOAPG_admin Please below a message from the AdventureUK Board regarding the work they have been doing to create an alternative accreditation scheme to AALA and a request to complete an online survey: We realise that many of us are currently very focussed on recovery from the pandemic and for many these are still difficult times. However, … Read more
The Welsh Government has launched a public consultation today on proposals to give local authorities the powers to introduce a visitor levy. The levy would be a small charge paid by people staying overnight in accommodation in Wales. Each local authority in Wales will have the power to decide if they want to introduce a … Read more
We have received the following notice from BBNPA: “Cwm Porth car park and toilets will remain open on Monday 19th September but the shop will be closed and no staff will be working on the day. “On Monday 24th October and Tuesday 25th October we will be carrying out cliff safety inspections around the main … Read more
This message from AHOEC is relevant to any Providers who handle school residential trips: it’s asking for your support in lobbying Senedd members to support a bill to “make an outdoor education residential visit of one week mandatory for every child and young person at school in Wales at some point in their school journey” … Read more
Many thanks to those who were able to attend the outdoor sector update meeting on 7 Sep. Thanks also to Mike Rosser & Martin Smith for their presentations. We’ve attached Mike’s presentation regarding the development of ‘Option 3’ and the HSE review of AALA. AdventureUK, the body behind the Option 3 proposal, will be releasing … Read more
The Wales Adventure Tourism Organisation (WATO) is hosting a virtual outdoor sector update meeting at 7pm on Wednesday 7th September 2022 to which all Providers are invited (with apologies for the short notice). The focus of the updates will be on: HSE review of Adventure Activity Licensing and the development of Option 3 Developments of the … Read more
The latest cave radon data is now available on Caving Resources web-page. Many thanks to Rich Hill for supplying this data.
We have discovered today that filming is taking place at Morlais Quarries again this week so the site is unavailable for climbing until Mon 5 Sep.
Blue Ocean Activities found a green instructor’s helmet at Dinas Rock last month – please contact them on 07557913809 / 07710981757 if you think it might be yours!
…for a recent flurry of identical (or very similar) e-mails from us: our automated newsletter software recently updated itself with an unexpected configuration change which we hope we’ve now sorted – but please bear with us if you continue to get a few more repetitive Daily Alerts: we’ll do our best to fix the problem … Read more