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15 March Community Activity Day and Litter-Picking at Pontneddfechan

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SWOAPG is joining BBNPA and others in providing another ‘Community Activity Day’ for residents of Waterfall Country on Sun 15 March at Pontneddfechan Village Hall – with free activities provided by some of our Members. Please come and join us from 10am if you can help with some litter-picking and contribute to building positive relationships … Read more

Responsible Dog Walking

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This will be ‘preaching to the converted’ for Outdoor Instructors, but one of the Brecon Beacons Ambassadors, Tracy Purnell, has spent time producing the attached advice on dog walking and responsible dog owner behaviour. Tracy was inspired by the BBNPA’s Mountain & Moorland Ambassador course which has led to her to putting time and effort … Read more

Trees in Sychryd Gorge

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Many of you will already have seen Facebook posts showing tress and other debris in the Sychryd gorge. Here’s the latest report from Katie Lloyd of Princes’ Trust: “We’ve been in the Sychryd today [Tue 3 Mar]. Pools are all clear with the exception of the top pool. The tree on river left is still … Read more

SWOAPG e-mail address

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Apologies to anyone who has sent messages to mail@swoapg.com recently – there has been a problem with this e-mail address which we HOPE we have fixed! If you think we may have missed an important message from you, please try re-sending, copied to coordinator@swoapg.com. Thanks!

Attention all Technical Advisers!

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SWOAPG occasionally gets asked to recommend Technical Advisers. We avoid doing this, because we can’t be seen to favour any one of our Members over another. However, we would like to be able to point enquirers to a list of Technical Advisers for them to choose, so will be including the option in our 2020 … Read more

SWOAPG Membership Renewals

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SWOAPG will be sending out membership renewal requests next week. If you wish to maintain continuity in your Membership (and avoid receiving lots of reminders!), please respond to these and arrange payment by 31 March. If you are a gorge user, we will only send this season’s ID cards (which will be pale blue) once … Read more

Tree from Honddu has moved to Usk Bridge!

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The tree that was blocking the Honddu shifted in the floods last weekend; it’s now blocking the river-left arch of the main Usk bridge in Llanfaes. This should pose few problems, since in normal river levels, the flow normally dries under this arch. Thanks to Paul Lilygreen for this update.