Covid-19 Support Resources from IOL
The Institute for Outdoor Learning (IOL) has gathered together a variety of resources, links and ideas to support the outdoor sector through the Covid-19 crisis – click here for details.
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Business Rate Grants in the Brecon Beacons National Park
We have received the following information from Brecon Beacons Tourism, which may be relevant to some SWOAPG Members: How Businesses Grants of £10,000 and £25,000 will be paid to qualifying businesses in each Local Authority in the Brecon Beacons National Park As part of the COVID-19 financial support scheme recently announced by UK Government, Local … Read more
A View from the SWOAPG Office…
The SWOAPG office doesn’t have any windows (it’s in my attic!), so I have to go outside to see the view – but what a view! It’s very strange to see the ridge of Pen-y-Fan and Corn Du on a sunny weekend day with no people queuing for the summit. But these are indeed strange … Read more
Summary of Government assistance to businesses, employees and the self-employed
Just in case any of you have missed the many recent announcements, we have put together a summary of the support available from Welsh and UK Governments to businesses, employees and the self-employed at this difficult time. SWOAPG would be interested to hear your experiences of using these various schemes so we can pass on … Read more
Emergency Measures to footpaths and car parks in the Brecon Beacons National Park
As most of you will be aware, following the irresponsible behaviour of some people last weekend, Brecon Beacons National Park Authority – working in cooperation with the local authorities and other partners – has closed areas of the National Park which are popular with visitors and which pose a risk for the transmission of coronavirus. … Read more
Technical Advisers
SWOAPG itself does not offer Technical Advice (for the likes of AALA inspections). However, we are occasionally asked to recommend Technical Advisers to our Members. Since we would not wish to favour one Technical Adviser over another, we are not able to make specific recommendations – but we are now listing on our website (https://swoapg.com/technical-advisers) … Read more
Forthcoming events from SWOAPG & our Members
In view of the current Covid-19 restrictions, SWOAPG is cancelling all its near-term events (including ‘drop-in surgeries’ for the community in Pontneddfechan) and we can assume that our Members will also be cancelling any events they had advertised with us in the next couple of months at least. We will therefore be suspending for the … Read more
WATO Position on Covid-19
Although we have already said we don’t want to inundate SWOAPG Members’ inboxes with yet more messages on the subject, we thought it was important to let you know the action that WATO (Wales Adventure Tourism Organisation – of which SWOAPG is one of the three Core Members) is taking to support your interests – … Read more
SWOAPG Membership Subscriptions
Many thanks to the one-third of SWOAPG Members who have already paid your annual subscriptions – this will already provide us with enough income to keep our Coordinator on-hand for the time-being. We do appreciate that we are asking for subscriptions at a time when many of you may already be struggling financially as a … Read more
AdventureSmartWales Update
AdventureSmartWales has published the attached document to help tourism business (including Outdoor Providers!) in Wales to “help your guests to be Adventure Smart!”. Please download and use widely!