OPAL Survey Training from National Museum Wales

OPAL surveys are entry level citizen science surveys and feature commonly found wildlife like worms, sycamore leaves, pond invertebrates, lichens, bugs and trees. They encourage people to observe and record the state of the environment and help them to find out how healthy it is. You can see them in detail on www.opalexplorenature The National … Read more

CADW Adventures

CADW were particularly interested in holding events at their sites, specifically Caerphilly Castle and Raglan Castle, in the year of Adventure. In North Wales Snowdonia Active are partnering with CADW on some events such as taking a climbing wall to Denbigh Castle. CADW would be really keen to hear from any activity providers who would … Read more

Weekend of Adventure April 2nd and 3rd

The Great Weekend of Adventure is an opportunity just after Easter to inspire visitors and locals to have an adventure in Wales. Focussing on one specific weekend brings the whole industry together and gives a strong message to the media that Wales is most definitely the place to be for adventures. Over to you to … Read more

CONSULTATION ON REFORMING THE WATER ABSTRACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN WALES

In 2013 the Welsh and UK Governments issued a joint consultation on proposals for abstraction reform. We received a wide range of views and broad support for our proposals and in 2014 we published our joint summary of consultation responses. We have continued working with interested parties since then to develop these proposals further. The … Read more

BMC Hillwalking Event

BMC South Wales Area Hill Walking Afternoon Location: Pont Ar Daf car park, A470 nr Storey Arms, Brecon Type of Event: Meet Members and non-members of the BMC are welcome to join us on a walk around Pen Y Fan and Corn Du on Saturday 6thFebruary 2016. In addition to having a great afternoon in … Read more

Year of Adventure Information

There’s a link to the content plan at the bottom of this page. http://gov.wales/topics/tourism/year-of-adventure-2016/year-of-adventure-marketing/?lang=en It gives the broad idea of the monthly themes that VW’s social and web content will be following.