Representing providers of Outdoor Adventurous Activities in South Wales and the Brecon Beacons
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
We’ve received the following update from Brecon Beacons National Park Authority – which although confirming that the access track to Loonies’ Leap is scheduled for repair, doesn’t actually commit to a timescale! We have asked NRW once again whether we can use the river-left path between the footbridges temporarily while the river-right track is closed, … Read more
We have received the following information that just might be of interest to a few SWOAPG Members (or someone you know!): “We are instructed to market the 6.6 acre site of the former HMS Cambria, Hayes Lane, Barry CF64 5XU incorporating a variety of buildings constructed by the Royal Naval Reserves as a training facility. … Read more
We have received the following update from the Outdoor Learning Association (OLA) Interim Management Team: “Hi folks, please find attached the latest update from OLA. This covers our work to date on how the organisation may look as well as a number of FAQs that we have been fielding over the last few months. As you … Read more