Representing providers of Outdoor Adventurous Activities in South Wales and the Brecon Beacons
Many thanks to those of you who’ve already completed this questionnaire, but if you haven’t… Do you – or might you – employ freelance outdoor instructors in South Wales? If so… SWOAPG would like your views on additional services that we are considering and would be very grateful if you could spend a few minutes … Read more
The Outdoor Partnership and British Mountaineering Council are conducting a consultation regarding the feasibility of a community climbing wall being created in the Newport city area. To date, a consultation has been circulated within the local Newport climbing community who have shown support for the project. We are now looking to gather information and opinions … Read more
Many thanks if you’ve already completed this survey; the National Park Authority would be very grateful to have a few more responses by this Friday. Thanks! The Waterfall Country Partnership* is in the process of reviewing opportunities for securing investment within Waterfall Country in order to provide the infrastructure needed to cater for our visitors … Read more
The Welsh Government’s Flexible Skills Programme offers funding for staff development to businesses of all sizes, covering (among other things) developing advanced digital skills and supporting skills gaps and upskilling in the tourism sector (including outdoor instructor training!). For details including the Expression of Interest form, visit Flexible Skills Programme | Business Wales Skills Gateway. … Read more
In response to a request from SWOAPG Members, NRW has recently changed the entrances to the new changing screens at Dinas Rock – hopefully this will help to improve privacy. Unfortunately NRW are unlikely to be able to remove the trees in the Sychryd waterfall pools this season – simply because they have a long … Read more
Some SWOAPG Members might be interested in this opportunity from Dwr Cymru Welsh Water to run non-motorised watersports activities at Lower Lliw reservoir for 12 months – see documents attached below. Expressions of interest invited from today Deadline for submissions Friday 24th June 2022
The Waterfall Country Partnership* is in the process of reviewing opportunities for securing investment within Waterfall Country in order to provide the infrastructure needed to cater for our visitors in the long term. In order to inform future proposals we need the views of the range of activity providers who currently undertake activities within Waterfall … Read more
It’s getting busy in Waterfall Country! We appreciate that most of you are doing your best to have as little impact as possible – and that the sheer volume of tourists and their behaviour is the real problem (including disturbing nesting birds and incessantly building rock towers) – BUT… …we have also had reports of … Read more
The family who owns the farm with access to Ogof Y Ci had a bereavement recently and are holding a funeral on 6th June so have requested no caving to be done on this day. Please respect their wishes at this sensitive time.
Although the response to our online Code of Conduct training courses for both the Sychryd and Mellte gorges has been very positive, we appreciate that this method might not suit everyone, particularly Providers who are new to using the gorges. We are therefore considering offering a ‘face-to-face’ workshop consisting of a (dry) walk-through of the … Read more