Representing providers of Outdoor Adventurous Activities in South Wales and the Brecon Beacons
From the IOL: “The latest outdoor learning sector impact report has just been published today. It was designed to provide insight into the breadth of outdoor learning activity being used by schools and colleges during periods of Covid related constraints in the past year. “The data is presented for the UK as a whole with … Read more
Just in case you haven’t already seen it, the Welsh Government made the following announcement yesterday that may offer a glimmer of hope for residential centres (although we’re still waiting for news on when residential school visits will once again be allowed): “Today we are pleased to jointly announce that a fund will be established … Read more
A few of our Members have been having trouble logging-in to our new training system, so we thought it would be worth sending this brief advice note in case this affects you! The Learning Management System which hosts our training is different to our Membership System – so even though you may already have a … Read more
Many thanks to those instructors who’ve already started (or completed!) SWOAPG’s new online gorge Code of Conduct training. This is just a reminder / clarification of all the steps you need to take before we can consider you to have completed the training: Complete the course Introduction to the Codes of Conduct for Gorge-Walking in … Read more
To all Full SWOAPG Members: Many thanks to those of you who’ve already paid your membership and/or started (or completed!) our new online gorge Code of Conduct training. This is just a reminder / clarification of all the steps you need to take before we can issue your gorge ID cards for this year: Pay … Read more
Here’s the latest information from Welsh Government – the key point for most Outdoor Providers is that “Organised activities (30 outdoors, 15 indoors) will be considered as part of the 22 April review” – which suggests that the end of April is the earliest we can expect any kind of ‘normal’ outdoor activity involving adult … Read more
We have received the following update from IOL: “The dialogue with Department for Education remains constructive and supportive of a change to guidance for school visits, both day based and residential. It is now apparent that guidance will not be issued before Monday 22nd March. The Department for Education team are very aware of the … Read more
Tuesday 30th March 11.00am-12.30pm, a virtual event on Zoom. Brecon Beacons National Park Authority and Brecon Beacons Tourism are inviting accommodation and hospitality providers to come along and make “connexions” between activity and experience providers. You may already have partnerships or networks in place, but there might be some businesses that you are unaware of. … Read more
We have received the following message from Way2Go Adventures, suggesting that VAT-registered Providers contact the Federation of Small Businesses to help them lobby for a reduction in VAT rate due to the impact of Covid on our sector: “This may be interest to SWOAPG members that are VAT registered and who fall into the Tourism … Read more
Many thanks to those of you who’ve responded to our request for contributions to cave Radon monitoring. We’ve already had around £800 pledged to support this work, but it’s not too late to join in – please contact coordinator@swoapg.com if you’d like to contribute to one or more dosimeters. NB contributions need to reach Richard … Read more