Develop an / Visitor Management Partnership’: is a need for the outdoor ‘Access sector to have better links with environment sectors and understand access and sustainability; People/organisations need to understand issues around nature, transport, energy and waste, need all to know wildlife is declining. There is also a real need to continue to maintain accessible network of paths, get funding to create grid of multi used routes. Note: This is already done regionally by NPAs / NGBs and the Charter Groups. Better funding for Tourism: Increase tourism budget in Wales, not have it slashed. Tourism is so important to the economy of Wales. Greater appreciation of value in North Wales as a tourism venue as WG funding is generally confined to South Wales. What can be done in the next year? (Top 5) Explore ways of outdoor professionals to deliver preventative activity for health in off season/throughout the year. Recognising opportunities for improving use of the outdoors amongst disabled people and women and girls look at the model developed by the Outdoor Partnership. – Developing a platform to delivering the key principles’. Look at the Wales Adventure ‘6 Tourism Organisation and The Outdoor Partnership’s role in this. Develop an active partnership across all sectors. Encourage more primary schools to engage in Outdoor Awards delivering – environment skills, outdoor skills and life skills. Post workshop suggestions On departure, delegates were asked to submit ideas for immediate action and many people availed themselves of the opportunity to put forward ideas. These are reproduced in Appendix 2. Some of these ideas clearly relate specifically to the points listed above. Discussion In the following section, the facilitators further distil the suggestions and discussion raised by the workshops into key consideration points for public sector policy makers and those directly involved with the outdoor sector. Key points for public sector policy makers The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 imposes a duty on many public sector bodies to take account of the well-being of future generations when making decisions. Consequently, it provides a useful framework for assessing the relevance of the points arising from the conference for public sector policy makers. The Act covers seven key goals. These are listed below, together with key points which have emerged from the conference which relate to that goal. A prosperous Wales
Develop an ‘Access / Visitor Management Partnership’: is a need for the outdoor sector to have better links with environment sectors and understand access and sustainability; People/organisations need to understand issues around nature, transport, energy and waste, need all to know wildlife is declining. There is also a real need to continue to maintain accessible network of paths, get funding to create grid of multi used routes. Note: This is already done regionally by NPAs / NGBs and the Charter Groups. Better funding for Tourism: Increase tourism budget in Wales, not have it slashed. Tourism is so important to the economy of Wales. Greater appreciation of value in North Wales as a tourism venue as WG funding is generally confined to South Wales. What can be done in the next year? (Top 5) Explore ways of outdoor professionals to deliver preventative activity for health in off season/throughout the year. Recognising opportunities for improving use of the outdoors amongst disabled people and women and girls – look at the model developed by the Outdoor Partnership. Developing a platform to delivering the ‘6 key principles’. Look at the Wales Adventure Tourism Organisation and The Outdoor Partnership’s role in this. Develop an active partnership across all sectors. Encourage more primary schools to engage in Outdoor Awards – delivering environment skills, outdoor skills and life skills. Post workshop suggestions On departure, delegates were asked to submit ideas for immediate action and many people availed themselves of the opportunity to put forward ideas. These are reproduced in Appendix 2. Some of these ideas clearly relate specifically to the points listed above. Discussion In the following section, the facilitators further distil the suggestions and discussion raised by the workshops into key consideration points for public sector policy makers and those directly involved with the outdoor sector. Key points for public sector policy makers The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 imposes a duty on many public sector bodies to take account of the well-being of future generations when making decisions. Consequently, it provides a useful framework for assessing the relevance of the points arising from the conference for public sector policy makers. The Act covers seven key goals. These are listed below, together with key points which have emerged from the conference which relate to that goal. A prosperous Wales