Valleys Regional Park - Parc Rhanbarthol y Cymoedd

MEETINGS DIARY

January 2012
Ionawr 2012

Partnership and
Subgroups

Environmental
Projects

Heritage, Events
and Interpretation

Community Tourism

WECAN
project

VRP
Newsletter

CROESO - WELCOME

Valleys Regional Park is an exciting, dynamic initiative to co-ordinate, drive and promote activities related to the environment and heritage and associated tourism activities across the valleys of south Wales, working in conjunction with the Welsh Assembly Government’s Heads of the Valleys and Western Valleys Regeneration Programmes, with marketing through the Valleys ‘Heart & Soul’ campaign, to change the reality and perceptions of the Valleys as a highly-desirable place to live, work and visit.

Over forty partners are involved to deliver these activities in a more effective, collaborative approach, both cross-sector and cross-boundary, towards a regional vision.

The overall objective is to enhance and promote the Valleys’ outstanding environmental and cultural assets thereby helping to regenerate the area.

The partnership’s activities cover the area that was essentially the former south Wales coalfield, defined as the Valleys Regional Park in the Wales Spatial Plan.

Stretching from the western borders of Monmouthshire in the east to the former anthracite-mining valleys of Carmarthenshire in the west, and bounded by the Brecon Beacons National Park to the north and the major cities of Cardiff, Swansea, and Newport to the south, it covers an area of over 200,000 hectares and is home to over 1 million people, approximately a third of the Welsh population.

This website is primarily intended to provide information for Valleys Regional Park partners.

The visitor information website - www.thevalleys.co.uk - provides full details on what’s on in the valleys, what to see and and do, and where to stay and eat.