For detailed information about any of the vacancies listed below, please click on the individual job title.

Assistant Swimming Development Coach
Pembrokeshire County Council
Closing date: Friday 31st august 2012

Part-Time Table Tennis Coaches
Table Tennis Association of Wales
Closing date: Friday 31st August 2012

Rowing Academy Coach
Welsh Rowing
Closing date: Friday 7th September 2012

Rowing Development Officer
Welsh Rowing
Closing date: Friday 7th September 2012

South Wales Club Development Officer
Welsh Sailing
Closing date: Friday 14th September 2012

PE & School Sport Manager
Neath Port Talbot County Council
Closing date: Monday 17th September 2012

Further information about the jobs listed above is also available on the recruitment page of our web site.

If you'd like to advertise a vacancy on our web site or in future editions of this e-newsletter, please email Paul Dancey or telephone Wendy on 029 2033 8237.

Details of future training/workshops for NGBs will be published in due course on the Training Programme page of our web site, when our 2012 training programme has been finalized.

Please send all articles for our web site or future editions of this newsletter to: paul-dancey@welshsports.co.uk

There will be a short meeting of the Welsh Sports Association's Outdoor Pursuits Group (OPG) immediately prior to this year's WSA AGM. The meeting will be held at 6.00pm on Monday 24th September at the Village Hotel & Leisure Club... more

A public consultation is under way on options for the future of the Community Facilities and Activities Programme. The Community Facilities and Activities Programme is a successful and popular Welsh Government programme which has helped to create and renew over 860 community facilities in every part of Wales since it began in 2002... more

The new 360 beach and watersports centre on Mumbles Road in Swansea, which is due for completion next month, has been awarded a grant of £25,000 by Sport Wales. The new beach front hub will be operated through a not-for-profit partnership between Swansea University and Bay Leisure, and will focus on three main beach sports and three main watersports - football, rugby, volleyball, kayaking, powerkiting and stand-up paddle boarding... more

A further public consultation on the creation of a Natural Resources Body for Wales got under way earlier this month. This latest consultation focusses on two key areas. The duties of the new body for the management of Wales’ natural resources, and the legal and working arrangements of the body... more

Young tennis players from all over Wales will be heading to Cardiff for the Welsh Junior National Championships. The tournament, which dates back to 1927, has attracted almost 250 entries, ranging from 8-and-unders Mini Tennis to adults, taking part in a tournament alongside the traditional Junior event. It starts on Bank Holiday Monday, August 27, with finals on Saturday September 1... more

A public consultation on the proposed £150m race track at Ebbw Vale has begun with an exhibition to outline the current plans for the site. The organization behind the scheme, the Heads of the Valleys Development Company, hope to transform 830 acres of Blaenau Gwent into the Circuit of Wales, a world-class automotive complex centred around a performance circuit... more

The Sunday Telegraph and Waitrose have launched the British Volunteer Awards to celebrate the vital role played in society by those who give their time and energy for free, as was so clearly demonstrated by the 70,000 cheerful, smiling volunteers who made such a strong impression at the recent London games. Britain has a wonderful network of volunteers, but they rarely get the public recognition they deserve... more

Gwent & South Wales Police Community Partnership Funding have produced a useful funding bulletin. This identifies grants that may be available to welsh sports organizations to support elements of their work that are not eligible for Sport Wales funding... more

The Annual General Meeting of the Welsh Sports Association will take place on Monday 24 September 2012 at 7.00pm at the Village Hotel & Leisure Club, 29 Pendwyallt Road, Coryton, Cardiff, CF14 7EF.... more

Around 530 Paralympic athletes and support staff from 15 nations have been based in Wales in the lead up to this year's Paralympic Games in London, attracted by the world class training facilities on offer. Australian, US and GB cyclists have been training at Newport Velodrome. Australian Paralympic cycling team section manager Murray Lydeamore commented: "Since we've been here we've had so much local interest, from local cyclists riding alongside our guys out on the road, to the public and disability organisations keen to watch our track sessions. It's a great atmosphere"... more

Excitement is mounting on the waterfront of Cardiff Bay in anticipation of the traditional finale to the Cardiff Festival, but this year the Cardiff Harbour Festival (Aug 31 - Sep 2) has gone to extremes, as it welcomes the Extreme Sailing Series – the UK leg of the world's most exciting inshore racing series to Cardiff Bay which features Welsh Olympic silver medallist Hannah Mills competing for Team Wales, and Windsurfing silver winner Nick Dempsey. The Extreme Sailing Series is high octane international sailing... more

UK Sport has confirmed the performance expectations for Britain’s Paralympic sports at the London 2012 Paralympic Games this summer. The goal that has been set is for the GB Paralympic team is to finish second in the medal table, with at least 103 medals from a minimum of twelve sports. Britain's Paralympians have a tough act to follow given the sensational achievements of the Olympic team, who finished in third place with 65 medals overall... more

The Welsh National Softball Team are looking for a company to sponsor them for the upcoming Softball World Series Tournament to be held at the Concorde Club in Cranford on the 15th - 16th September 2012... more

The spectacular closing ceremony, which was watched by around 26 Million TV viewers in the UK, finally brought down the curtain on what has been one of the most successful Olympic games ever for UK athletes. The 2012 London games saw TeamGB finish third in the medals table with a record breaking haul of 65 medals, made up of twenty-nine Gold, seventeen Silver and nineteen Bronze medals... more

Fourteen of Wales’ top young tennis players have been accepted to compete in the AEGON British Junior Tennis Championship – a tournament whose previous winners include Andy Murray and Elena Baltacha. The event, held at venues in Nottingham and Bournemouth, from Sunday August 19, brings together the top youngsters in each age category from across Britain... more

Around £469,000 taken from bank accounts that have remained dormant for 15 years or more will be used to support twelve youth sport and recreation projects in Scotland. Among those due to benefit are the Scottish Amateur Swimming Association who will receive £50,000... more

Despite pledging to protect school playing fields in England from developers, it has emerged that UK education secretary, Michael Gove, has approved 21 of the 22 requests to sell off school sports pitches in the two years since the coalition came to power. The Minister was later forced to admit that he had made a mistake and that the true number of sell-offs was actually 30... more

An agreement between Swansea University and the Swans will see the University's Fairwood playing fields transformed into a jointly-used Premier League-standard training facility. The facilities available will include eight full-size pitches, including two all-weather pitches... more

UK Sport have issued a statement supporting British Olympic Association Chairman Colin Moynihan's call for better recognition of the coaches working with athletes at this year's London Games, saying: "We wholly support the comments of British Olympic Association Chairman Colin Moynihan that the coach of the Olympic athlete is often the unsung hero of a great performance... more

The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage, Huw Lewis has announced five new appointments to the board of Sport Wales. Adele Baumgardt will become Vice Chair while Julia Longville, Janet Kingston, Johanna Lloyd and Peter King will become board members ... more

Mid Wales racing driver Ben Power has raced up the UK Legends Car Championship table after a superb performance at a televised event in Scotland. Power, aged 22, from Guilsfield, near Welshpool, was third overall on the first day's racing at Knockhill... more

The thousands of people involved in tennis around Wales are being asked to identify those who have excelled in the past year, as nominations are sought for the annual Tennis Wales Awards... more