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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.
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The following courses are free for WSA members, but a cancellation fee may apply if you book a place and are later unable to attend the course.
Training places are however strictly limited and available on a first come first served basis.
Presentation Skills
27th October 2010
Centre for Business
Enterprise Way, Newport
Effective Communication Skills
2nd November 2010
Centre for Business
Enterprise Way, Newport
Influencing the Assembly
8th November 2010
WCVA
Baltic House, Cardiff
Emergency First Aid at work
9th November 2010
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, Dolgellau
H R for Line Managers
9th November 2010
Centre for Business
Enterprise Way, Newport
Introduction to Campaigning & Lobbying
11th November 2010
WCVA Media Resource Centre
Llandridod Wells
Emergency First Aid at Work
19th November 2010
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, St Asaph
Finance for Non Financial Managers
23rd November 2010
Centre for Business
Enterprise Way, Newport
Microsoft Power Point
29th November 2010
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, St Asaph
Team Working
29th November 2010
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, St Asaph
Effective Minute Taking
30th November 2010
Centre for Business
Enterprise Way, Newport
Train the Trainers
30th November 2010
Centre for Business
Enterprise Way, Newport
Presentation Skills
2nd December 2010
Centre for Business
Enterprise Way, Newport
Leadership Skills
7th December 2010
Centre for Business
Enterprise Way, Newport
Appraisal & Performance Management
15th December 2010
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, Dolgellau
Microsoft Word – Intermediate
17th January 2011
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, St Asaph
Team Working
19th January 2011
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, Dolgellau
Microsoft Publisher
20th January 2011
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, St Asaph
Influencing the Assembly
25th January 2011
WCVA
Baltic House, Cardiff
Introduction to Campaigning & Lobbying
27th January 2011
WCVA
Baltic House, Cardiff
Effective Minute Taking (1/2 day)
14th February 2011
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, St Asaph
Appraisal & Performance Management
17th February 2011
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, St Asaph
Introduction to Employment law (1/2 day)
22nd February 2011
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, St Asaph
Time Management (1/2 day)
24th February 2011
Business Point
Coleg Llandrillo, St Asaph
Introduction to Equality & Diversity
17th March 2011
WCVA
Baltic House, Cardiff
To book a place on any of these courses, please telephone Wendy on 029 2033 8237 or send an email to Wendy Yardley.
Full details of the free courses available to NGBs can also be viewed on the Training Programme page of our web site.
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Overseas Expeditions Grants
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The WSA has long recognized that grounds breaking overseas expeditions play an important part in the development of outdoor pursuits in Wales, and each year invites applications for grant aid for Welsh Members of eligible overseas expeditions.
Traditionally, applications come from those taking part in mountaineering, caving, cave diving, canoeing, rowing and paragliding expeditions. But the WSA is always willing to consider applications from other outdoor activities, providing the planned expedition is both ground breaking and likely to enhance the development of that activity.
The funding available is limited, and all applications will be considered on merit and must be supported by the appropriate National Governing Body. Applications for expeditions departing in 2011/12 must be completed and returned by 31st December 2010.
Further information is available on the Overseas Expedition Grants page of our web site.
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Please send all articles for our web site and future editions of this newsletter to: paul.dancey@welshsports.org.uk
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Welcome to the September 2010 issue of the WSA e-newsletter where the emphasis is on recent sporting achievement, and hopes for next month's Commonwealth Games in Dehli.
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Crisis eases at the Dehli games
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With the very future of this year's Commonwealth Games in Dehli seeming to be in the balance earlier this week, local organizers have now offered guarantees about safety and improvements to the athletes' village. The Delhi Government, led by chief minister Sheila Dik****, has also offered an assurance that there will be "concerted action" to resolve the outsanding issues.
Reacting to the latest developments, teams from Wales and Scotland have announced that they are heartened by the news, and have been given confidence by the organisers' assurances.... more |
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Wales send a big squad to Melbourne Commonwealth Championships
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| When Wales gather in India, another team will be over in Australia, the country which hosted the last Commonwealth Games in 2006. Team Wales' fencing side will be taking part in their own Commonwealth Championships which runs in parallel to the main event... more |
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Legend Jones runs the rule over fighters
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| When Joe Calzaghe hung up his gloves as a world boxing champion, it was unclear where the next great from Wales' long tradition of pugilists would come. One such boxer could step onto the national stage in Delhi next month...more |
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Jenny can’t wait to do well in Delhi
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| Wales has produced some outstanding Paralympians over the years. Athlete Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson and swimming ace David Roberts stand out with a multitude of gold medals... more |
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Harrison and Doull produce the goods in 30th Junior Tour of Wales
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Sam Harrison proved he is a rider with an lot of talent as he prepared for the Commonwealth Games by finishing second in this year's 30th anniversary Junior Tour of Wales around the heads of the valleys last month... more
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How Wales is aiming for medals as they take cycling’s revolution by the scruff of the neck
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Once, people pedalling bikes in competitive sport was treated as one of those 'minor' sports that were inhabited only by the enthusiastic. But cycling now is big business - and Wales is right alongside England as the British country which has embraced it like no other... more
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Scudamore has mixed feelings about winning and losing in Singapore
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Wales' Carian Scudamore was left with mixed feelings at the Youth Olympic Games last month. Scudamore, 17, was overjoyed to be named in the European equestrian squad for the Games in Singapore which had taken ten years to put together... more
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Women look to build in Delhi
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Sarah Thomas has been a shining light for Welsh women's hockey in the past years. Thomas, from Aberdare, was in the Great Britain squad that took part in the Beijing Olympics two years ago. However, now the 29-year-old will have a highlight of her career, that of wearing the Welsh jersey, along with 16 other members of the squad, at next month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi... more
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Terrific Summer for Monmouth Rowers
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Monmouth Rowing Club made a giant splash this summer, winning 11 championship medals, including its first British open title and the crown of UK’s top veteran club. One of the best seasons in its 81-year history was topped off by gold for Alex Butler, Louis Patterson and Tom Penny, plus Hereford RC’s Jamie Coombes, in the men's quadruple sculls at the British Championships in Glasgow... more
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Wales on equal footing with the world now
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Wales will go into the Commonwealth Games Sevens on an equal footing with the three big southern hemisphere rugby powers. Their World Cup victory in Dubai 18 months ago surprised many people in the game and now they will return to the scene of that triumph in the build-up towards the Delhi event... more
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Sir Terry’s dream is set to come to life
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The teams are named and the dream of Sir Terry Matthews to bring Tiger Woods, arguably the greatest golfer of all time, to the Celtic Manor Resort has been achieved. Between October 1-3 Woods will lead the American charge for the Ryder Cup... more
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Gingell re-appointed as a world referee
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Top class referees can fly the globe but not even rugby's great 'man in the middle' Nigel Owens could rival the places Maesteg's Roy Gingell has visited. Gingell, 48, has just been appointed for another three years as a squash World Referee... more
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Carlin aiming ‘for the top’
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Welsh swimmers have really thrown themselves into the national spotlight. David Davies, of course, is renown for his silver medal in the 10km Open Water event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But Swim Wales has grown far beyond a single person carrying the flag for a nation... more
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Teenage stars are batting well for the nation
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The young generation will be given their chance to shine around the table tennis arena in Delhi next month as the nation prepares for a new era in the sport. Wales have had some outstanding players but the loss from the Games of national number one Adam Robertson... more
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Jade Jones really does get a kick out of her sport
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The 17-year-old is on course to become a real star in the martial art of Tae Kwon Do as early as the 2012 London Olympic Games. Jones, who received the Welsh Rising Stars Award for July earlier this month from UWIC principal David Cobner, lauded national glory in August when she went to the first Youth Olympics in Singapore and came home with a gold medal... more
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Cyclists keep up the Welsh tradition of producing stars
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We know of Nicole Cooke and Geraint Thomas spearheading the Welsh cause in cycling across the globe. And the team which is going to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi next month will contain a lot of those late teenage stars who will be following in their footsteps... more
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The end of an era as Breeze bows out
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To many other people, Michaela Breeze is the weightlifter who went through an extraordinary pain barrier in the 2006 Beijing Olympic Games to complete her sets of lifts. However, Welsh sports people know Breeze as more than that - her Commonwealth Games' successes speak for themselves... more
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Morse rising to the top of British throwers
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Name some great British throwers in athletic events. The chances are that Steve Backley, Mick Hill, Tessa Sanderson and Fatima Whitbread will spring to mind, all javelin experts. But name someone on the heavy end of things - those who take part in the hammer, discus or shot - and they are not quite so easy to slip off the tongue... more
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It's a golden peformance for Welsh Gymnasts
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The Welsh Women's Gymnastics team started the 5th UK School Competition in Newcastle with their eyes firmly focussed on the medals. 4 Golds on offer and took all 4! Olympic hopeful Venus Romaeo took Gold on Vault & Bars... more
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Sport Wales Coach of the Year 2010
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A final reminder that nominations for Sport Wales Coach of the year awards will close on the 1st October, so there's still time to nominate your coach for one of these prestigious awards... more
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