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

Competitions Officer
Welsh Netball Association
Closing date: Thursday 27th September 2012

Powys Netball Development Officer
Powys County Council
Closing date: Thursday 27th September 2012

Glamorgan Valleys Netball Development Officer
Welsh Netball Association
Closing date: Thursday 27th September 2012

South East Wales Netball Development Officer
Welsh Netball Association
Closing date: Thursday 27th September 2012

Performance Pathway Co-Ordinator
Welsh Netball Association
Closing date: Thursday 27th September 2012

Sports Development Officer
Football
Closing date: Friday 28th September 2012

Casual Sports Assistant
University of Wales Newport
Closing date: Friday 28th September 2012

Chairman
Welsh Triathlon
Closing date: Sunday 30th September 2012

Directors
Welsh Triathlon
Closing date: Sunday 30th September 2012

National Optimist Squad Head Coach
Welsh Yachting Association
Closing date: Friday 5th of October 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

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

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, 29 Pendwyallt Road, Coryton, Cardiff, CF14 7EF... more

The Welsh Sports Association responds to government consultations on a range of matters which could affect the sport and outdoor pursuits sector generally and our member NGBs in particular. We regularly meet with not only Sport Wales but also with Welsh Government departmental civil servants and ministers themselves... more

On the 10th September 2012 the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 introduced key changes to the current disclosure and barring scheme, and sports clubs and governing bodies should ensure that they are familiar with the changes introduced, and aware of the impact they are likely to have on their organizations and the way they currently operate... more

British climber Fran Brown has won the female physical disability class at the 2012 World Para Climbing Championships in Paris. Twenty seven year old Fran grew up in Cornwall where she developed a passion for rock climbing. She later moved to Cardiff for University, before starting work as a theatre lighting technician in London's west end. Five years ago she was involved in an industrial accident... more

Windsurfers the Reservoir Dogs retained their Welsh title by the narrowest of margins in a thrilling finale and will go on to represent Wales in the Team 15 (T15) Champions Cup Final in October. They claimed the final event, at Llandegfedd Reservoir, making best use of home advantage to put them into a tie-break with Mumbles Mutineers... more

North Wales' development as a rugby union base has been further enhanced with the announcement that major internationals are coming their way in November. It is part of a drive to bring the thousands of players and spectators from across the north of the Principality nearer to the national game... more

Wales' Olympic and Paralympic heroes were given an incredible Welcome Home from sports fans from across the Principality at The Senedd this month. In total, Wales won seven Olympic and 14 Paralympic medals in London and many of the athletes were in Cardiff Bay to receive the praise of Wales Government Presiding Officer Rosemary Butler, First Minister Carwyn Jones and the head of Sport Wales Professor Laura McAllister. Outside on the steps of The Senedd was a male voice choir, a brass band and some of the army of Games Maker volunteers who were in London and have been highly praised for their efforts during the festivals of sport... more

Sarah Thomas took a well-earned break in America this month after her Olympic Games exploits with the Great Britain team. But the bronze medal-winning star from Aberdare believes the game in Wales can benefit enormously from the momentum that has come here via London... more

Mark Colbourne's name was flashed around every house in the country and his picture portrayed in countless newspapers. The Tredegar 42-year-old's story, of how he fell to earth with such a bump while paragliding off the Gower that he nearly died and was left with Dropfoot, has been recounted quite a few times in the last months... more

Cardiff-born Tom James put his name alongside the rowing legends of Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent by winning a second Olympic Games gold medal in London. But the 28-year-old, whose parents live in Wrexham and who won his gold medals in the coxless four at Beijing 2008 and this year at Eton Dorney, has warned not to let London 2012 become a happy memory in the future... more

Welsh athletes are very much near the top of Team Sky's hit-list, according to team principal Dave Brailsford. And the man who masterminded Britain's outstanding cycling successes over the last few years believes Cardiff's Luke Rowe has all the attributes to go places in the future... more

Wales Rugby League president Mike Nicholas has been honoured for his five decades of service to the sport in the Principality with two major awards this year. Back in January, the Port Talbot-born former hooker and Wales international was inducted into the Rugby Football League's Roll of Honour... more

Leading distance runner Alex Hains hopes to be returning to the road in earnest soon after suffering a prolapsed disc in his back - with specific targets in mind for the future. Even when he has been previously injured, the 29-year-old has managed to do some sort of training, whether it has been in the swimming pool or in the gym... more

Wales' top male player has backed the worldwide drive to make squash an Olympic Games sport in eight years time. Leading players and officials around the world are putting pressure on the International Olympic Committee to give them a chance in the 2020 Games... more

Tony Smith, Brian Dreyer and Derek Jones were crowned Welsh Triples champions after winning their title at the 34th Wenvoe Welsh Open in a busy August for Petanque players throughout the Principality.... more

Commonwealth Games medallist Carys Parry (Photo courtesy Gary Mitchell) put away her spikes and slipped on a pair of boots last weekend as Wales Rugby League launched a new women's team aiming for glory at next year's World Cup. Parry, 27, won silver in the women's hammer at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealths and is the Welsh record holder... more

The start of the new fencing season in Britain has already brought Welsh success in the first two big open competitions.Pride of place goes to epeeist David Gregory, from Wrexham but now representing Chester Academy, who took gold on the opening weekend of the season in the Essex Open in Colchester... more

When Frenchwoman Marie Chevalier came to Wales on a gap year and decided she loved the country so much she wanted to stay, there was one more thing she craved - to play her favourite sport. It must have been like a Welsh native being in India, China or Indonesia without playing rugby but Marie decided she was not going to miss out... more

No other country in the world plays more or is renown more for table tennis than China. So when four Welsh youngster had the chance to fly over there for two weeks, just hitting against any reasonable person must have been like a master-class. Now those four teenagers are going to bring their experiences back to Wales and, hopefully, build on them towards bigger things in the future... more