Grand National winner Sam Waley-Cohen will judge the Supreme Horse Championship at next week’s Royal Welsh Show. The 2022 Grand National winner, Sam Waley-Cohen, will judge the Supreme Horse Championship at next week’s Royal Welsh Show. Now in its 102nd year, the show attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors to the heart of Mid Wales to celebrate the very best of Welsh and British agriculture from July 24-27. Equine competitions form a huge part of the event, with exhibitors traveling from across the globe to compete in the Royal Welsh judging rings. The Supreme Horse Championship is the pinnacle of the show, where the champions and reserve champions from in hand, ridden and driven classes go head-to-head in this final competition, held on the last day. Sam was the first amateur jockey to win the Grand National in 32 years, triumphing with 50-1 chance, Noble Yeats, having announced his retirement a week prior to the race. He is no stranger to the Grand National course, having ridden 41 races at Aintree and won seven. He was also second in the Grand National in when he was also nominated for the Spears Young Entrepreneur award. Looking forward to his visit to Builth Wells, he said: “It’s a great privilege to be a part of the Royal Welsh Show, especially to be judging such an important competition as the Supreme Horse Championship. “I am excited to come along to the show and to see so many amazing horses in the ring.” For more information about the 2023 Royal Welsh Show, or to purchase tickets, visit https://rwas.wales/royal-welsh/
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The 14 outlets featuring this year are:
Brecon Brewing Ltd, providing an award winning selection of craft beers, lager and cider on tap for your enjoyment. Cegin Manuka, a street food business, with a strong Thai influence with dairy and gluten free options. Utilising locally sourced meats to make delicious curries and stir-fries. Celtic Pie Company will be selling truly Welsh made pasties, produced in the heart of Carmarthenshire using tender beef and chicken and delicious vegetarian options using wholesome vegetables and Welsh cheeses. Cwm Farm, an award winning Welsh charcuterie and smokehouse. Hench Burgers, who use their own top-secret Welsh mince blend and perfected seasoning to produce a tender, juicy, meat or vegan crusted bun engulfed in cheese. Nixon Farms Pen-min-cae Welsh Black Beef and Lamb: Home produced Welsh Black beef, Welsh Lamb and Welsh Pork raised on the family farm just three miles from the Royal Welsh Showground. Radnor Hills Mineral Water Company Ltd who produce a range of premium presses that take their name from the family farm. They are crafted from a blend of pure Radnor Hills Spring Water and 100% natural ingredients. Ralph's Cider which makes traditional farmhouse cider. Ridiculously Rich by Alana will be selling a delicious range of handmade cakes, baked in Aberystwyth. The Artisan Cook who make stone baked pizza to order using simple ingredients, well executed. Voted best in Wales in Wales Online competition. The Rock & Scallop, providers of the famous Rock and Scallop Seafood rolls containing lobster and crab meat and locally sourced bread and grilled scallops. The Teifi Toastie Company who use the finest Welsh cheeses and breads to make mouth-wateringly good grilled cheese toasties! The Welsh Creperie Co who combine a love for Wales with a passion for authentic French style pancakes which are cooked to order with a range of delicious sweet and savoury options. Welsh Brew Tea which has been blending teas with wonderful Welsh water since 1989. Alongside a variety of different tea products, they supply a premium range of ground coffee and luxury drinking chocolate, with all products bilingually packaged. Within Gwledd | Feast will be working with the charity, Big Bocs Bwyd (Big Food Box) which operates ‘pay as you feel’ food banks from containers situated outside schools. The charity’s aim is to ensure that no child is hungry and that every child can learn how to make good food choices that enable them to thrive. Containers and children from six primary schools will be at the show to promote their actions, and how they are working to address food inequality and poor diet. Together with the delicious range of food outlets, the food village will also feature highly acclaimed Welsh musicians, such as Bronwen Lewis, the Welsh Whisperer and folk trio, Sorela. To find more about what’s in store at this year’s Royal Welsh Show visit https://rwas.wales/royal-welsh/ . Tickets are now available to buy online at https://rwas.ticketsrv.co.uk/events/ . The Coracle Fun Day on the Montgomery Canal at Welshpool on Saturday. Pictures: Alan Roberts. Children of all ages were messing about in boats on the Montgomery Canal last weekend when the Friends of the Montgomery Canal organised a free Coracle Fun Day in Welshpool. Assisted by Ironbridge Coracle Trust and Welshpool Canoe Club, a number of coracles and canoes were on hand for a range of activities. With a safety briefing, buoyancy aids and tuition, about 60 children and adults, many of whom were families, were able to try their hand at the challenge. Paddlers had time to gain basic skills in coracle handling and later were invited to join in coracle football, where canoes and kayaks acted as goalposts and retrieving ‘realistic’ fish from a canoe. Members of TRAMPS (Thursday Restoration and Maintenance Project Supporters who volunteer with the Canal and River Trust (CRT) also lent a hand with lifting, recovering and managing the event. The event was attended by local councillors who arrived on the Heulwen Trust trip boat and congratulated the Friends for working jointly with Powys Youth Service to encourage participation in the fun day, in line with the UK Government’s Levelling Up Campaign. Alan Roberts, from the Friends committee, who organised and led the event team, said: “This was the first time that we have run an event dedicated solely to coracles. We ran our free fun day for the enjoyment of the local population and to enhance awareness that the canal is a rich resource, particularly in Welshpool town centre. “A key objective of the committee is that more canal activities should be attractive to children and young people. Therefore, we are keen to engage families and young people, especially at a time when financial pressures can mean that expensive activities can be a difficult option.” Christine Palin, Friends of the Montgomery Canal chairman, said: “The revival of the Montgomery Canal can bring many benefits to the towns and villages along its route, conserving its rich heritage of locks, bridges and canalside structures and safeguarding its valuable plants and wildlife. “All this brings visitors to boost the local economy and gives residents and their families opportunities for recreation on the towpath and on the water. We were delighted, once again, to bring simple, water-based activities to Welshpool to show what the canal is about.” The Friends of the Montgomery Canal is part of the Restore the Montgomery Canal! Appeal to raise funds to continue restoration towards the Shropshire border at Llanymynech by volunteers. The appeal - https://localgiving.org/appeal/restorethemontgomerycanal/ - is promoted in partnership with the Shropshire Union Canal Society, the Inland Waterways Association’s Shrewsbury District & North Wales branch and Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust. To join the Friends and help promote the canal, visit https://themontgomerycanal.org.uk/join-the-friends-of-the-montgomery-canal/ . Michelin star chef Nathan Davies who will be headlining Lampeter Food Festival. Michelin star chef Nathan Davies headlines this year’s Lampeter Food Festival which will showcase the wonderful variety of local food and drink producers in Ceredigion and former Dyfed counties on Saturday, July 29. Held on the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) campus in Lampeter, the festival will be open free of charge from 10am until 5pm and is expected to attract around 10,000 visitors. Patrick Holden, CBE, founder and chief executive of the Sustainable Food Trust and local farmer and producer of Hafod cheese, will perform the official opening at 12.30pm. Using ‘Back to its Roots’ as its strapline is particularly appropriate for the festival at a time when sustainable food and farming have become even more important. The festival explores how the relationships between pasture and plate, veg plot and cooking pot and people and their community resources are key to closing the loop in sustainable food and farming. There will be a special ‘Blas Ein Bro’ feature this year with a dedicated area for ‘Taste of Local’ producers. The cookery corner kicks off at 10am with Nathan Davies, owner of SY23 in Aberystwyth, who will also be promoting his debut book ‘On Fire’. The cookery talent continues with the Tir Glas Young Chef competition winner, Slow Food Ambassador for Wales Gareth Johns, author and No Dig gardener Stephanie Hafferty, Huw Morgan from Coleg Ceredigion’s Catering College supported by current catering students, Alex Cook from Llandeilo and Gareth Richards from Cegin Gareth. Check in for any changes to the timetable at https://lampeterevents.co.uk/cornel-coginio--cookery-corner.html . Additional events will be held in the University Old Hall and Library to inform and inspire. The Old Hall programme includes: 9am - 11am: Ashley of Dancing Tree Sound is hosting a series of seated Wellness Gong Baths, to relax the body and quiet the mind. 11.30am - 12.15pm: Tir Glas staff members Carwyn Graves and Barny Haughton will host a Q&A session on the future of sustainable food and farming with an update on the developments. 1pm - 4pm: University departments are hosting The ‘Food Pirates’ charting a course for Sustainable Food Innovation and stirring up recipes for change. The Library programme is: 12.30pm - 4pm: Gwerth Gŵlan / The Worth of Wool (presentation by Deborah Mercer at 2pm). 12.30pm - 4pm: Special Collection Exhibition - A Feast from Nature. A children’s fun corner will be located near the Entertainment Marquee where visitors can choose from a range of musical interludes https://lampeterevents.co.uk/adloniant--entertainment.html . A festival raffle includes a top prize voucher worth £350 towards a Bluestone holiday, Sunday lunches for two at the Falcondale Hotel, Lampeter and the Wynnstay Hotel in Machynlleth, a copy of Davies’ debut book, a Cegin Gareth food hamper and an £80 voucher from the Harbourmaster Hotel, Aberaeron. The festival promises to be a great day out for all ages with ample parking on Pontfaen field and a level, short walk through the town to the festival location on campus. Parking is provided on-site for Blue Badge holders. For further information contact foodfest@lampeterevents.co.uk or visit our website www.lampeterevents.co.uk . Earlier this year, the Welsh Government called for views on its consultation on a statutory licensing scheme for all visitor accommodation providers in Wales. This public consultation sought views on how a licensing scheme could operate on a practical level. This closed on 17 March with more than 1,500 responses.
To supplement the main consultation, three engagement sessions were held in May. Invited key stakeholders from across the tourism industry gave feedback on specific technical aspects of the proposed scheme. Those who attended represented a significant number and variety of tourism businesses and organisations in Wales. The Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism has issued a written statement which gives an update on the statutory licensing scheme and shares the full consultation analysis and a report of the supplementary consultation discussions. The full written statement can be found here: Written Statement: Update on a statutory licensing scheme for all visitor accommodation providers in Wales (5 July 2023) | GOV.WALES Described as the ‘biggest step-change in community safety in a generation’, most streets in Wales that currently have a 30mph speed limit will switch to 20mph on Sunday, September 17.
Read more Arwyn Watkins, OBE, receives the Leader of the Year award from Brigadier Nick Thomas, CBE, from sponsor Veteran Trees, at the Welsh Veterans Awards. Culinary Association of Wales president Arwyn Watkins, OBE, has added another award to his growing list of honours. He won the Leader of the Year Award, sponsored by Veteran Trees, at this year’s Welsh Veterans Awards and was runner-up in Entrepreneur of the Year Award, sponsored by Pinnacle Document Solutions Group. The award was in recognition of Arwyn’s role as CAW president in leading the successful Team Wales bid to bring the Worldchefs Congress and Expo to the International Convention Centre Wales (ICC Wales), Newport in 2026. “The award was unexpected and it’s a great honour to win in such a strong category,” he said. “I do the voluntary job with the Culinary Association of Wales without thinking of accolades, but it’s nice to be recognised. “Many people wouldn’t know that I am a veteran and it’s only in recent years that I have reconnected with the veterans community. It’s turning out to be a memorable year, as I have been selected as one of 50 veterans from the Army Catering Corps for the Cenotaph March Past on Remembrance Sunday this year.” Passionate about developing chefs in Wales, Arwyn coached the Welsh Junior Culinary Team to a Culinary Olympics gold medal in 2004 and was appointed CAW president in 2015. Three years later, he received the Worldchefs Presidents Medal for promoting the advancement and profile of the culinary arts and profession in Wales. Arwyn is group executive chairman of Cambrian Training Company, Trailhead Fine Foods and Mid Wales Fayres, all based in Welshpool and Chartists 1770 at The Trewythen in Llanidloes. A farmer’s son from Llanwrtyd Wells, joined the Army as an apprentice chef in 1978 and has maintained his commitment to apprenticeship programmes ever since. On leaving the Army in 1992, he joined the Merchant Navy, working for Stena Line and became a catering college lecturer in Kent before returning to Mid Wales to join Cambrian Training Company in 1998. In 2002, he led a management buy-out of the company which has enjoyed considerable growth and success under his leadership. He is a key figure in the work-based learning sector in Wales, having previously served as chairman and chief executive and currently as a board member of the National Training Federation for Wales. In the New Year’s Honours List in 2018, he received an OBE for his services to education and training in Wales.
Food is a key element to the event and building on the success of the popular Food Hall, the new food village is set to be a great new attraction.
Within the new Welsh Food Village, the RWAS is proud to be working with the charity, Big Bocs Bwyd (Big Food Box), which aims to ensure that no child is hungry and that every child is able to learn how to make good food choices that enable them to thrive. Big Bocs Bwyd operate ‘pay as you feel’ food banks at around 50 primary schools across Wales where they promote healthy diets and deliver cooking and vegetable growing lessons. The scheme was initiated at Cadoxton Primary School where children and parents first opened the food shop in June 2020 in a shipping container outside of the school community centre. The school has been able to assist more than 60 other schools across Wales in setting up their own Big Bocs Bwyd shops to help struggling families. The winners of the five World’s Best prizes – for community collaboration, environmental action, innovation, overcoming adversity, and supporting healthy lives – will each receive 50,000 US dollars (£40,000). In partnership with the Royal Welsh Show, Big Bocs Bwyd containers and children from six primary schools will promote their actions and how they are working with partners, including Welsh Government and Public Health Wales, to address food inequality and poor diet. The collaboration involves independent food wholesaler, Castell Howell. Now celebrating its 35-year anniversary, Castell Howell Foods was founded by then dairy farmer Brian Jones, a former RWAS president, and is firmly rooted in agriculture and community with a strong charitable ethos. Castell Howell supplies 1,500 schools across Wales and feels a responsibility to the communities it serves to help address food inequalities. Corporate social responsibility manager, Edward Morgan, has been profoundly moved by his experience with Big Bocs Bwyd and is enthusiastic about bringing the charity to the Royal Welsh Show. “Against a backdrop of dialogue for sustainable agriculture, environmental concerns, supply chain challenges, food inequalities, ‘influencers’ and the urgent need to promote the food sector as a career choice, there has arguably never been a more important time for Welsh agriculture to reclaim some of the lost narrative on food production and dietary choices,” he said. “Child food inequality and poor diets are chronic problems in Wales. Many in the agricultural sector are somewhat removed from challenges faced by some of our urban communities. Likewise, many from our towns and cities are very much removed from agriculture and growing food. This is one reason why we are supporting Y Big Bocs Bwyd charity.” RWAS chief executive Aled Rhys Jones is keen to bring fresh elements to the show whilst keeping the traditional values and charitable objectives of the society. Collaborating with Big Bocs Bwyd in the new Welsh Food Village is a fantastic way of achieving this. “With Glamorgan being the Royal Welsh Show’s feature county this year, it is wonderful to have a school from the county taking such a prominent role,” he said. “I have been hugely impressed by the work of Cadoxton School and they are very worthy of the international recognition they have gained. “Combining food with education is an effective way of promoting healthier diets and I am looking forward to their programme of food demonstrations on the new entertainment stage at the food village.” For more information about the 2023 Royal Welsh Show, or to purchase tickets head to our website: https://rwas.wales/royal-welsh/. |
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