Community interest company · Working across Wales

Wales is open in principle. We work on the practice.

Cambria Sports Culture runs community consultation, surveys routes, researches places and builds the resources that let people use them. Most of it is free at the point of use. All of it is in Welsh and English.

What we do See the work

The problem

The gap between a right of way and a walk

Most of rural Wales is accessible on paper. There's a line on the map, a legal right to walk it, and in theory that's the job done.

Then you get there.

The gate's tied shut with baler twine. The waymark rotted off its post in 2011. There's nowhere to leave a car without blocking a farm entrance, no signal to check anything, and the one description you found online was written by someone who last walked it in the other direction. So people who know the ground carry on using it, and everyone else stays home.

That gap is what we work on. Not by campaigning about it, particularly, but by doing the unglamorous part: walking the route, writing down what's actually there, and putting it somewhere people can find it.

Our flagship projects

Two public resources that came out of funded project work. We built them, we still run them, and both are free to use.

Walking routes across Wales

Wales Walks

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A walking guide covering the whole of Wales, free to use and built to work when your phone doesn't. It began as a Powys project and grew outwards, which is why the coverage is denser in mid Wales than it is in Pembrokeshire.

Every walk carries distance, ascent, an honest difficulty grade, terrain notes, parking, and whether you'll meet livestock. Where a route has been surveyed on the ground it says so. Where it hasn't, it says that too, and it doesn't invent turn-by-turn directions to fill the space. That decision cost us content and we'd make it again.

The whole thing installs to a phone and works offline, which matters more in Cwm Elan than it does in Cardiff.

Visit Wales Walks

History, landscape and settlement in Powys

Powys Heritage

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The published outcome of a funded research project into the heritage of Powys. Settlements, historic sites, thematic essays, period overviews, written in plain English with the sources named on every article.

The editorial line is that a claim either has evidence behind it or it's a tradition, and readers are entitled to know which. Where the local story and the archaeology disagree, the site says so. That occasionally means contradicting a tourist board.

All of it is licensed CC BY 4.0, so a community council can lift a paragraph for an interpretation panel without asking anyone's permission. Credit is the only condition.

Visit Powys Heritage

What we can do for you

Those two came out of funded projects. The same work is available as commissioned pieces for councils, developers, land managers and community groups.

Full detail on what we do

Clients

Who we work with

Public bodies, private developers and land managers, and the third sector, in roughly that order of volume. Councils and national park teams. Housing and energy schemes that need pre-application consultation done properly rather than ticked off. Estates, farm diversification and tourism operators. Charities, community groups and funded projects wanting a delivery partner who will still be there at the evaluation.

We are a small operation. That suits some briefs and rules out others, and we will tell you which is which early rather than late.

Working with us

Tell us what you're trying to sort out.

Most of our work starts with someone describing a problem rather than a project. A community that has stopped answering consultations. A path nobody can find. A leaflet ten years out of date. A stretch of ground people do not feel confident going onto. Start there and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.

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