The Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, Daybreak Bowden, has as we speak launched a £5m Good Fundamentals tourism fund for 2023-2025.
Good Fundamentals is a capital fund to ship small-scale tourism infrastructure enhancements throughout Wales and is geared toward public, third sector and never for revenue organisations.
Earlier tasks funded by Good Fundamentals have included electrical car charging factors, improved bathroom and automotive parking amenities, accessible altering locations amenities and improved signage and interpretation panels.
Good Fundamentals may even help tasks that enhance accessibility at websites and people that make their locations extra environmentally sustainable.
2023 is Wales’ Yr of Trails which presents the tourism sector with a possibility to showcase points of interest, landscapes and shoreline by means of routes and trails. Good Fundamentals will encourage Native Authorities and Nationwide Parks to think about the whole customer expertise and the important infrastructure that makes a path expertise full, from pathways, to parking to creating amenities accessible for all.
On her first go to since assuming accountability for Tourism coverage inside the Welsh Authorities, the Deputy Minister, Daybreak Bowden visited Cosmeston Nation Park which has beforehand acquired Good Fundamentals funding. The Vale of Glamorgan acquired £122,124 through the first spherical of Good Fundamentals 2021/22 to develop the Customer Gateway venture which improved entry and pathways to Cosmeston Lake and jetty, together with including seating and shelter, new street entry and entrance and resurfacing the jetty and slipway.
The Welsh Authorities’s Good Fundamentals venture was the catalyst for additional on web site enhancements from the Vale of Glamorgan together with a brand new play space, web site for concessions, spherical home and studying amenities, and new branding, interpretation and signage all through.
Since venture completion the park has skilled a rise in customer numbers and its new additions have confirmed very talked-about with guests.
Deputy Minister, Daybreak Bowden mentioned:
“The tasks supported by means of the Good Fundamentals fund make an actual distinction. For this funding spherical, we’re looking for proposals that add worth to the customer expertise and that assist to construct a high quality vacation spot.
“Native tourism facilities have an enormous half to play in making a visit a memorable one. These amenities typically go unnoticed, however they’re an essential a part of a customer’s expertise and additionally profit those that reside within the space.”
Chief of the Vale of Glamorgan Council, Cllr Lis Burnett mentioned:
“The Council may be very happy with its nation parks, which provide residents and guests the chance to take pleasure in a big and various out of doors house.
“There are vary of options to take pleasure in at Cosmeston, together with various wildlife and open areas, picnic areas and a model new play space.
“This funding has allowed us to enhance the park additional by means of the Customer Gateway Undertaking. That has seen entry routes upgraded and new amenities added or refurbished all through the positioning.”
The time limit for expressions of curiosity is the 16 March – additional info out there on Finance | Enterprise Wales (gov.wales)
