Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales

The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has been active in Wales for over 70 years. It believes that the open spaces and beauty of the Welsh countryside underpin everything else, economy, community and culture.

The CPRW actively campaigns to protect and enhance the landscape of Wales including the retention of vernacular architecture particularly farm buildings that are important in their landscape context. We aim to educate people about all aspects of landscape protection and to influence opinions and attitudes in support of these objectives.

We would welcome new members to our branch and our Secretary Mr R J Simpson (Tel: 02920 891165) would be please, to give out further information to prospective members.

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Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)

The Centre for Alternative Technology is concerned with the search for ecologically sustainable technologies and ways of life. As a display and education centre, researcher and information provider, CAT aims to inform and enable people to reduce their impact on the Earth.

Europe's leading eco-centre, CAT has established a reputation as a leading solutions driven environmental charity. Situated on a disused quarry on the southern orders of the Snowdonia National Park in Mid Wales, the 40-acre site provides a living and working example of sustainable future. Working in harmony with nature, CAT tests, lives with and displays renewable energy sources, energy conservation, environmental buildings, organic growing and alternative sewage systems.

CAT welcomes 70,000 visitors a year and employs a highly qualified core-staff group of 40 environmentalists. Since opening to the public in 1975, its activities have widened to encompass a variety of specialised services including: visitor centre management; information and consultancy provision; research and innovation; education programmes for schools, universities and businesses; residential courses; publishing and mail order. The Centre has a holistic approach to its work, integrating ideas and practice relating to land use, shelter, energy conservation and use, diet and health, waste management and recycling. Through its resident community and work organisation, CAT is also committed to the implementation of co-operative principles and best achievable environmental practices.

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Council for British Archaeology

CBA Wales/Cymru is a national group of the Council for British Archaeology representing the interests of the historic environment in Wales. The CBA is an educational charity that promotes knowledge, appreciation and care of the historic environment for present and future generations on a UK-wide basis. It has a membership of over 500 heritage organisations and c.10,000 subscribing individuals of all ages. CBA Wales/Cymru has nearly 560 members (individual and institutional, based both inside and outside Wales). Its 77 institutional members represent national, regional and local bodies concerned with the whole historic environment, encompassing the state, professional, academic, museum and voluntary sectors. Its 512 individual members include both professional and non-professional archaeologists with a wide range of interests and experience across the whole range of the historic environment, from the earliest times to the present day. The concerns of CBA Wales/Cymru include the legal and administrative framework for exploration and protection of archaeological sites and landscapes of all kinds and dates, along with the special characteristics of the historic environment in Wales and the better appreciation of archaeology and the historic environment by all who live, work or take their holidays in Wales. The secretariat and membership of CBA Wales/Cymru are ready to offer advice on any of these topics.

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Countryside Council for Wales

The Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) is the statutory adviser to government on sustaining natural beauty, wildlife and the opportunity for outdoor enjoyment in rural Wales and its inshore waters. With our equivalent Agencies, English Nature and Scottish Natural Heritage, CCW delivers its statutory responsibility for Great Britain as a whole, and internationally, through the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

• CCW also helps to support those people who live in, and manage the countryside through the Tir Gofal agri-environmental scheme.

• CCW also offers advice, information and financial support across its full remit. CCW produces a variety of leaflets and posters on wildlife and countryside matters, with new publications available each year- with many obtainable on our website.