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Chris Henwood B'ham Mail 25 Feb 11
A much-loved outdoor centre in Wales has won an 11th hour reprieve after a Midland council’s cutbacks looked like forcing it to close.
Walsall Council agreed to sever ties with Bryntysilio in June last year, ending an association that saw thousands of Black Country youngsters enjoy outdoor getaways over the last 43 years…
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Wide Horizons 23 Feb 11
Following an approach from the Walsall Camp Trust just before Christmas, Widehorizons has agreed to manage Bryntysilio for the Summer. The two Trusts are working to secure a longer term partnership.
For this we need your help.
The ‘Secure the future of Brynty Campaign’ is designed to mobilise community support for the centre and the campaign. In order to build a secure future we are going to need advocates, volunteers, funders, business partners and donors.
To build the Brynty community please join us…
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Richard Worrall Advertiser 17 Feb 11
The Advertiser was good enough to publish a letter from me in December outlining the then-position with Bryntysilio Outdoor Education Centre, which sees its £500,000 of council funding withdrawn from the end of next month.
I said I hoped to come back with a survival plan and I can now reveal that, late last month, we were indeed able to come to an in-principle agreement with a charitable trust with aims and philosophy closely akin to our own.
While its identity must remain under wraps until its chief executive is available to make a press statement (we think in the next week or two), I can say that this is an organisation which successfully operates a number of previously local authority-run outdoor education centres in England and Wales, and negotiations with them as to the fine print of an agreement are ongoing…
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Richard Worrall, Letters Advertiser 3 Dec 10
Headteacher Gary Crowther’s article for the School Report in the Advertiser, November 18 raises the timely question of whether the Shire Oak School six-formers’ recent residential weekend at Bryntysilio Outdoor Education Centre might be their last.
The issue being whether, in the light of the council’s decision to cut both its £500,000 per annum funding and its decades-long organisational support for ‘Brynty’ from the end of March, the charity’s trustees will be able to save it.
The gravity of the council’s decision cannot be overstated…
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Advertiser 18 Nov 10
With the future of Bryntysilio Outdoor Education Centre uncertain, Shire Oak Sixth Form visited the centre for what could be the last time.
During the residential course, considerable emphasis was placed on social skills and living in a small community. The students were certainly tested to their limits and should all feel very proud of their achievements…
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BrownhillsBob 17 Jul 10
In the course of my web browsing recently, there have been a few gems tucked away in the blogs and local media you may not have noticed.
First up, the Butts play facility, second, the Bloxwich West by-election, third, the Bryntysylio and Willenhall Leisure Centre closures and finally…
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The Stirrer 14 Jul 10
Walsall councillor Pete Smith warns that children and cyclists are likely to take a big hit – literally – at Friday’s special Council meeting to discuss budget cuts (which is also likely to confirm the closure of Willenhall Leisure Centre, and the removal of funding from the Bryntisilio adventure camp in Wales.
Having already cut down on dozens of school crossing wardens at which I expressed grave concern in April this year (Express & Star coverage “Council will not fill vacant lollipop posts” on 30/4/10) I am dismayed to see that Walsall Council at a Special Cabinet meeting on Friday 16th July is likely to severely reduce the Council’s ability to deliver Road Safety Education Service mainly to schools…
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Express & Star 12 Jul 10
Funds to be withdrawn from Bryntysilio
Last-ditch efforts have failed to rescue Willenhall Leisure Centre from closure and save trips for hundreds of Walsall children to Bryntysilio outdoor pursuits centre in Wales.
It follows the announcement that another £7.7 million is to be shaved from Walsall Council’s budget this year because of government cuts, bringing the total reduction for 2010-11 to £22m…
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The YamYam 9 Jul 10
There is a meeting tonight (Friday 9 Jul) at 6pm at Walsall Council House to look at the decisions to close Willenhall Leisure Centre and Bryntysilio Outdoor Education Centre in Wales.
The community services scrutiny panel is going to hear from campaigners and residents who are trying to save the facilities.
Any interested parties wishing to speak at the meeting should contact Craig Goodall on 01922 65 3317.
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Cllr Ian Shires 29 Jun 10
The future of Willenhall Leisure Centre and Bryntysilio, the council’s outdoor education centre in North Wales, still remains unresolved.
Last night members of the Community Scrutiny and Performance Panel decided to adjourn their meeting to hear the “call-ins” of the council’s Tory Cabinet decision to close both facilities after councillor Ian Shires, lead speaker for the Willenhall Leisure Centre call-in, expressed concern that all known interested parties had not been formally invited to attend the meeting by the council as is believed to be laid down in the protocols surrounding the constitutional arrangements for scrutiny and performance panels…