DESTINATION TALGARTH    - Collabor8 Meeting    18th May 2010.

Present:   CD. Williams, J. Whitehead, C, Meredith, M. Jones, L. Groves,  R. Rogers, J. Shaw,                P. Maughan,  EV Starling, William Powell.

Apologies:  John Wake, Geoff Smart, Michael Cunningham.

Collabore8 Meeting 13th April 2010

DESTINATION  TALGARTH

Attendance

C. Williams,   L Groves,  W. Powell,  T. Shaw,  P. Maugham,  G. Smart, Clive Michaelwright,            Elaine Starling.

Apologies:  J. Wake, R. Rogers, Lisa Marie Badham,  Pip and Jack Ellis,  Mike Cunningham, Helen Jones

Barbara Christopher, Tony James.

Short notes from the meeting and a series of action points:

Items discussed/Updates

- Luke's meeting with TIB had been positive in many respects.  TIB somewhat reassured about our objectives and agreed to involvement/collaboration on some of our Action Plan points.  Those present agreed it would be a good idea to have a further meeting with the TIB.

- National Park information board and town map. Idea of a town map to aid visitor orientation went down well at recent meeting with TIB. Since the meeting we have discovered there is already a BBNP sign in the car park so funding a new one may be difficult. 

- Improvements to Public Toilets - need to establish whose responsibility this is.  Worth spending some time on as it is a key priority and is something which it was felt could be accomplished in a relatively short timescale.

- Promotional activities - Alison and Amy felt concept of an "audit" was a little dry.  Had brainstormed and come up with plenty of ideas on how to better promote Hay - eg a regular events listing in printed broadsheet format.  Concept of a walking festival had also come up (this has been mooted in the past) which would tie in with idea of Hay becoming a Walkers are Welcome town.  The idea of a printed town map and/or a pared-down version of the brochure needs careful consideration.  Could be more efficient (economically and environmentally) but would compete with brochure for advertising space.