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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Brecon Beacons board adds disabled, LGBT and minority-ethnic champions

The Welsh minister for climate change, Julie James (third from left), with new members (l-r) John Hunt, Yvonne Howard-Bunt, Liz Bickerton and Craig Stephenson.
The Welsh minister for climate change, Julie James (third from left), with new members (l-r) John Hunt, Yvonne Howard-Bunt, Liz Bickerton and Craig Stephenson. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/Athena Pictures

The image of the typical visitor to the UK’s great national parks – and of the board members who oversee them – is probably still white, middle-class and perhaps a little conventional.

But the Welsh government has made clear its ambition to make Wales’s wildernesses feel more inclusive by swearing in new board members for the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority who will champion the black, Asian and minority-ethnic, LGBTQi+ and disability communities.

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