She has led the organisation from a small unincorporated body to a nationally respected charitable company, improving economic, health and social well-being for both communities and thousands of individuals throughout the home nations of the UK.  As well as a passion for the outdoors, Tracey brings a wealth of experience to her role through her lifelong involvement in sport. She has a professional background in sports development and has represented Wales as an elite performer and commonwealth medallist.  Outside work Tracey enjoys running, skiing, hill walking, rowing and cycling.

Her volunteering roles include membership of the Adventure Activity Industry Advisory Committee and as a Welsh Government Appointed Board Member of the Snowdonia National Park Authority.

He has worked with Public Health Wales and the NHS, on health projects and referral schemes. He has successfully acquired thousands of pounds worth of grants for capital projects, such as building storage facilities for several outdoor clubs, as well as projects improving access to water, and to provide outdoor activities for residents in North West Wales.

Before joining the Outdoor Partnership Mark had over 10 years’ experience working full-time and as freelance Instructor at Outdoor Centres across North Wales. He currently holds the Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor, UKCC level 2 Moderate Water Endorsement, and the Trail Cycle Leader qualifications, and is one of very few Welsh speaking REC First Aid Instructors.

In his new role as the Outdoor Partnership’s Programme Manager, Mark will lead a project to replicate the charity’s ethos and success in North Wales, to other regions of the UK. This is part of a 7 year project under the heading ‘Opening Door to the Outdoors’, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.

When not at work, Mark enjoys, hill walking, climbing, paddling, mountain biking, skiing, and snowboarding.

Elin plays a central part in managing and monitoring half a million pounds of income and expenditure annually. She has extensive knowledge and experience of SAGE financial management system and is qualified to AAT Level 4.

When not buried under a pile of invoices Elin enjoys sampling a bit of culture on her travels (when she can find her passport 😊), socialising with her friends and singing in her local choir. Elin also enjoys walking, especially if there is a pub at the end of the journey.

Leila holds the Mountain Leader Award, Single Pitch Award, Cave leader, UKCC BCU Level 2 coach in water sports, such as inland kayak, sea kayak, canoe and SUP and Forest School Leader. Outside of work Leila spends time enjoying trail running, mountain biking, surfing and having mini adventures with her family. In her role as Outdoor Activities Development Officer, she loves the idea of trying to help the Outdoor Partnership achieve their vision and become the glue that brings everything together, helping bind local communities together and create sustainable use and understanding of the environment.

Over time, Bethan has seen how important, and even essential, taking part in outdoor activities can be for people’s well-being and physical health and is keen to work hard to ensure more people in mid Wales have access to these benefits.

Bethan holds Mountain Leader, RCI and other paddlesport, caving and orienteering coaching qualifications and is working towards her Climbing Development Coach Award. She is a registered director of climbing and hill-walking awards and courses for Mountain Training and tutor of navigation courses for NNAS.

When not working, Bethan likes to take a busman’s holiday – climbing, hill-walking, fell running and cycling around the UK or donning a rucksack or panniers to take on long-distance routes around Europe, the Pyrenees being a favourite. More recently, adventures have included squeezing two people and two whippets into a van and exploring islands around the UK, packraft in tow.

Brett is looking forward to developing the “Opening the Doors to the Outdoors” programme in Gwent to enable more people to gain from the amazing benefits of outdoor activities.

Outside of work, Brett enjoys spending time with his growing family exploring nature. He is a keen fell runner, hiker and climber, holding his mountain leader, climbing wall instructor and mountain bike instructor qualifications.

This work has gained her a position on the Swim Wales Consultation Panel and a Sport Wales Youth Panel. 

In her spare time, she enjoys Open Water Swimming at her local beaches and lakes, Trail Running at local forests and Hiking with her dogs.

Sioned is passionate about ensuring everyone’s voice is heard and is looking forward to getting started in her new role.

He has been involved in both indoor and outdoor sports from an early age, participating, competing and coaching up to national standard. He holds a number of mountain and water-based National Governing Body awards and when not working spends his time surfing, climbing, mountain biking, alpine skiing and ski touring.

He started taking part in activities such as sailing and canoeing in his early teens. While studying for a degree in Tourism Management at Aberystwyth University, he discovered a love for skiing, and since then he has successfully gained the BASI Alpine Level 1 qualification.

Tomos is fond of having new experiences. He has travelled to many counties and had an extended period travelling South West Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In his leisure time, Tomos enjoys walking in Snowdonia, sailing and cycling. He is also fond of playing the guitar, cooking and socialising with his friends and family.

In his role as Outdoor Activities Development Officer, he is looking forward to working with the Outdoor Partnership, and continue to provide experiences and opportunities in the outdoors for the residents of Gwynedd.

Having spent a number of years travelling and working abroad, mainly in the ski industry, she returned to Wales to work as a Sports Development officer, enjoying the opportunity to encourage children and young people in Gwynedd to take part in all kind of sporting activities.

Working with The Outdoor Partnership is a chance for her to specifically support and encourage individuals, groups and clubs to enjoy the outdoors, as she does. Outside of work, this is where you’ll find her! Either cycling quiet back roads, swimming in the sea or lakes, road tripping in the van, or running in the mountains and tackling fell races – often telling herself half-way up a steep climb, to find a new hobby!

Simon has over 10 years’ experience of working with volunteers and extensive knowledge and understanding of National Governing Bodies of outdoor sport qualification frameworks.

He currently holds the Mountain Leader Summer and Winter Awards, Mountain Instructor Awards and working towards his Mountain Instructor Certificate. Outside of work, Simon enjoys skiing, snowboarding, mountaineering, climbing, running and mountain biking.

Since joining the team in March 2017, Bethan has played an instrumental role in helping the charity achieve the Disability Sport Wales Insport Bronze Accreditation and is playing an influential role in improving access to the outdoors for women & girls and people with pan disabilities in North Wales.

Bethan is passionate about sport and inspiring others to get active. When not working Bethan spends a lot of her time travelling up and down the country competing in rugby and currently plays for Firwood Waterloo Ladies, RGC Ladies and is part of the Welsh Womens 15s and 7s Squads.

Caoimhe is the first of three new Outdoor Activities Development Officers that will be joining the team as part of the UK lottery expansion project ‘Opening the Doors to the Outdoors’. Based at the Tollymore National Outdoor Centre in Northern Ireland, she will cover the areas of Newry, Mourne and Down – Ards and North Down – Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavion.

The role will involve establishing, and supporting existing local community outdoor clubs and groups, schools, and youth groups encouraging participation in a wide range of outdoor activities using the natural environment on their doorstep.

Caoimhe holds the Mountain Leader Award, Single Pitch Award, BCU Level 2 Canoe and Kayak coach, Sea kayak leader, Sea kayak coach, Canoe leader and MBLA Trail Cycle leader.

Outside of work Caoimhe can be found trail running with her dog, on the sea in her kayak, mountain biking, climbing, or paddling down a river.

Having worked across England and Wales at various outdoor centres (including Outward Bound and The Calvert Trust), Claire brings her extensive knowledge of outdoor pursuits to the team.

Working on the UK Lottery Expansion project ‘opening doors to the outdoors’ Claire is excited to share her passion for adventure with others, and replicate the great things achieved in Wales, across West Cumbria.

Living in Cumbria with her young family (and dog) she tries to make the most of the amazing natural facilities on her doorstep. Passionate about helping others to be able to achieve and push themselves, your likely to find her canoeing on a lake or river, perhaps hill walking (not always to a pub) or just playing in the great outdoors with her family.

Vincent is excited to be able to work across all of the three Ayrshire Authorities and develop the “Opening the Doors to the Outdoors” programme in supporting and developing outdoor activities, clubs, schools and youth groups across the County.

He has been an RNLI crew member of Troon Lifeboat for the past 15 years. He is a keen sailor, coastal rower and hillwalker holding the Walking Group Leader and RYA Coastal Skipper qualification.

Dan is passionate and dedicated to using the wild spaces and community to help people improve their own lives and find connection with one another to improve peoples mental health, emotional welfare and ability to empower themselves.

He is a keen footballer, mountain walker & cook and enjoys spending time in the wild spaces of north Wales though wild swimming, foraging and camping and loves to spend time at sea whenever he can.

Zac, formerly an ambassador for the Outdoor Partnership and beneficiary of the coach education programme, looks forward to expanding the current outdoor provision across North Wales as he is passionate about outdoor recreation and its associated benefits.
Professionally, Zac has worked as a surfing and water sports instructor for several years and has recently been working at Adventure Parc Snowdonia as the Adventure Manager where he managed a large team of outdoor instructors across a multitude of activities. He was responsible for the safe operation of all activities on site, staff welfare and training. He is looking forward to bringing his skills and knowledge into the OP team and hopes to benefit the wider community. In his personal life Zac his passion now lies in surf trips and chasing quality waves. When not skiing or surfing he loves mountain biking and climbing and has recently taken on the new challenge of wing foiling! He isn’t shy about getting out in the elements!

Gary is looking forward to being able to develop outdoor reaction within the Sperrins and watching local communities thrive and grow utilizing the Sperrins amazing natural resources.
Gary’s passion is for anything cycling related. As a youngster he spent most of his time in the Gortin Glens exploring the forest park and finding things to jump off. He has competed across various cycling disciplines which has taken him across Europe and further afield. His main discipline now is enduro mountain biking, this has allowed him to take full advantage of the MTB trail network the Sperrins has to offer. He recently finished 3rd place in the 2022 Trans Madeira 5-day stage race and is looking forward to competing in more multi day stage racing events in the future.

He has been an appointed RYA dinghy trainer and RYA centre inspector for over 20 yrs. and holds RYA Senior instructor qualification and instructor qualifications in Dinghy, keelboat, multihull, race coaching, powerboat, windsurfing and first aid, along with BCU kayak coaching qualifications. Also has been able to sail yachts all over the world taking part in some of the iconic yacht races.
Over the last 10 yrs. Stuart has been working in youth work and community development, enabling local organisations to development and fulfil their ambitions, with funding support, connections, networking and advocating for the voluntary and community sector in the Plymouth area.
Stuart and his family moved to Plymouth 20yrs ago, luckily his family share his outdoor passions, holidays mostly include walking, mountain biking, skiing and climbing in the alps, paddling the local rivers and racing their boats with the local clubs. Outside of adventurous sports, Stuart is a massive American football fan.

Until recently Sarah was the West Midlands development officer for the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom working with schools to support student wellbeing through nature connectedness and embed learning beyond the classroom opportunities in everyday curriculum delivery.

Sarah is a member of the Outdoor Education Advisers Panel, chairing the Midlands region for 6 years and remains an active member of designated working groups.

As a qualified outdoor professional, Sarah is passionate about making outdoor activity accessible to everyone. Opening pathways to outdoor activity for ever community in Coventry is an exciting prospect utilising the programs of the Outdoor Partnership

In her spare time, Sarah enjoys exploring the country with her husband in their campervan, finding adventure wherever they go.

Whilst working as an instructor Sam has dabbled in most outdoor sports but found his calling in caving and prefers nothing more than to be underground, unless it’s raining, then he may be found in a local bouldering wall.

Whilst working as an instructor Sam has found that his greatest enjoyment has come from engaging people from diverse backgrounds into activities, they wouldn’t normally have been offered a chance to try. Sam has seen the benefits these activities can bring to peoples lives and is very much looking forward to doing more of this in his new role.

Apart from outdoor activities, Sam enjoys spending time in his shed attempting some DIY, going to gigs, and cooking on the BBQ.

Gwenno has enjoyed taking part in all kinds of outdoor activities from a young age; family trips to go walking, kayaking, biking and orienteering. She is a strong advocate of the benefits of outdoor activities  for both physical and mental health. During the past 12 months she has been exploring the beautiful coastline of Anglesey and discovering new experiences, on SUP’s and with a rowing club.

She is also a keen netballer and footballer and tries to divide her time between all activities.

As a development officer, it is important to Gwenno to ensure that everyone, from all ages and backgrounds, get to experience outdoor activities, and all the benefits entailed with these.