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

Welsh government wants new board members to make the national park feel more inclusive to everyone

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.