Activity providers and activity-friendly accommodation providers are working together to develop and promote activities in the Dyfi Valley.

And now, with financial help from Tourism Partnership-Mid Wales, they have a new database driven web-site for activity visitors.

www.dyfiactive.org.uk gives visitors all the information they need to self-package activity holidays - how to get here, where to stay and what to do.

New members can also register themselves on-line, typing in what they want for their entry.

Dyfi Active aims to create more year-round jobs for local people, through increasing activity tourism in the Dyfi Valley.

But they also want to see that the environmental impact of activity visitors is kept to a minimum. These are two of the reasons why they have been supported every step of the way by ecodyfi - we've helped with establishing the group, planning and fund-raising, as well as advising on the local sustainable tourism framework - the Dyfi Valley Tourism Growth Area action plan.

They have also received financial support from Powys County Council via the tourism growth area.

From sailing to climbing, canoeing to golfing, and fishing to hill walking, Dyfi Active is promoting all kinds of "active" outdoor activities, particularly to family and beginner groups and to those who require the services of leaders and guides.

Chair Andy Williams says "the possibilities here are almost endless - how many other places in the world offer empty dunes and surfing beaches, untested rapids and falls, hectares of forest, open, windswept estuaries, quiet rocky crags, rolling green valleys abandoned slate quarries and bleak upland stretches - all within a few miles of unhindered travel?

ÒAnd it's so beautiful here, we're amazed so few people have discovered it already."

Activity providers and activity-friendly accommodation wishing to sign up to the site (and companion leaflet) for a year, should contact Dyfi Active Secretary Ann Bottrill at the Braich Goch in Corris on 01654 761229.