Coleg Powys is providing a series of demonstrations on stand D302 at this year’s Royal Welsh. On each morning between 10am and 12pm, staff and students from the hair and beauty department will be demonstrating their skills through a range of activities, including massage, plaiting and twisting, indian head massage, nail filing and polishing, fitness work and reflexology.  Treatments will be offered to members of the public with donations going to The Bracken Trust.

Staff and students from the catering department will also be providing some demonstrations on the Thursday at 10.30am-12pm and 1pm-2.30pm.  They will be decorating cupcakes and producing Welsh cheese sticks with local organic fruit and vegetables.

You will also find some of our beauty students at the BBC Cymru Wales building throughout the week, where they will be offering nail shaping and polishing for a donation of £3 for Children in Need.  They will be doing the treatments in a mock-up of ‘Salon Sheryl’, which is from the popular Welsh language soap ‘Pobol y Cwm’.

Please come and support us at stand D302 and the BBC Cymru Wales building.

Staff will also be available throughout the week to provide information about courses.

Colegau Cymru has kindly allowed us to be part of their stand this year, along with four other colleges from Wales.

Programme of Activities on the Colegau Cymru stand

Coleg Powys will be offering a range of part-time courses that will be starting in September.

Included at the Llandrindod site will be the Complementary Therapy Diploma Level 2 VTCT and the Complementary and Spa Therapy Level 3 VTCT.  These courses will cover Body Massage, Aromatherapy, Facial and Scalp Massage, Anatomy and Physiology, Indian Head Massage and Remedial Massage, Hot Stone Therapy and Reflexology.

AAT courses are being offered at levels 2 to 4 at the Brecon, Llandrindod and Newtown site.  The qualification can open doors to a wide variety of rewarding job opportunities or you could become self employed and work for yourself.

The Newtown site will also be offering the Hairdressing Diploma Level 2 VRQ on Tuesday evenings, where you will learn how to cut women’s hair, style and dress women’s hair, colour hair, and perm and neutralise hair.

For further details phone 0845 4086 299.  Alternatively visit our website at www.coleg-powys.ac.uk to see further details on these courses and the full range of part-time courses that we offer.

Ystradgynlais hospital celebrated Adult Learners Week in style by having Coleg Powys Beauty students offering beauty and holistic therapy treatments to staff, visitors and patients for free.  There were also information strands on local Adult Education courses offered via Coleg Powys and other local providers.

The hospital hosted the project as an innovative way to highlight to staff and the wider public the opportunities that are available for lifelong learning locally.  Students and teachers were available to take questions on a range of courses including Access to Higher Education, the BA Degree, a wide range of Health and Beauty courses and Basic Skills.

Additionally, the local Community Focused Services Officer was on hand with an information stand and, as a special treat, students from the community Sing in Company class came along to brighten the day by singing their own versions of some popular songs.

Community Lifelong Learning Officer Joanne Howells said: “This event really brought community spirit together and was a great success.  A special thanks needs to go to the students involved in the event as they were very dedicated and professional.”

The therapy students at the Llandrindod site of Coleg Powys successfully ran the Spa facilities at The Metropole in Llandrindod and raised £185 for the Bracken Trust Hospice.

The Metropole had kindly given permission for the therapy students to run the facilities on St David’s Day to enable them to have experience of a real working environment, whilst raising funds towards the renewal of the Bracken Trust Hospice.

Clients were given a choice of treatments to choose from including Hot Head (Indian Head Massage with Hot Stones), Reflexology Experience, Massage Experience and Spa Journey and had access to the pool and Spa facilities. 

Head of School for Hair and Beauty Jayne Wright said: “This was a very successful event and we would like to thank all the clients that came to support us and also to The Metropole for allowing us to use their facilities.  The students had a very enjoyable day.”

The Spa facilities at The Metropole were also celebrating a birthday, as they were opened on St David’s Day 22 years ago in 1988.

People that fancy some pampering on St David’s Day should head to The Metropole for a Spa Day that is being run by the Level 3 Advanced Therapy students of Coleg Powys to raise funds for the Bracken Trust Hospice.

The Therapy students at the Llandrindod site will be running the spa facilities at The Metropole on 1st March from 11am to 7.30pm, which will give you the opportunity of having first class treatments at a great price.

Packages are from £16, which includes access to the pool and Spa facilities plus a treatment.  Treatments on offer are Hot Head (Indian Head Massage with Hot Stones), Reflexology Experience, Deluxe Hands and Feet, Glamour Package (Facial and Make-up), Deluxe Back (Facial for the back with a massage), Massage Experience, Skin Scanner and Spa Journey.

Profits from the day will be given to the Bracken Trust Hospice.

Head of School for Hair and Beauty Jayne Wright said: “This is a great opportunity for our students to practice the skills they have learnt in a real commercial environment.  We are very grateful to The Metropole for allowing us to run their spa facilities for the day.”

If you would like to take advantage of this great offer or get further information please call 0845 4086 344.