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.

There are two new courses starting in November in Newtown:

Flower Arranging
Mondays 7 to 9 pm, starting 2 November for 5 weeks

Learn how to create traditional and contemporary arrangements for the season. This short course will help you learn the basic elements of design and techniques; flower conditioning; wiring and taping as well as bow making.

Reflexology
Wednesdays 7 to 9 pm, starting 11 November for 6 weeks

Come and enjoy a fun evening and relieve stress – this course will help you practice relaxation as well as apply basic reflexology techniques. You will be able to recognise the main pressure areas in the foot and carry out a basic massage as well as be aware of related health and safety guidelines.

For more details and to book on the course phone 0845 4086299.

Coleg Powys has undertaken a new initiative to encourage staff to look after themselves through its Health Work and Wellbeing programme. Extra curricular sessions are being held in its on-site beauty salons for staff to have treatments at a reduced rate. The initiative has been developed in line with government policy which focuses on improving the health and wellbeing of people of working age in Britain.

The treatments on offer include Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Massage and are performed by fully qualified and experienced therapists. College Managers hope to extend the provision by supporting local businesses in the surrounding areas to care for their staff in a similar fashion.

The College has on-site salons at Llandrindod Wells, Newtown and Brecon all of which offer a full range of treatments at very competitive prices, including; massages, facials, tanning, manicures, pedicures and waxing. Also on offer are special treatments such as St Tropez, Crystal Clear treatments, Electrolysis, Dermalift and Slendertone. This provision is supplemented by a very full range of hairdressing services.

Each salon is staffed by experienced and fully qualified beauty therapists available to carry out the treatments, but there is also the option of having students at various skill levels for reduced rates.

For further information about these services contact the hair and beauty salons on 0845 4086 344.