Charters & Policies

Road Safety Policy
Newtown Football Club and Powys County Council’s Road Safety Unit have teamed up for an exciting partnership to deliver a key message – the importance of road safety.
Saturday Nov 20^th saw a special event, co-ordinated with organisers of Newtown Football Club as part of their community initiative which aims to incorporate football, health awareness and educational issues into the lives of young people living in and around Newtown.
Saturday’s match saw the Junior Road Safety Officers from Abermule, Beguildy, Caersws, Maesyrhandir, Rhayader and Ysgol Dafydd Llwyd schools acting as mascots for Newtown football club. The Junior Road Safety Officers play a key role in leading road safety initiatives within their schools along with the help of their Road Safety Project Officer, Alyson Broome. They do this by maintaining a noticeboard, taking assemblies and running competitions. Alyson said “This is a really effective scheme that is currently running in 42 primary schools across Powys. It allows the pupils to take ownership of the scheme and influence good behaviour and good road safety skills amongst their peers and has played a key role in allowing Powys to be on track to hit government targets to reduce the number of children killed or seriously injured on our roads by 50% by the year 2010.” (Government’s road safety improvement strategy 'Tomorrow’s Roads: Safer For Everyone', published in 2000)
The match was screened live on S4C’s Sgorio programme, with some of the Junior Road Safety Officers being interviewed live by presenter Alun Williams.
The Junior Road Safety Officers were helping to promote the Be Safe Be Seen campaign by giving out a reflective keyring and a leaflet explaining the importance of being seen in daylight and at night to every child entering the ground. The Road Safety Unit were also promoting their annual christmas drink-drive campaign to mark the start of National Road Safety Week beginning Monday 22^nd November. The drink-drive campaign aims to deliver the message that it is impossible to calculate an accurate drink-drive limit as it is very much dependant on your weight, age, sex, metabolism, whether you have eaten and the amount and type of alcohol. Therefore, the best way to accurately ensure you stay below the drink-drive limit is to have no alcohol at all, bearing in mind that even one drink could be too much.
Councillor Kelvin Curry said “With the dark night’s drawing in and Christmas just around the corner, there are a number of issues we all need reminding of, whether it’s children wearing bright and reflective clothing or the perils of drink-driving. I hope everyone enjoys today’s match and takes hope a valuable message about road safety.”
Tim Broome, Football Development Officer for the Welsh Football Trust said “Today’s game provides a great opportunity to publicise a very important message to a large audience. A special thank-you must go to Newtown Football Club for supporting such a worthwhile initiative.