Author: Rhys Gregory

The Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (RWAS) has switched to a 100% renewable energy tariff for its electricity supplies. The organisation, which stages the iconic Royal Welsh Show, has signed up with energy supplier EDF in support of the society’s commitment to sustainability. The Renewable for Business scheme uses electricity backed by UK REGOs (Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin) or European GoOs (Guarantees of Origins), from a blend of sources including hydro, wind, solar, biomass and landfill gas. EDF’s Renewable for Business has been designed to help businesses and commercial organisations with their greenhouse gas reporting. The Carbon Trust has confirmed…

The new Equity Series will run from 2023-2026 and will involve international events across: Hay Queretaro (Mexico); Hay Arequipa (Peru) and Hay Cartagena (Colombia). Between 25 May and 4 June 2023, the British Council has been supporting a programme of events at the world’s leading festival of ideas across literature, Hay Festival. This year, the British Council programme has been centred around the topic of equity, as well as featuring up-and-coming writers from the UK and across the world. The new Equity Series is aimed at supporting and promoting the contributions to cultural life of historically under-represented groups. It will…

Retired teacher Ednyfed Williams was only three when a famous male voice choir was formed in 1933 – 90 years later they’re both still here and still singing. Ednyfed joined Côr Meibion Trelawnyd in 1955 and on Saturday, July 1, he will take his place in the bass section at their 90th Anniversary Concert, alongside tenor and Gio Compario star Wynne Evans at Rhyl’s Pavilion Theatre. As well as celebrating the momentous milestone, the choir is aiming to support Tŷ Gobaith/Hope House with a raffle to raise money for the charity which has hospices in the Conwy Valley and Morda,…

A woodland wonderland created by a former social worker is transforming lives as well as the countryside on the borders of Denbighshire and Flintshire. Outside Lives is the brainchild of Lucy Powell whose team of almost 200 volunteers is repurposing the land around Aberduna Hall, near Maeshafn, into a four and a half acre eco-friendly field of dreams. The project is being helped by two grants totalling almost £60,000 from the £1.3 million Green Communities Fund run by rural regeneration agency Cadwyn Clwyd. The Green Communities project is supported by the Welsh Government’s Enabling Natural Resources and Wellbeing (ENRaW) programme…

Local authorities in Wales need to promote the fact that people don’t have to use online technologies to apply for the blue badge parking scheme, and that alternative processes are available.   While older people should request an alternative to an online application process if that is how they prefer to engage with their local authority. Age Cymru is making these calls following research carried out by the charity which found that all local authorities in Wales provide one or more alternatives to online application processes such as face-to-face, postal, telephone, and even home visits in some cases, but some authorities…

Casting has been announced for the Olivier-Award winning production Life of Pi, which visits Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre from 17 – 21 October on its first-ever tour of the UK and Ireland.   The stage adaption stars Divesh Subaskaran in his professional debut as the central role of Pi, alongside an extraordinary life-size puppeteered Bengal Tiger.  Divesh will be joined by Antony Antunes, who performs as Tiger Hind / Cook / Father Martin, Adwitha Arumugam as Pi Alternate, Bhawna Bhawsar as Lulu Chen/Mrs Biology Kumar, Ralph Birtwell as Mamaji/ Admiral Balbir Singh, Kriss Dosanjh as Father.   Sebastian Goffin and Akash Heer…

Roger Devlin, Chairman of Persimmon Homes, addressed Cardiff Business Club in the Club’s latest event. In the event at Sophia Gardens on May 25, Roger spoke about Persimmon’s position as the leading housebuilder in South Wales, which has seen the company build over 5,000 new homes in Wales over the past five years. This work has supported nearly 20,000 jobs in the Welsh economy through direct construction roles and associated supply chains. During the same period, the financial contributions to local authorities have totalled in the tens of millions through s106 agreements, the Community Infrastructure Levy, and the creation of…

Leading South Wales taxi and private hire firm Dragon Taxis is supporting Whitchurch Heath Cricket Club as its match ball sponsor for the 2023 season. Whitchurch Heath has four Senior league sides and a thriving youth section that runs teams at ages under nine, 11, 13 and 15. They are dedicated to playing competitive cricket in a welcoming, inclusive and social atmosphere in the North Cardiff suburb. Dragon Taxis, a regional brand of the UK’s fastest-growing taxi and private hire technology platform Veezu, is sponsoring the club for the second year and is helping with financial support to fund day-to-day…

Free weekly multi-sport sessions for children aged between five and seven are being offered in Haverfordwest from Thursday 8th June to Thursday 13thJuly. Run by Sport Pembrokeshire, the multi-sport sessions give children a chance to try a wide variety of sports, from football and tennis to golf, gymnastics, wheelchair basketball, soft darts and more! Some of the many positive comments from parents whose children have participated include: ‘My daughter has really enjoyed herself and now enrolled in dance, gymnastics and swimming. Thank you for all the opportunities that you have made possible’ and ‘I just wanted to thank you for…

Residents are invited to attend a community event in Mountain Ash to find out more about a proposed new development which supports residential dementia care and extra care accommodation, planned for the former Pavilion site at Darran Road. The proposed scheme would be jointly delivered with Linc Cymru (Linc), as part of the £60m care accommodation modernisation agreed in February 2023, which is on top of the £50m extra care investment agreed in 2017 to increase the number of extra care beds in Rhondda Cynon Taf to 300. To date, 100 extra care beds have since been created across new…