Author: Rhys Gregory

AN ACCLAIMED recruitment company unveiled a fresh new look and plans for growth as its MD celebrated a landmark anniversary. Award-winning Supertemps, based in Colwyn Bay and Bangor, is emerging from the pandemic in a positive position. Managing Director Sarah Ellwood marked 25 years with the business by welcoming bilingual resourcer Tamara Owen to the team. Tamara’s arrival takes staff numbers to 12 and comes after another successful online employment law seminar in partnership with Manchester-based JMW Solicitors, which attracted 120 registrants. And news that the company’s S2 Recruitment brand will be re-incorporated into the wider Supertemps group to focus…

Christ College Brecon is calling on outdoor enthusiasts to join its charity challenge which will coincide with the King’s coronation this May bank holiday weekend. The Coronation Mountain Challenge is part of the school’s ambitious 2041 Mountain Challenge which launched last year and invites competitors to push themselves to their limits and take on one of three different hiking routes around the Brecon Beacons. The Challenge will be held annually up until 2041 which will mark the school’s 500th anniversary. It aims to raise money year-on-year for the Christ College Brecon Foundation, which funds students’ bursaries, and Brecon Mountain Rescue.…

Members of a closed club and Cardiff Bus staff have donated £8000 to a leading end of life charity in memory of late colleagues. The Tudor Street Transport Club closed in 2019 and was sold.  Following distribution of monies to members and to pay final bills, the group decided to donate the remaining funds to Marie Curie. They met the team at the charity’s Cardiff and the Vale Hospice in Penarth to hand over the donation. Marie Curie provides essential nursing and hospice care for people with any terminal illness, a free support line and a wealth of information and…

A top dancer is planning to put her best foot forward at the London Marathon in aid of Parkinson’s UK Cymru. Angharad Harrop, who lives in Llandudno, has been inspired to undertake the gruelling run, which takes place on April 23, by the determination of the members of her dance and movement class who have Parkinson’s. The mother of three has an undergraduate and a masters in dance from De Montfort University, and will graduate from her doctorate in July. She leads the National Dance Company Wales and English National Ballet as well as the Dance for Parkinson’s classes at…

From Moominvalley to the town of books… One of the world’s most famous stars of children’s literature landed in Hay-on-Wye yesterday to mark 50 days to Hay Festival 2023. Moomintroll spent a busy afternoon in the town of books, putting the first peg in the ground of the Festival’s Dairy Meadows site and handing out the newly-released print programme. Taking place 25 May–4 June, Hay Festival is the world’s leading festival of ideas, bringing readers and writers together in sustainable events to inspire, examine and entertain on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park. This year’s programme launches the…

With a history spanning 4 decades in Cardiff under their belt, Curtins has moved its growing team into brand-new premium office premises in the city centre. They have been custom designed to provide great, flexible working spaces suitable for the varying needs of the innovation-driven engineering team. Central to the design has been ensuring a comfortable and inspiring environment that encourages collaboration. Curtins’ new office dedicates only a proportion to computer desk space, and unlike traditional desk-per-square-meter models, most of this open-plan office is given over to flexible collaboration areas, breakout booths for focused time and virtual meetings, 1-2-1 spaces…

A monthly Street Food & Artisan Market will launch in Riverside later this month, organised by the award-winning Cardiff Farmers Markets. Last year, the same team behind Cardiff’s weekly Rhiwbina, Roath and Riverside Farmers Markets trialled a post-work, midweek market on the Fitzhammon Embankment which went on to run monthly throughout the summer. Following enthusiastic feedback, this midweek market will return on Wednesday 26th April from 5pm – 8pm (then monthly throughout the summer); the perfect excuse to gather a few friends for a post-work feast – and pick up a few other bits and bobs while you’re there. The trader…

Educational talks, cookery workshops and free fitness sessions have been helping to inspire people in Swansea to live an even healthier lifestyle. The Penderi Local Cluster Collaborative (LCC) hosted a free health and wellbeing event with a wide range of fitness classes, workshops and talks on offer. Its main aim was to support and motivate people to improve their health and wellbeing by making them aware of different resources and organisations available to them. Held at Penlan Leisure Centre, it was the first event of its kind to be hosted by the LCC. Members of the public learned how to…

On Thursday 30th March, not-for-profit housing organisation United Welsh welcomed councillors from Caerphilly Council and Bedwas Trethomas Machen Community Council for a tour of Ty Yn Y Pwll, a new apartment building of 25 new homes in the heart of Trethomas. Built at the site of the former Ty Yn Y Pwll pub and hotel on Newport Road, development work to build the new homes for older people is now complete. Ty Yn Y Pwll includes one and two-bedroom apartments for people aged over 55, with communal social space on the ground floor. The new apartments have all achieved an…

A young football star has the world at his feet after playing for Wales and rubbing shoulders with real life royalty and the Hollywood variety. Cai Lloyd Evans, 17, who lives in Bangor and plays football for the Wrexham AFC youth team, was a member of the 20-strong Wales Schools Under 18 squad who took part in the 2023 Roma Caput Mundi tournament in Italy. Cai’s mum Sandra, who is the manager at the award winning Bryn Seiont Newydd care home on the outskirts of Caernarfon, often takes Cai to the training sessions and regularly watches him play. “I enjoy…