Author: Rhys Gregory

Following on from the hugely successful and highly popular event in April, Street Food Warehouse are back and are bringing Swansea Street Food Festival to Museum Park, SA1 3ST for another stint this year on the 9th-11th September, bringing you even more top-notch street food traders and the tastiest cuisines. Due to the success of last time, it would be rude not to! This time the £5 feast is being introduced, meaning you can get your hands dirty and get stuck in trying even more of the amazing cuisines that are being offered at a smaller cost. Each street food…

A group of Welsh food and drink producers are heading for London and lunch! – the ‘must attend’ event for the food-to-go sector (September 14th & 15th). Held at ExCeL London, the event is co-located with sister shows Commercial Kitchen and Casual Dining. Full of delicious food and drink, networking, seminars, and the latest tech and innovation, lunch! is a one-stop-shop for food-to-go businesses. Six Welsh producers will be featured on stand L731, where they are exhibiting under the auspices of the Food & Drink Wales Fine Food Cluster. Facilitated by Menter a Busnes and Cywain, the Fine Food Cluster…

Chwarae Teg, the charity whose work leads the drive towards a gender equal Wales, has welcomed five new members to its Board of trustees. The non-executive directors bring a further wealth of cross-sector knowledge and diverse experience to the table, having formally joined the Board in September. Chwarae Teg is committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively as an employer and across the services it provides. The new appointments will ensure the Board is reflective of the wide range of women, businesses and partners it supports and collaborates with.                                  The five new non-executive directors are:    Matt Davies – Chief People Officer for FinTech company, Target…

The People’s Projects is back and community organisations in Wales are in with a chance of winning up to £70,000 of National Lottery funding, as well as an opportunity to showcase their inspiring work on TV!   In total, over £4 million is up for grabs for communities across the UK and the public will ultimately decide where this much-needed funding will go. The People’s Projects not only delivers vital grants to the heart of UK communities, but also raises awareness of the incredible work of community groups across the land. It’s being launched today by The National Lottery Community Fund,…

Cardiff Council has announced a series of traffic measures in the city centre as work begins to create a southern entrance to the new Transport Interchange. The Interchange, which will feature the new bus station, is expected to be opened to the public by Transport for Wales (TfW) next year. The latest development is the creation of an access route from the south, meaning the temporary closure of Saunders Road from its junction with Penarth Road. Work begins on September 19 and is expected to take up to six months. While work is under way, the railway station taxi rank,…

Preparing the way for major redevelopment of the area, the former Llys Dewi Sant building in Swansea is now starting to disappear from the city centre. Main demolition work on the building is taking place, following-on from the completion of stripping-out works inside. Hoardings are up around the site, which will be redeveloped by regeneration specialists Urban Splash in a joint venture with Milligan as part of broader proposals for the Swansea Central North development site in the longer-term. Once detailed proposals are in place for the overall development site, plenty of opportunities will be made available for local residents…

Following the Ofgem decision to raise the energy cap, Swansea’s Energy Awareness Hub team has announced a series of free community roadshows in September that are open to all. The initiative is being funded by Swansea Council’s Economic Recovery Fund  and the roadshows will offer common-sense support to those looking for ways to reduce household energy consumption to help deal with the cost of living crisis. Community events in September include a number in Morriston, Gorseinon, Clydach, Penlan and the city centre. Additionally, the city centre Environment Centre is due to host free energy awareness talks – Wednesday, September 14, noon-1pm…

Food and Fun is a school-based education programme that provides food and nutrition education, physical activity, enrichment sessions and healthy meals to children during the school summer holidays. Since its initial launch in 2015, the scheme has developed into a national, fully funded Welsh Government programme as part of the School Holiday Enrichment Programme (SHEP). About 60 children took part in the scheme at Pantside Primary School in Newbridge. Mother-of-two Samantha Harding, whose daughter attended the sessions, said the cost of living crisis meant things were “tighter and tighter” financially with each passing month. She now works more hours which…

The annual Tydfilians’ Roman Run returned last Saturday after a two-year absence. Due to COVID-19, the race was cancelled in 2020 – which would have marked the 40th Anniversary of the event which was restarted in 1980 to commemorate the Martyrdom of Tydfil 1600 years ago, and follows the route between the Forts of the Roman Legions stationed in Wales. A total 300 registered this year, including some people due to have run in 2020. Eventually, 216 completed the course and the winner was Samuel Jody Richards of Pontypridd Roadents, coming in at 1:40:45, first female was Kelly Bowen coming…

A framework to assess potential development sites has been prepared as part of work on a strategy that will guide the scale and location of new development in the county. Powys County Council has started a three-and-a-half-year process to prepare a new development plan which will cover all of Powys, excluding the Brecon Beacons National Park. The Replacement Local Development Plan (2022-2037) will be drawn up to take effect from March 2026 when the current Local Development Plan ends. The council is now seeking views on the framework, called the Candidate Sites Assessment Methodology, which will be used to help…