Author: Rhys Gregory

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and Innovate Finance, the industry body that represents the UK FinTech sector, reach agreement to connect their networks and collaborate on knowledge sharing, policy and insights. The collaboration between ACCA and Innovate Finance will bring together their natural synergies and will provide a platform for UK FinTech leaders to share information about their products and services with UK and international stakeholders, including those within ACCA’s community. ACCA is building an international online community of its members directly connected to Fintech to build a greater awareness of FinTech and drive the involvement of accountancy…

Cardiff Bus customers are being alerted to route diversions as a result of roadworks taking place in Tremorfa. Pengam Road between Rover Way and Clydesmuir Road will be closed from 8:00am on Saturday 25 June to 10:00pm on Sunday 26 June. As a result, the operator advises that services 1, 2, and 11 will be diverted. Service 1 will follow its normal route to Newport Road/Rover Way junction, then divert along Newport Road, Beresford Road and Moorland Road and will return to its normal route at Habershon Street. Bus stops on Rover Way, Storrar Road and Tweedsmuir Road will not…

Cardiff and Vale College’s Sport Academies have bounced back from the constraints placed on sport during the pandemic to celebrate their best-ever season in 2021-22. The Academies have seen more students getting involved as players than ever before and have brought home a record amount of silverware in regional and national competitions. The number of players receiving regional and national honours has also skyrocketed. This season saw the Basketball Academy win the Association of Colleges Welsh Basketball Championships after entering for the first time, progressing on to represent Wales Colleges Basketball at the AoC National Championships at Nottingham University. Captain…

Pupils at a primary school in Blackwood will be enjoying a brand-new forest area this summer, thanks to the generosity of a local business. Senior Flexonics Crumlin, a sales, engineering and innovation centre based in Pen-Y-Fan Industrial Estate was looking for a community environmental improvement project that their team could support. Libanus Primary School was the ideal choice as their forest area, Y Goedwig, had fallen into disrepair. Once the primary school was onboard, the team from Senior Flexonics Crumlin, led by HR Manager Claire Parsons, jumped into action, designing the new forest area, approaching local businesses for donations of…

A landmark city centre building in Cardiff is being given a full refurbishment and a sustainable upgrade to provide next generation office space that will be opening in August. Work is well underway on the newly rebranded Coal House, which was formerly Dumfries House on Dumfries Place, to transform it into a sustainable office development with an industrial chic aesthetic by investor and developer Create Real Estate. When complete, Coal House will offer between 3,000 – 30,000 sq. ft of flexible office space that is highly sustainable and focuses on tenant wellbeing.  The scheme looks to balance maximum retention of embodied carbon…

The University of South Wales (USW) has re-signed its strategic alliance with five Further Education (FE) partner colleges in the South East Wales region. The strategic alliance includes USW, Bridgend College, Cardiff and Vale College, Coleg Gwent, Coleg y Cymoedd, and The College Merthyr Tydfil. The alliance, which was originally signed more than nine years ago when USW was formed in 2013, is a vision and commitment from all partners to work together in the common endeavour to grow and create opportunities for learning, employment, and social inclusion. The strategic alliance will produce a collaborative, agreed plan of work on…

Work is set to commence on the first installations of new electric vehicle charging points across Bridgend County Borough. The installations, which have been funded through the Welsh Government’s Ultra Low Emission Vehicle (ULEV) Transformation fund and the Cardiff Capital Region will see charging points installed at the following locations: Brackla Street surface, Bridgend town centre Pencoed Railway Station Park & Ride Car Park Tremains Road Car Park, Bridgend town centre Neath Road, Heol Ty Gwyn, Maesteg Hillsboro Place Car Park, Porthcawl Eastern Promenade, Porthcawl The Rhiw Multi-Storey Car Park, Bridgend Maesteg Multi-Storey Car Park, Llynfi Road, Maesteg The Esplanade,…

Cardiff is the first Welsh city to be named a Tree City of the World in recognition of Cardiff Council’s Coed Caerdydd tree-planting programme which aims to increase tree canopy cover in the city to 25% by 2030. The Tree Cities of the world programme, founded by non-profit conservation and education organisation, the Arbor Day Foundation, aims to create more green spaces in urban areas by recognising cities that do it well. Cabinet Member for Culture, Parks and Events, Cllr Jennifer Burke-Davies, said: “20,000 trees have already been planted across the city in the first 6 months of our ambitious…

Aimed at securing funding worth nearly £138m to South West Wales over the next three years, a new regional investment plan is being produced. The plan now being put together by the region’s four local authorities will unlock money already earmarked for Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Swansea as part of the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund. In line with UK Government guidance, the plan is being developed through local strategic partnerships made up of public, private and voluntary sector organisations in each county. To help further shape the plan, all four local authorities will be seeking feedback from local people…

The third winner of Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Mash for Cash campaign has been announced. Karen Dear from Penyrheol has been announced as the third winner of Caerphilly County Borough’s Mash for Cash campaign. The Mash for Cash campaign was launched in March 2022 in line with Food Waste Action Week with an aim to increase the number of residents currently recycling their food waste. The campaign sees houses monitored with one food recycling participant chosen at random each month, with each winner receiving £500. The Local Authority hopes that the campaign will increase in food waste recycling, leading to…