Author: Rhys Gregory

Nowadays, business influencers affect how people run their businesses. These influencers are role models for both seasoned and budding business people. Here are the top five influencers from different industries. Richard Branson Richard Branson is one of the world’s renowned billionaires. He is also a popular influencer marketing personality. Actually, Branson founded the Virgin Group and has an empire consisting of over 400 companies, including record stores, airlines, and publishing companies. Also, he is the author of a dozen business best-selling books, including the popular autobiography that features the ups and downs of Branson’s fifty-year career. After completing a Virgin…

Your pension pot is the total amount of contributions you save during your working life and any capital growth you earn from your fund’s investments. Your fund provider should update you annually on how much your pension pot is, and you can also request a report or visit their website for updates. To put it simply, your pension pot is the fruit of your hard work, so you have to use it wisely. This article will give you a glimpse of everything you need to know about your pension pot. When can you withdraw money from your pension pot? Pension…

The question of safety on the internet is quite important nowadays. Every time you surf the Net, websites are collecting your data, based on your IP address. First of all, it’s the user’s location. What does it mean? Some web sites may be blocked by your internet provider and gaining their resources with a straight connection to your country’s IP will be impossible. Besides, such informational prints are enough for attempting to hack a person’s device by web criminals. Hiding your IP became a really big deal. One of ways to avoid these problems – to get access to blocked…

When you think about martial arts, the first thing that comes to mind is probably someone punching and kicking in a dojo or training gym. But what many people don’t realize is that martial arts are not just about fighting. It’s also about discipline, focus, and respect. And one of the most important tools in a martial artist’s arsenal is the judo mat. In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of a good quality judo mat in martial arts training. Are you Training Martial Arts? If yes, then you are probably familiar with the training principles associated with…

A South Wales law firm has been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture. Watkins & Gunn Solicitors, which has offices in Cardiff, Newport and Pontypool, were announced as one of the 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces™ at an awards ceremony in London. To determine the 2022 UK Best Workplaces™ list, Great Place to Work® perform rigorous evaluations of hundreds of employee survey responses alongside Culture Audit™ submissions from leaders at each company. The data is then used to benchmark the effectiveness of companies’ employee value propositions against the…

Award-winning charity City Hospice’s Forever Flowers campaign officially launched at the Senedd, home of the Welsh parliament, on April 25. Families and patients supported by the charity joined volunteers, campaign sponsors and politicians to celebrate the launch of Forever Flowers at the event sponsored by Jenny Rathbone MS. Palliative care patient Amy-Claire Davies, who has been under the care of City Hospice for nearly 8 years, was among the speakers at the event. Amy-Claire regularly documents her life living with an incurable degenerative disease and its daily symptoms of pain, nausea, seizures and fatigue as @the_incurable_optimist with her 36,000+ TikTok…

Insight HRC, business psychology and leadership consultancy, has been bought out by its senior management team, which has been in place for over a decade, Pip Gwynn, Jemma MacLean, Jessica Cooper and Laura Di Rienzo. Established more than 25 years ago, Insight HRC has grown under the stewardship of its founder John Lazarus and co-owner, Simon Wiltshire. The award-winning consultancy supplies leadership development, psychometric assessment, culture change and team development for some of the UK’s biggest companies and public sector organisations, including Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust and Western Power. Insight HRC has a team of…

Christ College Brecon is launching its ambitious 2041 Mountain Challenge this May which will invite intrepid individuals to push themselves to their limits and take on one of three different hiking routes around the Brecon Beacons. The Challenge will then be held annually up until 2041 which will mark the school’s 500th anniversary, and will raise money year-on-year for the Christ College Brecon Foundation, which funds students’ bursaries, and Brecon Mountain Rescue. Sponsored by Sam Hawking Property Lawyers, the routes will be manned by the Brecon Mountain Rescue team, while Fabian4, a specialist mountain event company, will be providing individual…

Pioneering Welsh bar & restaurant group and Spanish food importer Ultracomida has expanded on its wine retail offering – with investment in a Cardiff ‘wine warehouse’ which will be open to both trade and the general public by summer 2022. The independent boutique operators are well known for bringing a casual dining style influenced by Northern Spain to Wales, through their award-winning wine shops, delis, and restaurants in Wales; Ultracomida in Narberth and Aberystwyth, and Curado Bar and Vermut in the Welsh capital. More recently, wine retail has become a major focus for the group, with more than 4,500 sq ft of warehousing space acquired in Aberystwyth…

To celebrate Deaf Awareness Week (2-8 May), Careers Wales has announced its free and impartial support will be accessible to the British Sign Language (BSL) community from Tuesday 3 May. Careers Wales has teamed up with SignVideo, the UK’s leading BSL video interpreting service, to better support the deaf and BSL community in accessing Careers Wales services. The service will initially be available Wales-wide through the Careers Wales Connect contact centre. It will later be available in-person at centres in Aberystwyth, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Llandudno, Newport, Newtown, Swansea and Wrexham. The final phase will be rolled out to all…