Author: Rhys Gregory

Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society’s Board of Trustees were delighted to receive an award from PAVS (Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services) recently for their determination to hold the county show last year. PAVS formally presented the Trustee Award from the 2021 Pembrokeshire Volunteering Awards to the category winners, Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society, at the Society’s recent AGM. The award judges were astounded by the determination of Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society’s Board of Trustees to put on last year’s two-day county show in incredibly challenging circumstances in order to give members of the rural community the chance to come together and showcase their animals. The…

Years of lockdown has affected the construction industry significantly, despite many restrictions in place the industry has been at the forefront of the economic recovery supporting the economy with the highest activity levels recorded for the past seven years. Increasing demand for building materials has strained the availability of several highly desired materials where some experiencing significant inflation like never before.  Builders faced a real challenge getting materials, especially bricks, blocks, timber, and roofing tiles. Builders’ merchants were working hard to stay ahead and make sure they can supply their loyal customers with the building materials they need. Brexit was…

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…