Author: Rhys Gregory

A business advisory service is re-launching a peer-to-peer board to encourage collaboration and provide support for owner-directors in North-East Wales. David Roberts of The Alternative Board (TAB) is bringing back its third peer board on 24 May, designed exclusively for businesspeople whose companies turnover between £5m and £10m, or those aspiring to do so. Led by David, who is also chair of the North Wales Regional Skills Partnership, the sessions allow up to six like-minded directors to exchange advice and discuss the shared problems they face. David is urging those interested to not delay taking their seat, as places at…

A Rhyl-based community interest company is making signature moves to challenge mental health discrimination at work by formalising its commitment to employee care and integrating it into its workplace culture. RCS, which delivers funded wellbeing services to employees and employers across North and West Wales to prevent and reduce sickness absence from work, has strengthened its own internal support to staff by signing an organisational pledge as part of the Time To Change Wales (TTCW) campaign. The initiative is dedicated to breaking discrimination and the stigma around mental health within Wales, empowering organisations to hold themselves accountable when providing wellbeing…

Business Butler has partnered with Chambers Wales South East, South West and Mid to host Business Mindset, on 12 May 2022 at Cornerstone, Cardiff. Headlined by international motivational speaker Jim Steele, the conference will include workshops, networking and entertainment throughout the day, all focused on business mindset and how it can be used to drive business growth. Sponsored by KAI, the conference is the first event of its kind held by Swansea-based Business Butler, a web-based business matching platform connecting small business users with vetted and appropriate business experts from their local area. It is also their first joint enterprise…

A heart attack survivor from Cwm-y-glo, near Caernarfon has raised over £2,000 after organising a fundraising Elvis tribute concert to raise awareness of the condition and give back to others in support of life-saving heart research. Vera Price, 74, believes she owes her life to the care she received at Ysbyty Gwynedd and Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool after her heart-attack and subsequent triple heart bypass last September. Having made a good recovery, she wanted to raise money for the British Heart Foundation to fund lifesaving research. The show was held at the Padarn Hotel, Llanberis in March and featured local performer…

A senior nurse is taking patient safety into the digital era with the support of a charity named after the profession’s most famous leading light. Lisa Graham is the Deputy Head of Nursing for medicine in Singleton and Neath Port Talbot hospitals. Every morning the nine medical wards hold what is known as a safety huddle, during which any issues involving patient or staff safety are raised. As the wards are spread across two sites, this is done virtually, with the information collated into a spreadsheet. Now Lisa is looking to create a live and interactive digital version, which will improve…

Welsh food wholesaler Castell Howell and the new Swansea Arena will be the principal sponsors for Swansea University at this year’s Welsh Varsity returns. Both sponsors will feature on the men’s and women’s rugby jerseys for their respective matches against Cardiff University this week. Their sponsorship will also see representatives presenting the Varsity jerseys to both the men’s and women’s squads ahead of the showpiece event, as well as dual campus digi-screen advertising. The Welsh Varsity is a week-long festival of sport with students competing in more than 30 sports including swimming, golf, football, netball, hockey and fencing and this…

Tŷ Hafan’s Weddings Day Event in Abergavenny on Saturday 30 April – for dresses that, quite literally, don’t cost the earth. Wedding season is upon us and for those people still planning their big day, Tŷ Hafan children’s hospice charity shop in Abergavenny has something special coming up which may well prove to be as good for your purse as for your soul. The shop at 55 Frogmore Street, Abergavenny, has a dedicated bridal wear section and on Saturday 30 April staff and volunteers there will be hosting a special wedding themed day to launch the huge range of new and…

The Welsh Parliament’s Petitions Committee is set to discuss calls for a new plan for palliative and end of life care today, after more than 2,000 people signed the petition submitted by two leading charities. The End of Life Care Delivery Plan ended on March 31, but despite a previous commitment from Welsh Government to prioritise care for the dying, Wales is now without a plan for those people for the first time in a decade, as a replacement is yet to be published. Marie Curie and the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association launched a petition calling for a new…

Tourism and hospitality organisations have offered the Welsh Government their expert insight to protect legitimate self-catering holiday businesses from unintended consequences of proposals to clamp down on second home ownership in Wales. Wales Tourism Alliance (WTA), UK Hospitality Cymru (UKHC) and Professional Association of Self Caterers UK (PASC UK) are calling on the Welsh Government to heed new evidence collected in a survey of more than 1,500 self-catering businesses, across Wales. The survey, compiled jointly by the three membership organisations, has been sent to all Members of the Senedd, all Welsh MPs, Visit Wales and key stakeholders. It represents the…

M.R.S. Communications Ltd has partnered with Swansea BID (Business Improvement District) to invest in state-of-the-art technology to keep its members and the public safe in Swansea City Centre. Based in South Wales, M.R.S. Communications is a market leader in radio networks for retail and night-time economy businesses throughout the UK and specialise in providing high quality two-way radio systems. The company is behind the revolutionary StoreNet and NiteNet radio surveillance systems which allow businesses to communicate and work together to manage and prevent crime. M.R.S. Communications has teamed up with Swansea BID to replace the region’s current radio network with…