Author: Rhys Gregory

Community Foundation Wales has awarded over £5.5 million in funding to groups across Wales to help them to support their local communities through the Coronavirus pandemic. The scale of this emergency support for the third sector in Wales is revealed in Community Foundation Wales’ Coping with Covid-19 report published today. As an independent Welsh charity, Community Foundation Wales is well placed to help communities to respond to a local emergency or crisis. Whilst they have done that in the past in the case of local incidents, this is the first time that they have had to galvanise rapid Wales-wide support to…

COLEG CAMBRIA will be at the heart of a self-care and mindfulness reformation in the aftermath of the Coronavirus pandemic. The college has developed a revolutionary new Wellness Hub at its revamped Yale site in Wrexham, a facility aiming to unite charities, third sector organisations and local youth groups with students and the public. As well as the pilot Dance for Parkinson’s programme – in conjunction with English National Ballet and NDC (National Dance Company) Wales – there will be an emphasis on arts, creativity, and community. Inclusion Manager Lizzie Stevens says the state-of-the art complex is a stunning base…

A Carmarthenshire family is hoping to raise £10,000 to fund clinical research into Motor Neurone Disease (MND).   Bob Gledhill, 52, his wife, Dr Lowri Davies, and son, Will, 16, have pledged to raise the money just months after Bob was diagnosed with the life-shortening illness.   The family, who live in Rhyd-ar-gaeau near Carmarthen, have launched the ‘Motoron Cymru’ challenge, which will see them take on the Welsh Three Peaks, cycling between each peak, over the weekend of 2-4 July 2021.   Money raised from the challenge will go towards the ‘My Name’5 Doddie Foundation’, set up by former Scottish rugby international,…

ONE of the UK’s leading actuarial and pension consulting firms, Quantum Advisory, has partnered with Cardiff University’s Career Mentoring Scheme in a bid to develop young professionals. Launched in January 2021, the Career Mentoring Scheme places students with mentors from varying professional fields in order to give them further understanding of their chosen field, real career guidance and general support. Three employees at Quantum Advisory, all of whom attended Cardiff University, applied to be mentors and are now in the process of completing six sessions over a four-month period with a matched mentee. Charlie Laundon joined Quantum Advisory in 2017…

Tesco colleagues across Wales will be in the pink this weekend to show support for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. ‘Tesco Turns Pink’, the supermarket chain’s national annual fundraiser, will be taking place on April 23, 24 and 25, when thousands of Tesco colleagues from across the UK will be helping to raise funds for life-saving research. Across the weekend, fundraising activities to mark the 20th anniversary are planned in stores, including fixed donation stations and customer collections alongside staff members wearing pink to work in exchange for a small donation. David Ford, communications manager for Tesco, said: “Race…

Zoom! 1hr Delivery has had a meteoric expansion across the UK in the last year and they have now launched their sub one-hour delivery service in Barry. Co-op have chosen the delivery business as their logistics partner in the Barry area for their mass roll out of food delivery across rural regions. Customers using the service will receive their grocery order within 2 hours of placing their order. Thanks to this prestigious contract Zoom 1hr has been able to roll out their own on-demand delivery service to food outlets in the local area including restaurants, fast food chains and independent…

You likely canceled most of the public activities you used to do before the emergence of COVID-19. In many places, you would struggle to enter any public place without a face mask. Moreover, authorities now demand complete adherence to social distancing rules in public. Curfews and lockdowns were also frequent occurrences. Consequently, it has become next to impossible to visit gambling casinos. In Australia, just as in other parts of the world, gamblers cannot visit their favorite casinos because of COVID-19. Less Addiction The ongoing situation with COVID-19 in Australia made life much different from before. Thus far, the nation…

Dissertation Proposal – The Basics Before writing your research paper, proposing a research plan to your advisor is among the first steps. That plan is a ‘blueprint’ of sorts for how you will be going on about your research. Called a dissertation proposal, it comprises the following components: Introduction to your research topic, aims, and objectives Literature review Outline of methods and methodology Discussion of your research’s possible implications Bibliography This dissertation proposal portrays a picture in your advisor’s mind about how you will be approaching your topic. Once approved, a dissertation proposal paves the way for the actual research…

The pandemic and the associated lockdown measures have had an enormously damaging effect on the Welsh economy, and the retail sector has been particularly badly effected. With Welsh shoppers being physically prevented from visiting brick-and-mortar stores, they’ve been forced instead to look to online alternatives. The effect on an already ailing high street has been little short of disastrous. As the phased relaxation of the lockdown measures unfolds across the country, shoppers have flooded back into town centres. According to Springboard, a retail consultant, footfall was around 16% lower in Cardiff than the same date in 2019 – suggesting that…

TRIBUTES have been paid to a Welsh Ambulance Service call handler who has passed away at the age of 28. Louise Thomas was a 999 EMS Call Handler based in Cwmbran, having joined the Trust in August 2019. Louise, from Cefn Hengoed, had a genetic condition and had recently been diagnosed with cancer, for which she was receiving treatment. She passed away at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff on 09 April. Penny Durrant, the Trust’s Clinical Contact Centre Manager in Cwmbran, said: “Louise was a popular and valued member of the team, and despite the challenges with her…