Author: Rhys Gregory

With more and more people interested in and participating in food production, and with growing at home at an all-time high due to COVID-19, now is a great time for small horticultural businesses to expand their ventures. To help grow smaller edible horticultural businesses operating in Wales, Food Sense Wales along with partners Social Farms & Gardens, are awarding up to six grants of between £2500 to £5000 to small businesses with no more than 5-Hectares of production land.  The grant application process is now open and the closing date for applications is midday, Monday 30th November 2020. This is…

As part of this year’s Explore Your Archives Week from November 21-29, The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth will unveil a series of new artistic and creative commissions. The pieces, which vary in style and medium, are inspired by library’s collections that can be found online. Explore Your Archives Week is a national celebration of the many treasures and stories that can be found in archival materials. The campaign, led by the Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland), aims to raise the profile of the collections held at local, national, university and private archives. The series of works commissioned will be published on…

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) were thrilled to be announced winners of the gold award for ‘Best UK digital transformation of a training programme in response to COVID-19’. The award reflected how HEIW utilised technology to provide rapid, responsive and remote learning materials to support the NHS Wales workforce during the Covid-19 pandemic. Central to this award was the development of Gwella – a digital leadership portal that was launched in August 2020. The judges said: “this was a hugely impressive and inspiring response to COVID-19. Not only does the programme demonstrate how effective and lasting digital transformation can…

A public house in Cardigan has been required to make improvements to safeguard the public’s health and well-being as part of the coronavirus regulations. A Premises Improvement Notice has been served to The Saddlers Arms, Cardigan by Ceredigion County Council’s Public Protection Officers due to non-compliance with the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 4) (Wales) Regulations 2020. As part of the Premises Improvement Notice, the public house must ensure that a distance of 2 metres is maintained between any persons on the premises, and take reasonable measures to ensure where persons are required to wait to enter the premises that…

Dr. Harrison Weisinger MBBS P.h.D., is a family doctor in Australia and has also worked in the UK, Europe and the US. Before he obtained his medical degree, he did a Masters and Ph.D. studying the effects of nutrition on brain development, bodyweight, and blood pressure. Throughout his working career as a medical doctor, university professor, and scientist,he has committed his life to improving human health. “​I’ve studied the effects of CBD for several years and find it to be one of the most powerful natural supplements out there” – ​Dr Harrison Weisinger (MB.BS, M.Sc., Ph.D.) Dr. Harry (​as he…

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A contractor has been appointed to reclad three of the city’s high rise blocks. Following a procurement process, Cardiff Council has awarded the contract for the improvement works to the three tower blocks at Lydstep flats in Llandaff North to ISG. Pre-construction work to deliver an enveloping solution to replace the cladding that was removed two years agoin the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, will begin shortly with the main work of recovering the blocks due to start in Spring 2021. Cladding was removed from five of the Council’s six high-rise blocks after testing showed thatwhile none of the buildings…

In what would typically be the busiest time of the year for one Cardiff restaurant, footfall is at a continuing low. Despite the opening of Cardiff’s annual Christmas market this past weekend, which seemed to offer some hope for hospitality in the city, one Cardiff business owner said it is going to be an extremely challenging winter. “Each year the festivities bring in the crowds in what is always the peak season for us. Despite reduced capacity in the restaurant, we had hoped that the coming weeks would offer us some respite but customers are definitely still hesitant. This has…

Viscose Closures has repaid a 7-figure finance package originally put in place in 2011 with Finance Wales (later to become to the Development Bank of Wales). This substantial investment provided the financial resources to purchase the company via a Management Buy-Out (MBO) and to successfully grow the business, invest in its manufacturing plant and product range, and to create additional employment in Swansea. All debt has been repaid to DBW, who remain a minority shareholder in the company. Viscose has been manufacturing in the UK for over 125 years and in Swansea for 70 years.  They are a leading manufacturer…