Author: Rhys Gregory

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded almost £3 million (£2,742,400) to 54 organisations in Wales as part of an emergency support package for the UK’s heritage sector. The money raised from The National Lottery will help address immediate pressures over the next few months for those organisations most affected by the repercussions of COVID-19. The Heritage Emergency Fund (HEF) grants range between £3,000 and £250,000. Some of the organisations in Wales receiving HEF funding include: The Wildlife Trust of South West Wales, Bridgend (£194,900) The South Wales Miners Museum, Neath Port Talbot (£9,800) The Cynon Valley Museum Trust, Rhondda Cynon…

One of the UK’s leading floodlighting and electrical installation and maintenance organisations has appointed a new Director to help support its exciting growth plans. Following a company restructure earlier in the year, South Wales-based Floodlighting and Electrical has appointed Gareth Roberts, former Commercial Director at Warwickshire County Cricket Club, to shape and lead its ambitious business strategy. With his experience in overseeing significant growth in his previous role, Mr Roberts will focus on progressing the commercial, personnel and operations sides of the business. Roberts said: “This is a rare opportunity to be joining a company of Floodlighting and Electrical’s calibre.…

Winners, Nova Theatre’s contemporary play about rugby and love, has been adapted into an audio drama and is now available to stream online free. As the remaining Six Nations games loom and the Autumn Tournament is fast approaching, Nova Theatre’s comedy drama Winners shines a spotlight on rugby and gender roles in Wales, told through a couple who have got their priorities wrong, who want to change, but don’t know how. Artistic Director of Nova Theatre Lowri Jenkins has written the piece, and also performs it alongside Oliver Morgan-Thomas. Winners is about a couple, Cassie and Dafydd. Cassie is from…

With the new football season now in full flow, sports series CIC (Kick) returns to S4C. CIC is back with a new series on Friday 25 September at 5.30pm and continues every Friday on S4C’s Stwnsh service for children and young people. Presenter Heledd Anna and ex Wales international footballer Owain Tudur Jones return to front the series. This year’s series is full of stars, with Angharad James, Ethan Ampadu, Daniel James, Natasha Harding, Kieffer Moore, Owain Fôn Williams, Helen Ward and Swansea City defender Ben Cabango, the latest player to win his first senior cap under manager Ryan Giggs,…

Cardiff-based digital marketing agency, Liberty Marketing, has bucked the agency trend and secured an extra £1m in revenue since the beginning of lockdown, as well as winning eight new major clients. Liberty is one of the few agencies that rather than making a loss, furloughs or redundancies, has instead grown. The agency is now up over 30% on where they were in March, putting them on track for their annual growth target set in January. As well as winning projects close to home such as Motonovo Finance and Target Group, the agency has also won and grown the accounts of…

South Wales Police can confirm that the man found injured in Thornhill earlier this week (Tuesday, September 15) has died. Emergency services were called to Thornhill Road where a man was found injured in the road near the Excalibur Drive roundabout at around 10.45pm last night. It appears the man had come off his pushbike. The road was closed for a number of hours. Next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained Family Liaison Officers. Enquiries are continuing to establish the exact circumstances of the incident. Anyone with information is asked to please contact South Wales…

A digital marketing consultancy based in Aberystwyth battled through lockdown to help keep 1100 clients across the UK afloat. InSynch, established in 2005, which also has a headquarters in Shropshire, provides marketing services to a variety of sectors, as well as mentoring, training and consultancy to government and EU funded programs. When lockdown hit, all the training courses the company was set to deliver to government bodies and EU programmes stopped immediately. CEO, Eddy Webb, said: “A third of our digital marketing retainers were wiped out within two weeks, our main source of income, and projections showed this could fall…

RSPCA Cymru has launched an appeal for information after a tabby cat lost his front left leg following an “horrific” injury caused by an illegal gin trap in Abercynon.  The small cat – named Pickles – was found by window cleaners hiding beneath wooden pallets in the playground of Abercynon Community Primary School on Tuesday 1 September. It is thought the trapped cat dragged himself to the school with his leg held by the device. He had been missing since the previous Friday, and his owners fear he therefore had spent many days caught in the illegal device. Sadly, Pickles’…

Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, Lord Elis-Thomas has today announced a funding package to support Wales’ sport and leisure sector.   The ‘Sport and Leisure Recovery Fund’ will support the sector with the ongoing challenges resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic and provide longer-term sustainability. The fund is intended to provide essential support to sports clubs and organisations, independent providers and sporting events who have all faced significant challenges during the crisis and continue to be severely impacted. The fund will help in driving innovation for local authority leisure centres and Leisure Trusts to complement the Hardship Fund for local…

Three envoys passionate about Wales have been appointed by the Welsh Government to promote the country abroad. Minister for International Relations Eluned Morgan said she was ‘honoured’ to appoint them to their roles. The envoys are a part of the Welsh Government’s International Strategy, a key feature of which is to raise the profile of the nation around the world. Through working with high profile and respected individuals the Welsh Government hopes to spark and increase the engagement of the Welsh diaspora, which is made up of alumni and friends of Wales in other countries. It is hoped this will…