Author: Rhys Gregory

Rockadove Video Production and Wales Council for Voluntary Action partner to showcase the power of video marketing. [aoa id=”1″] Charities, social enterprise and not-for-profit organisation in Wales will win a £10,000 video marketing campaign in the inaugural Rockadove Third Sector Prize, launched last week. Leading Welsh video production agency, Rockadove is giving away the £10K video project as part of the company’s tenth year celebrations. Working in partnership with Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA), the prize will see a third sector organisation supported with a complete video marketing campaign worth £10,000 – devised, scripted, produced, distributed and evaluated by…

Those interested in industrial history and Welsh heritage will be able to discover the sights and sounds of Victorian Blaenavon this spring, with the unveiling of an advanced digital project at the world-renowned Blaenavon World Heritage Site. In partnership with Big Pit National Coal Museum, Torfaen County Borough Council  has launched a brand-new 360⁰ virtual reality experience, which allows users to experience life as it was in the Blaenavon World Heritage Site during the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring real characters from Blaenavon’s industrial past, the ‘Time Travel in the Blaenavon World Heritage Site’ experience uses audio storytelling and three-dimensional…

THE Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) is launching a graduate scheme to enhance productivity, innovation and economic growth among businesses in South East Wales and promote the region as a destination for talented graduates. [aoa id=”1″] £175,000 has been allocated by the CCR Regional Cabinet for a one-year pilot of the scheme which will provide targeted support for businesses to assist in creating an initial 50 graduate internships in 2019/2020. The programme has been developed in partnership with the University of South Wales, Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, the Open University in Wales, and business representative groups in response to the…

A WREXHAM finance firm director is donning his walking boots to take part in a marathon charity trek in the mountains of Montenegro. Medwyn Edwards, Joint Founding Director of Hadlow Edwards Wealth Management, has signed up for the three-day, three-peak, 40-mile coastal challenge along the Dinaric Alps in Montenegro. It will be his second trip to one of the world’s smallest countries which borders  Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. Well known for its spectacular coastline, half of Montenegro is covered in thick forest which is home to wolves, bears, lynxes and wildcats. His aim is to raise around £4,000…

A local Assembly Member has met concerned parents at the school gates of Ysgol Caer Elen in Haverfordwest (Monday 25 March 2019), to hear their road safety issues. Parents had asked her to come and witness ‘school run’ traffic chaos, as they drop and collect their children near the 40 miles per hour Withybush Road. The new Welsh-medium school for three to 16-year-olds opened last September, and is located near the 50 miles per hour A40. Joyce Watson AM, who lives in Haverfordwest, was told of an incident involving a mum collecting her child. She was told that, as the…

This week, South Wales Police and Gwent Police welcomed their very first cohort of new recruits under the new Policing Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF). This is a new professional framework for the training of police officers. New officer recruits will now join either on the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA) or the Degree Holder Entry Scheme (DHEP), which comes as part of national changes to police officer recruitment from the College of Policing – the professional body for the police service in Wales and England. Working together, the four Welsh forces together became early adopters of the PEQF new initial…

Hay Festival has announced the programme for its 32nd edition in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, 23 May to 2 June (hayfestival.org). Booking is open to Friends of Hay Festival online or on 01497 822 629. Public booking opens Friday 29 March. Award-winning writers gather to launch new work, while global policy makers, pioneers and innovators seek solutions to the biggest issues of our time, from the rise of populism to the climate crisis. Featuring over 600 speakers in events across 11 days, the festival also offers a vibrant schedule of late-night music, comedy and entertainment for all ages alongside HAYDAYS and #HAYYA…

People with cancer living in deprived areas of Wales are more likely to have another serious illness or disorder at diagnosis than those in the least deprived areas, according to new research by Macmillan Cancer Support and Public Health Wales’ Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit. This could make it more difficult for NHS services to diagnose cancer early in these patients, as well as present challenges for services that plan and deliver cancer treatment. The research, the first of its kind in Wales, and believed to be the first of its kind in the UK, reveals at least one…

A fully funded after-work programme designed to support people into starting businesses is set to launch in Merthyr and Ebbw Vale. The 5 to 9 Club™ aims to support individuals with an idea and help them turn it into a fully fledged business by equipping them with the skills and knowledge they will need to launch and grow. The workshops are held once a week from 5pm to 9pm, to allow those who work full time to gain the experience and support needed to grow their business idea without taking the risk of giving up full-time employment. The clubs are…

A new fintech software company set up to transform the consumer lending journey has “revolutionised” access to environmentally friendly home improvement loans for the Green Deal Finance Company (GDFC). [aoa id=”1″] Cardiff-based start-up SamePage was chosen by the GDFC, originally a Government scheme and now a privately-owned green fintech lender supporting homeowners to invest in renewable energy and products, to create a new online loans applications system. SamePage, which was set up in 2017, was chosen to partner with GDFC to develop a dynamic platform that would deliver efficient application processing, with effective and consistent credit decisioning and underwriting, in…