Author: Rhys Gregory

As part of Occupational Therapy Week 2019, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) has launched a new campaign, ‘Small Change, Big Impact’, which celebrates how the small changes occupational therapists make can have a big impact on the people they support. Occupational Therapy Week 2019 takes place from 4 to 10 November and is a national awareness week run by RCOT to promote the value of occupational therapists and the fantastic work that they do across the UK. Taking the campaign as its theme, this year’s Occupational Therapy Week will showcase and champion the impact of occupational therapy and…

At a time when uncertainty about our future is impacting on business confidence, Business in Focus has committed to a large-scale property investment in the South Wales Valleys and Wrexham. A strong acquisition strategy has yielded results as the social enterprise increases the size of its portfolio by 67%, taking it from 227k to nearly 380k square feet, increasing its provision of affordable office space to growing numbers of small businesses. Since its inception more than 30 years ago, the company has been at the forefront of business advice and support in South Wales. Speaking of the investment, Chief Executive,…

Award-winning agency jamjar has been appointed to two new public sector design frameworks. The Cowbridge-based agency has been added to the Welsh Government’s Communication and Marketing Framework for Creative Design and Branding services and Bath and North East Somerset Council’s Framework for Graphic Design Services. The four-year Welsh Government Framework will see jamjar provide creative design and branding services to the Welsh Government in areas including Education, Health, Business & Tourism, Natural Resources, Communities, Culture and Sport. The framework can also be used by bodies funded by Welsh Government including Local Authorities in Wales; NHS Wales health boards; Higher and…

Transport for Wales is pleased to announce that Vernon Everitt, a Managing Director with Transport for London, has joined Transport for Wales as a Non-Executive Director. Vernon has worked for TfL for over twelve years where he is Managing Director for Customers, Communication and Technology, and is currently interim Managing Director for London Underground and TfL Engineering. At TfL, he is responsible for customer and technology/data strategies and their delivery. With a focus on putting the customer at the heart of operations, he is accountable for fares and payment operations, contact centres, customer information, marketing and customer insight, media relations,…

Swansea University Medical School has welcomed a new researcher under a prestigious European scheme. Dr Rémi Zallot successfully applied for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission and will be hosted by the Medical School’s Centre for Cytochrome P450 Biodiversity for the next two years. His expertise in mining microbial genomes using bioinformatics to hypothesise functions for uncharacterised genes as well as test the proposed functions was developed during his previous stay at University of Illinois’s Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and at University of Florida’s Department of Microbiology and Cell Science. Dr Zallot will be…

That is the message from NatWest Cymru which says businesses started by women average 50% less starting capital than men and receive less than 1% in venture capital. They are also substantially less likely to reach a business turnover of over £1m compared to men. To help challenge these figures and empower more women entrepreneurs, the bank has teamed-up with Darwin Gray Solicitors, the University of South Wales, and the Federation of Small Businesses to run a free event featuring award-winning financial planner and money coach Catherine Morgan. It’s About Time We Talked About Money takes place on November 22…

Cash seized from crooks will be used to help children and young people escape the clutches of County Lines gangs exploiting them to sell drugs in communities across North Wales. Tackling serious and organised crime will be a priority for the special £40,000 fund set up by North Wales and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones with the support of North Wales Police and the North Wales Police and Crime Trust (PACT). Half the money will be contributed by the commissioner with the rest coming from a pot of cash confiscated from criminals via the Proceeds of Crime Act. The aim of the…

Swansea Bay Business Club is assisting in delivering a free business briefing in partnership with the Bank of England Agency for Wales on Friday 15th November. The club will welcome Dr Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, as guest speaker at the event, which goes ahead at the Village Hotel, Swansea. Dr Ben Broadbent became Deputy Governor in 2014. Prior to that, he was an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee. In addition to his membership of the Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee and Prudential Regulation Committee, he has specific responsibility within the Bank for Monetary Policy,…

Jason Farrell, 49, has today been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 26 years for the murder of Sammy Lee Lodwig, and a 14-year term for GBH assault on Christopher Maher, to run concurrently. Sammy Lee died following the incident in the Mount Pleasant area of Swansea on April 23. Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Chief Inspector Darren George from South Wales Police’s Major Crime Team, said: “Sammy Lee was a young woman whose life was tragically taken away after a sustained, brutal and violent attack at the hands of a person who she trusted. “The jury found that Jason…

A RECRUITMENT day is being held on November 7 for new staff at Luxury Lodges’ Laugharne Resort. The investment will see the current 77 lodges at the resort being expanded to 125, and a new, state-of-the-art £6million clubhouse, boasting an infinity swimming pool, outside hydrotherapy pool, a panoramic sauna, and an elevated restaurant and bar. The recruitment day, hosted at Broadway Country House Hotel, Laugharne, is initially looking to fill a first round of roles, including spa therapists, kitchen staff and more. Sharon Hurley, founder of Luxury Lodges, said: “These are extremely exciting plans which will not only be improving…