Author: Rhys Gregory

Acorn Recruitment marked World Homeless Day 2019 as the first corporate partner signed up to the World’s Big Sleep Out event in Wales this December. The UK recruiter is joining forces with the Welsh version of the global scheme ahead of a mass ‘sleep out’ at Cardiff Castle, as well as at Rodney Parade in Newport, on December 7th. Members of the public will join a host of well-known faces for music, entertainment and even the odd bedtime story to help create the world’s largest display of solidarity with those experiencing homelessness and displacement across the globe. Around 50,000 people…

Broadcaster and writer Carol Vorderman MBE will host the inaugural National Children of Wales Awards. The star-studded event scheduled for April 3, 2020, will celebrate the inspirational achievements of children across Wales. The National Children of Wales Awards have been founded and launched by Blanche Sainsbury, chair of Bluestone National Park Resort, and the Bluestone Foundation, the company’s charitable foundation. The awards will culminate in a gala dinner at the Celtic Manor on April 3, 2020, hosted by Carol Vorderman MBE and Welsh rugby legend Ian Gough. The organisers aim to raise £100,000 at the event, which will be distributed…

Redkite Solicitors, one of the largest legal firms in the south-west and Wales, has opened new state-of-the-art premises on Stonehouse’s High Street. The firm, which acquired the Phoenix Legal Group in 2017, has moved from its current base at 40 High Street to occupy the former Barclays bank building at number 54. Redkite, which also has local branches in Stroud and Dursley, has invested over £40,000 in a full refurbishment of the building. The Grade II listed building, which has been empty since the bank vacated it over two years ago, has undergone a full interior makeover. The 2475 square…

Tickets are now on sale for National Theatre Wales and Hijinx Unity Festival’s Mission Control – a brand-new production to be staged in the heart of the Welsh capital, at one of Wales’ greatest landmarks, the Principality Stadium. Directed by Kully Thiarai, Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales and Ben Pettitt-Wade, Artistic Director of Hijinx Theatre, Mission Control is a brand-new, guided, immersive show like no other. In a world where everyone creates their own truth, who can we trust, and who gets to make the choices about our future? Mission Control will feature an inclusive cast of over 80 performers…

Promotional products supplier PA Promotions has purchased a warehouse on the Capital Business Park in Wentloog, Cardiff. The company has acquired the 2,793 sq ft Unit Q1 on a 950 year lease for £175,000 from vendor AMUSF Property Limited, which was advised in the transaction by property consultancy Knight Frank. Rachael Brown of Knight Frank in Cardiff said: “The end-of terrace warehouse unit has offices on two floors and proved ideal for PA Promotions’ requirements.” PA Promotions was formed in 1981 and provides branded promotional items – including pens, mugs, stationery, bags and umbrellas – to clients including the Welsh…

The founder of an innovative group of companies, which expects to double its profit within two years, has won the Powys Entrepreneurship Award. Richard Glover-Davies, who established GloverSure Ltd in Welshpool in 2004, collected the accolade, sponsored by the Welsh Government, at the annual Powys Business Awards dinner held at Dering Lines, Brecon last Friday night. Organised by Mid Wales Manufacturing Group, the awards showcase business excellence across Powys. “It’s a great honour to win this award because Powys is where I was brought up and now have a business,” said Richard. “Many other website companies have moved to cities,…

THE Welsh Ambulance Service honoured its staff and volunteers at its fourth annual Staff Awards ceremony this week (Wednesday 09 October 2019). More than 300 guests gathered at Cardiff City Hall to celebrate the contributions of long-serving staff, as well as the winners of category awards, including the new Team of the Year Award and Welsh Language Award. In the ceremony hosted by Welsh tenor Wynne Evans, the Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan, Mrs Morfudd Meredith, presented Her Majesty the Queen’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medals as well as the awards for 20, 30 and 40 years of service.…

Sharp – part of UDG Healthcare plc, a Dublin-based global leader in contract packaging and clinical supply services, cut the ribbon on the state-of the-art Clinical Services Centre of Excellence at today’s ceremony, enabling the company to now offer an extended range of primary and secondary drug packaging, storage and distribution services from the site. Development of the site began in 2017 and following a successful inspection by the UK’s medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in early 2019, the new facility is fully operational. This milestone coincides with Sharp celebrating over thirty years in the…

A young entrepreneur from Aberystwyth has started her a vocal coaching business with plans to open her own vocal studio. Magdalena Mazur, 26 and originally from Poland, has been so overwhelmed with new clients since launching her vocal coaching business, Vocalize, she’s been able to increase her working hours from part time to full time. She started the business with the help of Big Ideas Wales, the youth entrepreneurship service in Wales. Vocalize predominately offers vocal coaching on a one-to-one basis, but Magdalena has also introduced group workshops locally in Aberystwyth. Magdalena said: “I’ve been singing my whole life, but…

A teenager from Afonwen is among a group of young entrepreneurs are launching a new range of eco-friendly products at a food festival. The students from the Northop campus of Coleg Cambria will be selling fruit bowls made from vinyl LP records, herbs planted in empty food cans and coasters made from Scrabble tiles at Llangollen Food Festival on Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20. The team, who have additional learning needs, won a competition organised by the festival for students on Independent Living Skills (ILS) to win a stall at the popular annual event, along with a cash…