Author: Rhys Gregory

THREE development programmes supporting key strategic themes of housing, skills, and digital connectivity within the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) have been agreed. The programmes, which were formally agreed by the CCR Cabinet at its meeting today (February 12), underpin the objectives and vision of CCR City Deal. Details of the development programmes are as follows: Regional Housing Investment Fund – recognising the need for more homes to be built in the region, the Regional Housing Investment Fund aims to support house building, ranging from larger builders and developers on stalled housing sites on former industrial sites, through to small builders,…

The First Campus team at Cardiff Metropolitan University are supporting Cardiff West Community High School, Ely, to highlight the need to implement a permanent recycling scheme to tie in with Go Green Week.

Once again, Bridgend College is in the running for another esteemed award this year.

One of the UK’s leading community dance organisations and charity, Cardiff based Rubicon Dance, has announced it will be taking over the former Roath Library building to accommodate its ambitious growth plans to expand its work in the community. Rubicon Dance, which is based in Adamsdown and is funded by the Arts Council for Wales, has provided community dance activities across South Wales for over 40 years, with existing community studios in Adamsdown. The organisation provides dance sessions in community centres, schools, day centres, hospitals and community venues across Cardiff, Newport and Penarth. By extending their work further, the organisation…

The Cynnal y Cardi Local Action Group (LAG) is looking for innovative community led project ideas that could make a real difference to the lives of people living and working in Ceredigion.

The Welsh Government and Arts Council of Wales  have today announced plans for a unique musical fund that will help open up new opportunities for children and young people.

Cardiff Metropolitan University has appointed leading technology pioneer Professor Jon Platts as Dean of its much-anticipated Cardiff School of Technologies. Professor Platts is a widely published, high level manager and Company Director with a breadth of industry and research experience in autonomous systems, machine intelligence and human computer integration. He will lead the ambitious multi-million pound Cardiff School of Technologies which will further establish Cardiff Metropolitan University as a world leader within the tech industry. The School’s strategy outlines plans to recruit 2,000 new students by 2024 aligned to the employment needs of South Wales’ growing tech sector and will…

Improving social mobility has long been a goal of successive governments in London and Cardiff Bay, and is a key issue in developing the professional accountants that we will need in the future.

Local fundraiser, Liz Davies, from Newbridge in Caerphilly, recently stepped out of her comfort zone and into the skies, to raise money for Cancer Research Wales.

Cancer Research Wales has risen to the critical challenge of early cancer diagnosis in Wales, and over the last 2 years alone has invested more than £1.25M in this area.