Merthyr Tydfil News
A scheme to help local entrepreneurs launch successful businesses is reaping dividends in Merthyr Tydfil – while giving 13 vacant premises a new lease of life.
There is a need for more foster families in Merthyr Tydfil. The urgent call for people who think they have the skills and experience to offer caring and stable homes to children and young people who cannot live with their birth family comes at the start of Foster Care FortnightTM, run by the UK’s leading fostering charity The Fostering Network.
Merthyr Tydfil’s Cyfarthfa Castle, its park and the surrounding areas should be developed as an industrial heritage centre of international significance, in line with its place in history, according to a report published today (Wednesday 9 May) by the Design Commission for Wales.
St Tydfil Shopping Centre is delighted to announce the groups chosen as finalists for its next St Tydfil Cares Community Fund giveaway and is encouraging the local community to vote for who they would like to receive a £200 voucher for Edwards Coaches.
A campaign has been launched across Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf to let people know what healthcare services are available in their local community. The #YourLocalTeam initiative from Cwm Taf University Health Board highlights the range of professionals who can help patients, without a need to go to the doctor first.
Cwm Taf University Health Board is working with NHS Blood and Transplant to promote organ donation to all its staff, patients and visitors.
The launch of additional children’s phlebotomy clinics within the community is helping to speed up waiting times and allowing patients to receive more care closer to home.
A web-based suite of educational resources has been developed by a consultant surgeon in Merthyr Tydfil to support patients through complex illnesses.
Trago Mills has officially opened in Merthyr Tydfil, bring with it more than 200,000 items across 38 departments and creating 350 jobs in the process.
A unique, free business school that gives participants the tools to start their own business without capital or funding is touring Wales for the first time from May to July this year.