A service to provide help and support to vulnerable people in their homes has been praised for how it helps the community.Cardiff’s Community Alarm has been praised for their work and service they provide to their users.Following an audit undertaken by Insight Auditors on behalf of the Telecare Telecom Service Authority (TSA) the report concluded ...
Leisure Centres across the city are gearing up for the most fun-filled summer holidays to date! Children and families can expect to be kept entertained for the six week break with an exciting and new activity programme. There are hundreds of different activities taking place at 12 venues across Cardiff with each facility running their ...
A Cardiff fishing club has cast out a line to the local community by providing a free organised fishing trip. Fairwater and Pentrebane Community Angling Club has been working in partnership with Cardiff Council’s Leisure Services, Ely Garden Villagers and drug and alcohol charity Kaleidoscope. The club was established two years ago by Gary Smith, ...
On Wednesday 6th July, three Cardiff Primary Schools will return to Cardiff Bay to see the young salmon they have nurtured from eggs safely returned to the River Taff. Gladstone, Lakeside and Thornhill Primary Schools have participated in the Salmon Coming Home Project; as part of the Cardiff Harbour Authority’s environmental education programme run by ...
Cardiff Environment, Cardiff Schools, Community
A free community fun day is planned for this Saturday (July 9) at Lydstep Park between 11am and 3pm. The event marks the end of the first annual Gabalfa and Mynachdy festival, a series of fun and informative events which are taking place throughout the week (Monday 4 July to Friday 8 July) to showcase ...
Cardiff Council’s Park Services have announced new allotment plots are now available at Ely Farm, Cardiff. A total of 32 additional plots have been marked out at the site and prospective tenants on the waiting list are currently being contacted. Eight plots have already been allocated to new tenants keen to grown their own fruit ...
Cardiff Council Bereavement Services have invited the citizens of Cardiff to a special annual Babies Remembrance Service on 26th June 2011 at 11:30am in the Wenallt Chapel at Thornhill Crematorium. The memorial service, supported by the Stillbirth and Neonatal Deaths Society (Sands) allows those who have lost a baby as well as their families and ...
Gareth Thomas has been named as the number one personality in TimeOut’s Pride Power List of 2011. Former captain of the Wales rugby union team, and Cardiff Blues favourite Thomas came out two years ago in the Daily Mail revealing: ‘What I choose to do when I close the door at home has nothing to ...
The NSPCC’s renowned HACK (Hike Against Cruelty to Kids) is taking place for the first time in St David’s and the charity is looking for local people in Cardiff who want a real physical challenge to sign up to take part. The St David’s Peninsula HACK takes place on Saturday 17 September 2011. It is ...
Cardiff council has taken a step towards preventing the site of the Llanishen Reservoir becoming a new housing estate today, and categorised the long term plan as “environmental vandalism”. Cardiff Council’s Executive, have decided that the Nant Fawr Corridor is to be declared as a Local nature Reserve (LNR). This will protect the land and ...
Cardiff Council’s Park Services has worked closely with Whitchurch Women’s Institute (WI) to refurbish two special war memorials. The...
Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating...
A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of...
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work...
A loan shark who preyed on vulnerable people is due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th November at Cardiff...
The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the...
Since the General Election councils in England and Wales have lost over 101,000 jobs and the Vale of Glamorgan...
A group of Barclays staff based in Cardiff have successfully completed the UK Three Peaks challenge in aid of...
The Public and Commercial Services union which represents civil and public servants has called on the government to invest...
On the 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste...
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