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Welsh Hearts are celebrating their 5th birthday this year and are tremendously grateful to you for your patronage. They will be updating you in the coming months on all the fun ideas we’ve been working on. Welsh Hearts have placed an incredible 916 defibrillators to date and the number keeps growing. With over 8,000 sudden cardiac arrests in Wales each year,  free CPR trainings offer a life-saving skills that can prove vital in an emergency. Book or request a session…

With the cold and wet weather continuing into the new year, thoughts inevitably turn to your home and ensuring all rooms are warm, comfortable and used to their full potential. However if you’re not making the most of your conservatory due to high temperatures during the summer and a colder area in winter then it may be time to consider replacing the old roof with a new energy efficient and weatherproof alternative. A replacement roof will give your glazed extension…

Yousuf Bakshi, 16, went from coding struggles to designing Snapchat filters used by Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran, as well as 78.3 million others. Originally from Cardiff, Yousuf Bakshi is just 16-years-old, and an A level student studying Physics, Maths, Computer Science and the Welsh Baccalaureate at Fitzalan High School Sixth Form. Yet he’s anything but ordinary. Since January 2017, he has also set up and been running his own small business, working with customers to create visual advertising on the…

  It is one of the greatest family musicals of all time and now a lavish new production of The Sound of Music is set for a return to Cardiff’s New Theatre. Playing the iconic role of Maria, a role that has previously won her rave reviews is The Voice finalist Lucy O’Byrne. Lucy became a household name when she was the runner up of BBC One’s The Voice in 2015. With Will.i.am as her mentor Lucy became the first…

  Cardiff Sinfonietta is thrilled to be joined by the internationally renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, and trombonist Matthew Gee for a performance of Christian Lindberg’s Liverpool Lullabies. Cardiff Sinfonietta is quickly gaining a reputation for bringing outstanding soloists to perform in Cardiff, and this concert is certainly no exception. Lindberg dedicated Liverpool Lullabies to Dame Evelyn Glennie, an artist who is an avid commissioner of new music, and has worked with many of the world’s leading composers. Her performance…

Dodging cultural and literal bullets, Israeli incursions and religion, Mark Thomas and his team set out to run a comedy club for two nights in the Palestinian city of Jenin. Only to find it’s not so simple to celebrate freedom of speech in a place with so little freedom. Jenin refugee camp, home to Jenin Freedom Theatre and to people with a wealth of stories to tell. Mark tells this story alongside two of its actors and aspiring comics, Faisal…

Ed returns to the road this year after a total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run with his biggest ever tour to date and his brand new show called Spoiler Alert. He says; “I originally intended to call the show “I’ll Millennial You in a Minute”, but my promoter considered the title “off-puttingly baffling”. That’s my own chainsaw in the photo, by the way”. In the show, Ed explores the thin line between righteous complaining and brat-like whining and asks, ‘are we…

  Photo: CRC logo Groups of offenders are paying back for the crimes they have committed have contributed almost 175,000 hours of service to their local communities in South Wales this year. People completing Community Payback activity through the Wales Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) as part of their sentencing have collectively done 363,418 hours of service to their local area in 2017. Locally in South Wales, that figure stands at 174,534. Wales CRC works with local organisations to complete often…

Obstetric Bleeding Strategy for Wales (OBS) Cymru recently won the Efficiency through Technology Programme – High Impact Award at the MediWales awards. Founded in 1992, MediWales is the life science network and representative body for Wales. MediWales provides advice, support and business opportunities for members, whilst promoting collaboration within the life science and health technology community in Wales. OBS Cymru is an all-Wales collaborative quality improvement project to reduce harm from postpartum haemorrhage. The project is was originally funded by…

Leading organisations from across the Welsh food industry have made public pledges to radically change the way that they produce, manufacture, supply and serve their meals to include more vegetables, with the aim to make it quicker and easier for hundreds of thousands of adults and children to consume a healthier diet. Research shows that eating too little veg contributes to 20,000 premature deaths in the UK every year and that we should all be eating at least an extra…