@MyPossibleSelf | www.mypossibleself.com Emotional health and wellbeing service provider My Possible Self last year launched the UK’s first mobile self-help appwhich uses content that is clinically proven to reduce stress, feelings of anxiety and low mood. The My Possible Self app is a personalised self-help tool that helps you meet the stresses and strains in your life head on. The app empowers you to take charge of your thoughts and feelings to create a healthy, happy you. It is the…

Volunteers from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have been shortlisted in two categories in the Helpforce Champions Awards 2019, providing national recognition of their fantastic contribution to volunteering in the NHS. The awards, which take place in central London on Friday 25 October, will celebrate the exciting ways in which volunteers across the country are giving their time to benefit patients, staff, and communities. Health Board volunteers have been shortlisted in two categories: Young Volunteer of the Year –…

Do you remember this sculpture? Are you in these photos? In 1972 Garth Evans created a large-scale sculpture that was placed in The Hayes, Cardiff city centre, for six months as part of an important, nationwide sculpture project. Following a successful crowd funding campaign supported by Art Happens with Art Fund, the sculpture has been restored and is coming home to its original location.   In collaboration with Chapter Arts Centre a short documentary film is being made about the…

In a new four part series, naturalist Iolo Williams looks at the wild side of town as he travels around Wales to understand why we’re seeing more wildlife moving in to our towns today and how they’ve successfully adapted to an urban environment. For birds and animals, towns are full of opportunities – great places to feed, find a mate, raise their young and keep safe and warm. From Cardiff to Conwy, Iolo sets out to meet those who have…

  Congratulations to Macmillan’s Sarah Davies, based at the University Hospital of Wales who is the very first Macmillan professional in Wales to be presented with the Macmillan Volunteering Quality Standard (MVQS).   Sarah, who is an Information and Support Facilitator, received her award at a presentation attended by staff and volunteers at the Macmillan Information Support Service in the University Hospital of Wales.   The MVQS recognises the development and improvement that Sarah has made to the volunteer experience…

Alzheimer’s Research UK is looking for people living across Cardiff to help increase the number of orange collection tins placed throughout the area. They need passionate volunteers to help turn Cardiff orange by placing and maintaining collection tins in local shops and businesses such as newsagents, pubs, butchers, post offices, farm shops, chemists. And the more collection tins, the more money raised for vital dementia research.   This is a flexible and simple volunteering opportunity that can work around the…

   The legendary George Benson  proudly announces eight UK shows in June/July 2020. This includes one night at London’s most iconic venue, the Royal Albert Hall on July 2nd , 2020.   Tickets go on sale:  9.00am Friday September 27th.   The live shows will feature George Benson’s masterful guitar playing, and Benson and his band will perform his Greatest Hits from his impressive back catalogue – which includes such classics as Give Me The Night, Lady Love Me (One More…

  One in five (19%) people caring for stroke survivors have not accessed any form of help after their lives were turned upside down overnight, according to new figures published today by the Stroke Association.    The charity has also found that 40% of stroke carers who had been caring for more than three years report feeling exhausted and around 1 in 3 stressed or anxious .  Despite this, more than a third of people caring for stroke survivors (35%)…

  Numerous recent sightings of a moth that became extinct in the UK in the 1960s, suggest that it has recolonised and is now breeding across southern Britain.   The Clifden Nonpareil, whose name means ‘beyond compare’, is one of the largest and most spectacular moths native to our shores.   With a wingspan that can reach almost 12cm and a bright blue stripe across its black hindwings (which gives rise to an alternative name of the Blue Underwing), this…

Exclusively produced and shot in Cardiff, ‘Duty’s Veil’ is the story of Rebecca, a determined detective on the hunt for a vicious psychopathic killer in her new UK hometown. The deeper she delves into the case, the more at risk she is of unearthing the secrets of her own dark past; the reason she left America, her true identity and her past affiliation with a notorious crime sisterhood. ‘Duty’s Veil’ is screening at Earl’s Court Film Festival in London at…