Providing habitat, food and protection – known as the three-legged stool approach – could help our ground-nesting birds thrive in Wales, according to leading research organisation the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). Sue Evans, Wales director for the GWCT made the comments at the NFU Sustainable Agriculture: Food, Farming and the Environment conference, near Brecon, last week (June 7th). “With the right levers and incentives farmers can restore numbers of our declining bird species,” she said. “By creating the…

Twelve charities based in Wales have received donations of £1,000 each as part of the Movement for Good awards. The awards, set up by specialist insurer Ecclesiastical, will see a total of £1million given to charities across the UK this summer. Members of the public were invited to nominate causes close to their hearts, with 500 awards of £1,000 available for donation.  Hospice of the Valleys, 2 Wish Upon a Star, Follow Your Dreams Limited and West Wales Poundies Dog…

  Rose McDonald recently responded to a call out for artists from the Arts for Health and Well-being Team, and the team felt that she sounded like the perfect person to paint a mural in the new Paediatric Phlebotomy area in Barry Hospital.   Rose is a recent Fine Art Graduate from Cardiff Metropolitan University, and now plans to undertake a Masters in Art Psychotherapy at the University of South Wales. Rose works with acrylic paints, exploring the movement and scale of landscapes, particularly…

THE 2018/19 International Concert Series comes to a dramatic close with the prestigious Philharmonia Orchestra on Tuesday 25 June. Get ready to embark on an awe-inspiring journey into the wonderful worlds of astrology, fantasy and mythology.   This captivating concert provides an experience like no other too with stunning digital imagery provided by the National Space Centre for The Planets, and spectacular film footage from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Plus, Cardiff Astronomical Society will be in attendance in…

  Everyman 19: The award-winning Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival  returns to Sophia Gardens, this summer, with six weeks of theatre for the whole family from the 27th June – 3rd August. The festival kicks off this year with the classic sitcom ‘Hi-De-Hi’, followed by the Shakespearean favourite, Much Ado About Nothing. As we head into the Summer holidays, the whole family can enjoy ‘The Little Mermaid Jr.’, brought to you by Go Productions, with the festival brought to a close with the rock opera ‘Jesus…

  Join us for sensory and messy play every Friday (Term Time) suitable for 6 months- 5 years.   There is no need to book just turn up. 10 – 11 am. at Conway Methodist Church, Conway Road, Canton, Cardiff.

The two-man show that is: Stones in His Pockets opened at New Theatre Cardiff, this hilariously funny show follows the story of two movie extras Jake and Charlie with bleak future’s as they discover and battle issues such as survival within Hollywood and it’s uncaring nature:  where all that matters is getting the film done. Set in a small rural town in Ireland, a key theme is misguided character Shaun. Jake and Charlie present issues of depression and guilt. The…

    Teenage Cancer Trust and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have come together to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the award-winning Teenage Cancer Trust Unit at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Sarah, Duchess of York, who opened the unit in 2009 returned on 11 June, to be part of the celebrations. The unit offers a dedicated service to treat young people aged 14-25 and is unlike any other unit in Wales. In its first 10 years,…

Mary Fulbrook Wins Wolfson History Prize 2019 for Revelatory Holocaust Study Reckonings “Human sympathy that marks the best historical writing” Diarmaid MacCulloch, Judge 2019, Wolfson History Prize London, 11th June 2019. Historian Mary Fulbrook has been awarded the 2019 Wolfson History Prize for her ground-breaking book Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Oxford University Press).   Historian and Award Judge Diarmaid MacCulloch announced the winner at the ceremony at Claridge’s, London, commenting: “Fulbrook journeys into some…

  Is someone a bewt if they lose their kecks? Would you say a cuppa was lush?   Travel specialist Stay in Devon is stoking the flames of British regional identities, by encouraging people from Wales to debate commonly used words from the country’s dialects with those from elsewhere in Britain.   The company hopes to bring out people’s hometown loyalties by encouraging them to openly agree or disagree with its own definitions.   It has created a Local Dialect…