A selfless volunteer from Cardiff has been recognised by The King and Queen Consort as part of the official Coronation celebrations in conjunction with the Royal Voluntary Service. For more than 14 years, Mo Alamgir, has been volunteering for the Muslim Council of Wales and Dar Ul Isra Mosque.  Mo is one of the 29 volunteers from Wales and 500 nationally to have been recognised for their contribution and crowned a Coronation Champion. This follows a call out to the…

Aldi has launched an Adult’s Breakfast Club to help millions of parents who are skipping breakfast to ensure their children have enough food to eat. It is often said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, providing essential nutrients and energy for the day ahead. However, the heart-breaking reality is that almost half (44%) of parents from lower income families are skipping meals to ensure their children have enough food to eat, with breakfast being the most…

Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Cabinet has approved plans to amend grass cutting regimes, with the aim of promoting biodiversity. Cabinet members approved adopting the approach used during 2021/22 as the future standard for grass cutting in the county borough.  This saw highway verges and bypass routes where mowing is kept to a minimum, in accordance with Traffic Wales guidance. They also gave a commitment to support the UK wide ‘No Mow May’ campaign.  This means formal grass cutting does not…

FoodCycle, the charity that aims to make food poverty, loneliness and food waste a thing of the past for every community, is in urgent need of volunteers as it opens its second Project in Cardiff. This marks FoodCycle’s forth Project opening in Wales in 18 months, reflecting the need for vital services to help those gripped by the cost-of-living crisis.  The new site opened on 27th March at Dusty Forge,  ACE – Action in Caerau & Ely on Cowbridge Road, the…

Schools across the UK have been on the edge of their seats waiting for the winners of the national Coronation Benches competition to be announced.  Historic Royal Palaces can reveal that fifteen winners have been selected from over 1,500 fantastic entries, to be developed with global public art producers Wild in Art and installed at the Tower of London during the Coronation celebrations. Children and young people from across the country have designed their own illustrated Coronation benches, exploring their…

Recycle Now and Love Food Hate Waste,  have come up with some egg-cellent tips this Easter to help ensure you waste as little as possible.   If you’re planning on indulging in your favourite treats, try to waste as little as possible by recycling as much as you can and avoiding food waste. Top tips include: Easter egg foil: The foil wrapped around most easter eggs CAN be recycled – Simply scrunch the foil into a loose ball along with any…

Residents in Wales can nominate a good cause to receive £1,000 as part of Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards. Now in its fifth year, the Movement for Good Awards will once again see more than £1 million gifted to charities up and down the UK and Ireland. Since the awards began, people in Wales have submitted over 69,800 nominations and 71 Wales based charities have benefited from valuable donations. While the pandemic and the current economic climate has had an…

School children across the UK will benefit from a new grant programme launching this summer which will provide £5 million in grants to help give them a healthier, more active, stronger start in life. In the first year 5,300 schools will be able to apply for support funding to get pupils the nutritious food they need throughout the school day and resources to keep them physically active with new sports and play equipment or outdoor activities. The scheme, supported by…

  A forthcoming scifi film is turning South Wales into a post-apocalyptic world. And producers are now offering fans the chance to get involved. Annalium 8 is set in a world where all animal life has been wiped out. But a scientist in full bio-hazard kit and with a life-support machine in tow, discovers a young girl in a forest, apparently fit and well. Created by Robert Lancey, a writer born and raised in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, the short film was…

The award-winning Bluestone Brewing Company was founded during 2013. Simon, Kerry and Amy (founders) have grown the business forward, to the thriving micro brewery it is today, with an increased workforce to produce alcoholic beverages to a high standard and also to accommodate increased order quantities. Tyriet is a working family farm and the team ensure that all of the bi-products from the brewing operations are utilised on the farm, including going to animal feeds, which contribute to the eco-friendly…