Whitchurch High School’s very own Elinor Crawley, has appeared in many screen productions such as Vikings and The White Queen since her debut in the Welsh made film Submarine. Carl Marsh got to talk about her latest movie Burning Men. Your latest film has a POV (point of view) camera angle to it, and it took me a little while to get used to it, but once I did, I really did get to experience a film like no other…

Initiative supported by industry figures Jane Featherstone, Phoebe Fox, Emma Freud, Maike Mia Höhne, Kate Kinninmont, Stacy Martin, Archie Panjabi, Marianne Slot and more (Thursday 28th February, London, Paris, Berlin) Bumble today announces that The Female Film Force, a Bumble initiative offering unique grants to aspiring women filmmakers is now open in France, Germany and the UK. Following the production of five female led films supported by The Female Film Force in the UK last year, and overwhelming demand from…

With Mother’s Day approaching, one of Barnardo’s adoptive mums has shared her inspiring story in the hopes of encouraging other families to welcome a vulnerable child into their lives. Louisa, 47, from Birmingham, works in a school and had seen how children in care flourish when they find their forever families. When her sons left home and she decided to extend her family, she contacted Barnardo’s, which has been finding families for vulnerable children for more than 100 years, and…

  The serious business of comedy will be one of many contemporary topics under discussion at this year’s Creative Cities Convention, hosted by top journalist and Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark. After its highly successful inaugural event held in Leeds last year the convention’s second outing, on Monday April 1 and Tuesday April 2 at the wonderful Royal College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, is shaping up to be a full house of industry leaders and a packed programme of…

Two staff members at Transport for Wales are set to star in a new BBC Wales series exploring the hidden world of night shift workers. Lynne Bartlett and Andrew French, both from Cardiff, are members of Transport for Wales’ Train Presentation team and spend hours every night preparing the carriages for the 12,000 commuters who use the network every day. The grime fighting duo, who between them have spent more than 30 years working the night shift, will now star…

Celebrated Welsh authors and illustrators will bring their stories and characters to life as they inspire and entertain young and avid readers at this year’s springtime Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival. Running over two weeks in March and April (Saturday 30th March – Sunday 7th April) the Welsh and English Festival will host numerous storytelling sessions, craft workshops, creative writing workshops and games across Cardiff’s iconic venues including Cardiff Castle, City Hall and Cardiff Central Library. There will also be free…

  Charities and community groups across Wales are being invited to receive free surplus food from Tesco this Easter. Across the UK the supermarket distributes a million meals a month to good causes as part of its Community Food Connection scheme, run in conjunction with food charity FareShare and powered by FoodCloud technology. Community Food Connection enables some 7,000 charities and community groups to pick up free food from Tesco each week, but some of those groups take a break…

Community groups in Wales have just two weeks left to apply for a regional grant of up to £10,000 to help local people look after their hearts. National charity Heart Research UK is urging groups to submit applications for the Heart Research UK and Subway® Healthy Heart Grant before 14 March. The Heart Research UK and Subway® Healthy Heart Grant is available for new and innovative projects that promote healthy hearts and reduce the risk of heart disease in the…

Patients with low vision are benefitting from an initiative developed by Visualise Training and Consultancy and funded by Thomas Pocklington Trust. Seeing Beyond the Eyes has released its impact report which highlights a huge increase in the number of optical professionals who will now refer patients with low vision to vital support services – up from only 9% to an impressive 96%. The project benefits patients by connecting the optical and sight loss sectors and has trained over 2,200 delegates…

  The RHS Flower Show Cardiff supported by wealth manager Brewin Dolphin will return to the Welsh capital with a celebration of spring from 12 – 14 April. The show will champion health and wellbeing and celebrate Visit Wales’ Year of Discovery theme for 2019 as it explores some of the finest in Welsh horticulture. Teaming up with Perennial, presenter of the Sodshow Gardening Podcast, Peter Donegan will create a small private garden offering a relaxing space to enjoy and…