His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales will mark the official opening of the Ysbyty Calon y Ddraig – the Dragon’s Heart Hospital, the temporary hospital based at the Principality Stadium on Monday 20 April 2020. Ysbyty Calon Y Ddraig is the largest temporary hospital in Wales and the second largest in the UK. It has been funded by Welsh Government to support the communities of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan and potentially across other Health Boards in Wales….
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru is looking to recruit people in the Cardiff Council area who are not currently in employment and looking for a career in childcare to become paid trainee nursery assistants. NDNA’s Childcare Works programme, fully funded by the Welsh Government, will be delivered across ten local authority areas in Wales. Cardiff is the second project area to launch recruitment of candidates, following a successful launch in Conwy in May. Those who are accepted onto the…
Nearly 800 people voted in Cardiff Cycle City’s first ever Cardiff Cycling Awards. The award ceremony took place last night in a packed Ride My Bike Cafe. The winners of the five categories were: Award 1. Biggest Contribution to improving Cycling in Cardiff NextBike Award 2. Cardiff School doing most to encourage cycling to school Radnor Primary Award 3. Worst street/path for potholes in Cardiff Newport Road Award 4. Worst junction for cyclists in Cardiff Newport Road generally! Award 5….
Three major Cardiff employers have received Credit Unions of Wales Awards for helping to improve the financial health of their workforce. Cardiff Council, Cardiff Bus and the Cardiff-based offices of Legal & General were honoured for supporting the welfare of their staff by encouraging them to access a range of affordable financial services from their local credit union. All three companies received their awards from BBC broadcaster Jennifer Jones at a ceremony in The Pierhead, Cardiff Bay on International Credit…
Cardiff’s Willows High School has received more than 30 laptops from Circle IT, which has introduced a scheme to regenerate a range of IT consumables and donate them to local schools across South Wales. Cardiff Gate-headquartered, Circle IT, made the donation as part of its commitment to benefiting those in the local community and it’s now hoped that many of Willows 600-plus pupils will benefit from the opportunities the technology offers. The laptops will replace the aging IT desktop equipment…
Statement from Marlborough Children’s Action Group For the last four years Cardiff Council have failed the children of Penylan, Roath and Plasnewydd by not providing sufficient places at the local catchment secondary school for all the children that live in the area. This has caused uncertainty for children about where they will go to secondary school and led to significantly increased levels of stress and anxiety; a growing number of parents have taken the difficult decision to relocate. Despite pressure…
After petitioning the council for months, #catsmatter finally achieved closure methods for owners of missing cats When a cat is sadly hit and killed by a car, many are left roadside. The role of the local council’s waste department is to collect the ‘roadkill’ and dispose of it. These cats are family members to many. Simply notifying the owners of their pet’s sad fate gives them answers and closure. Otherwise, they’re searching the streets for months unsure of…
Over a thousand people voted for Option B in the consultation, to introduce a feeder school system to tackle the over-subscription problems that have caused controversy in Cardiff in recent years. Over 1,200 people took part in this consultation as opposed to just 50 last year. Despite the overwhelming majority of people voting for option B, in a report (1) released on Saturday 10th March, Nick Batchelar (the Director of Education and Lifelong Learning at Cardiff Council), advised that…
CAMPAIGNERS are calling on Cardiff Council to protect the city’s music scene, in response to recent events and developments on Womanby Street. Backed by Cardiff’s grassroots music venues, the Save Womanby Street campaign is lobbying the council to recognise the street as an area of cultural significance for music and performance arts. Home to live music venues Clwb Ifor Bach, The Full Moon, Fuel Rock Club and Bootlegger, Womanby Street has been described as “the epicentre of Cardiff for grassroots…
At the campaign for an elected Mayor for Cardiff we take very seriously the need to balance off the need for democracy with the use of public money. Our campaign is about making sure the people of Cardiff have a democratic voice while at the same time ensuring public resources are not wasted. The recent report by Cardiff Council that holding a referendum and then electing a mayor would cost the City over a million pounds. We dispute this figure…
