Community groups in Wales are being invited to apply for a slice of £82,000 funding by the UK’s fourth largest building society. Skipton Building Society’s Grassroots Giving community funding scheme has 164 pots of £500 to give away in 2017 and is urging organisations in Wales to put their name forward before the deadline on 31 July. The award-winning Grassroots Giving is now well into its 2017 campaign in a bid to give a financial boost to dozens of groups…

The British Heart Foundation praises dedicated efforts of community fundraising in south and east Wales and urges people to continue their support. New figures released today by the British Heart Foundation Cymru (BHF Cymru) show residents in south and east Wales raised an incredible £265,288 for the charity’s life saving research last year by fundraising in their community. People across south and east Wales have shown they’re all heart, undertaking countless fundraising activities – from the weird to the wonderful…

A new vintage shop has opened in Cardiff City Centre. Ami’s sells women’s vintage clothes, jewellery and accessories, along with a few more modern ‘preloved’ items. The small shop is based in the Castle Emporium on Womanby Street, opposite Clwb Ifor Bach and is run by Ami Christopher. Ami says “It started with my own thrifting obsession – not wanting to wear the same as everyone else, whilst maintaining a modern sense of style. I wanted to create a space…

  THE COUNTDOWN is on to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in Cardiff. With just two weeks to go until the big day, organisers are rallying local women to join the fight against cancer as fewer women than expected have registered for the life-saving fundraiser. Organisers are calling on mums, daughters, sisters and friends to show their support and take part in the 5k and10k events at Blackweir Fields, Bute Park on Sunday 16 July. Entry closes on13 July…

 Football fever hit the area as a festival of football hit Cardiff as teams from across Wales, from Penarth, Cardiff, Barry and far afield such as places like Swansea, Ceredigion, Gwent and Pembrokeshire ascended on Cardiff Arms Park the home of Cardiff Blues. The non competitive festival aimed at U6 to U11 age groups saw over 180 teams and  1952 children taking part in the prestigious football festival played under the FAW mini football rules. As the children where paraded on the pitch before a ball was kicked…

One of the most extraordinary men of the Victorian age, John Patrick Crichton Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, was a fabulously rich and visionary creator of great architecture. Heir to the Scottish estate that shares his name, as well as a massive Welsh fortune left by his tycoon father who helped to develop Cardiff into a major city, he set about making his dreams come true in both Scotland and Wales. Bute: The Scot Who Spent a Welsh Fortune…

  Cardiff, 4th July 2017 – Martyn Phillips, CEO of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has been named board Chairman of GlobalWelsh, an initiative that is engaging and building a community based on the estimated 3 million Welsh diaspora and connecting them back to their homeland. The WRU has also become a Founding Partner of GlobalWelsh. Diaspora engagement can have a profound impact across a broad spectrum of activity across private, public and third sectors.  Moreover, by increasing Wales’ engagement…

O’NEILL’S IS HOSTING A COMPETITION TO FIND THE NEXT BIG THING IN MUSIC – AND YOU’RE INVITED! If you love discovering new acts, hidden talent and listening to live music, O’Neill’s Sound of Summer is your chance to do just that. This is the ultimate nationwide battle of the bands, coming to a venue near you. One band will win an incredible prize package including £6k, a slot in the Jaegerhaus at a UK leading festival, as well as enough…

BBC Children in Need has allocated over £29,600 in new funding to a group working with disadvantaged children and young people across Cardiff. This is the third time that BBC Children in Need has awarded new funding to projects across Wales this year, with further funding to be allocated throughout 2017. This latest boost of funding, from the charity’s Small Grants programme, brings the total invested in Cardiff to more than £1.4m. Friends of Pentre Gardens has been allocated funding…

TREORCHY MALE CHOIR celebrate 70 Glorious Years of song in style with a gala concert featuring Welsh star Shân Cothi at St David’s Hall on Sunday 9 July. But hurry as only limited seats are now remaining! Starting at 5pm, the world-famous choir are conducted by their Music Director Jeffrey Howard, and will also be joined by the massed voices of Côr Meibion Pontarddulai, Pendyrus and Morriston Orpheus male choirs. Since the early 1980s, Treorchy Male Choir have performed across…