A group of operators from the Craft Union Pub Company have raised £3,000 for two Down Syndrome charities by co-ordinating multiple climbs of Pen Y Fan – the largest peak in South Wales – over one day. In total, a group of six people successfully managed to scale and descend all 886m of Pen y Fan three times over one day. A second group of 12 people (and a dog) managed to navigate the challenging climb twice.   The money…

More vulnerable people in South Wales will be helped by Wales & West Utilities after South Wales Fire and Rescue Service received training on the vast range of support measures and services available. The gas emergency and pipeline service linked with partners including Care & Repair Cymru, South Wales Fire & Rescue Service and Warm Wales, to educate them on dealing with people in vulnerable situations, whilst also providing them with the latest information on the support measures Wales &…

Visitors to Cadw sites across South Wales can explore hundreds of years of Welsh history this Easter (19 – 22 April) as the sights, sounds and smells of historic Wales return to seventeen of Wales’s most magnificent heritage properties. From Easter trails and crafts at a Cistercian abbey to Civil War re-enactments at Wales’s biggest castle, here are seven ways families can uncover Welsh history across South and Mid Wales during the Easter weekend of 2019 ― Visit Wales’s official…

And every so often I find something. Washed up on the shore. Something lost. Something old. Something broken. Something in need of repair. And I’d bring it back here. I’d bring it home. With their first foray into new writing, Chippy Lane Productions present the world premiere of BLUE – the debut play of young Welsh writer Rhys Warrington. BLUE shines a light on the current state of innumerable families across Wales, one of the most pressing issues facing the…

A school girl from Cardiff has raised money for a charity that funds research into a life-limiting condition. Rowan Bailey-Lear, aged 10 from Morganstown has raised £130 for Harrison’s Fund which is based in Surrey. To raise money Rowan held a brunch at her house for her friends, selling tea, coffee, fruit juice, smoothies, and lots of food including banana bread, Mexican scrambled egg, bagels with cream cheese and salmon, apple muffins, croissants with homemade jam, strawberries, and melon and…

St. Edward’s Music & Arts Centre presents an Evening Concert on Tuesday, February 19. Come listen to the energetic and youthful sounds of The St. Peter’s Community Arts Academy Senior Youth Choir from Geneva, NY, USA. A retiring collection will be taken up to benefit Save the Children. St. Edward’s Music & Arts Centre presents an Evening Concert on Tuesday, February 19. Come listen to the energetic and youthful sounds of The St. Peter’s Community Arts Academy Senior Youth Choir…

·         Lidl is donating Christmas dinners to 131 local charities and community causes tackling loneliness and isolation across the country ·         The supermarket will donate 282 turkeys, 4,716 pigs in blankets and 65kg of Brussels sprouts, providing up to 3,000 Christmas dinners ·         The festive food items will enable the charities to bring people together and host a Christmas dinner over the festive period ·         The products will supplement the food surplus that the supermarket already donates from its stores…

Flowing mulled vine, delicious bratwurst sausages and Nutella crêpes, December is here and Cardiff’s Winter Wonderland is back for 2018! What better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to visit Winter Wonderland? You have until 6 January 2019 to head down to Winter Wonderland for ice skating, fun fair attractions, food, drink and lots of Christmas cheer! With some exciting new developments, Winter Wonderland is bigger and better than ever before, with lots of fun for all the…

School children across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan have been holding sessions for older people in the local community to raise awareness of and reduce the risk of falling. Staying Steady Schools was launched by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board with the help of Cardiff University students who hosted a number of sessions in local primary schools where children teach older people about the risk of falls and how to reduce them. Following a successful pilot earlier this…

Artist Zena Blackwell’s first solo show at Roath’s Cardiff M.A.D.E is a high contrast, intensely critical look at constructions of childhood and the domestic. I’m having a slothful Saturday. Late start, no bread for toast. No milk for coffee. I make my way, thankfully, to cardiff MADE’s beautiful Lochaber Street café. There’s a £5 minimum for card payments, so with little persuasion I order myself a latte and two slices of cake. The barista compliments my nails. I blushingly tell…