Dinas Residents delighted at the finishing of phase one of their community garden revamp. After many months of hard work and with the help of local firms the community garden phase one at Fairoaks has been completed.

Age Connects are offering for free or (a small donation) the following items if you are an organisation that would use them. 

The Welsh Charity Awards are back. Your chance to celebrate the life changing impact of not only charities but volunteers and voluntary organisations of all shapes and sizes in Wales.

A calendar of free online training and well-being/information sessions

A free cuppa, chat and information for you

The group were recognised in the Beautiful Coast Award category, at a ceremony held at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama on Wednesday 19th April 2023.

Ways to improve your health and wellbeing

Raise some dough, get baking this May for CP

The Vale's local radio station, Bro Radio picked up Silver at the 'radio Oscars' in London on Tuesday. Judged by a panel of experts, and organised by The Radio Academy, the ARIAS are the biggest awards in the UK for radio and audio production. The event was hosted by Rylan Clarke and Fleur East and held at London's Theatre Royal Dury Lane, which was filled with the very best of the UK Radio industry.

Looking after Your health

If you are in the middle of closing, downsizing or moving offices and have between 4 to 6 desks that you no longer need Age Connects might be able to take them from your hands.  

If you live in the Vale of Glamorgan and feel you need support to return to employment, training or work experience, then contact Vale of Glamorgan Council CELT +Project.

The Rights Ambassadors is a universal/open access county-wide youth project managed by the Vale Youth Service and funded by the Children’s and Young People’s Partnership. The group is part of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ Community Ambassadors scheme The Rights Ambassadors project raises awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)and the Children & Young People’s National Participation Standards.

Students from UWC Atlantic College recently joined our volunteers at CF61 in Llantwit Major to help with our new raised vegetable beds. They cleared, prepared and levelled the ground before adding the two raised beds made out of old pallets which they filled before planting.

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In Spring of this year, with the help of a dedicated group of volunteers, the commitments made when requesting a grant will have been completed.  The group now looks forward to sustaining all these improvements and maintaining its strong volunteer base.

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Looking after Your health

Give Blood and help to save lives

The local RAYNET group for Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan counties are currently arranging a number of Community Awareness Presentation Talks on what they do and their local operations, these talks are available on Monday or Friday evenings.

A siren-like alert will be sent to smartphone users across the UK next month to test a new government public warning system. The test is expected to take place in the early evening of 23 April.