New research has revealed just how sedentary Cardiffians are, with more than half (57 percent) admitting they spend MOST of their spare time on the sofa and do next to no exercise. In fact, 43 percent of exhausted Cardiff adults said they love spending their weekends ‘just chilling’ after a hectic week and 56 percent admit they are a couch potato. And while six in 10 say they feel restless if they spend the whole day in the house, the average Cardiffian will spend…

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival Director Berwyn Rowlands has been selected in the Top 10 at the British LGBT Awards in the category “Outstanding Contribution to LGBT Life.”  The British LGBT Awards have been running since 2015 and aim to highlight and celebrate role models and organisations who work to better the lives of LGBT+ people in the UK. The Outstanding Contribution to LGBT Life award celebrates individuals whose work has made a significant impact to the LGBT+ community, and…

Fire and Rescue Service staff across Wales have shown exceptional professionalism and dedication to assist their communities following two successive storms in just over a week, resources have been extremely stretched with staff being recalled to duty for hours on end to assist their colleagues. These storms have seen an exceptional increase in the number of emergency calls to our fire controls across Wales, with control staff providing critical life saving advice, support and resilience during this busy time. The…

  This week over twenty-two thousand Welsh children will be singing, rhyming and smiling as part of The Big Welsh Rhyme Time, BookTrust’s (the UK’s largest reading charity) Wales-wide celebration of sharing rhymes and songs, together in the early years with a little help from Welsh Rugby icon James Hook. Each year The Big Welsh Rhyme Time encourages fun and enjoyable rhyme sharing activity for children in Wales aged 0-5, in Welsh and English, because rhymes and songs help children develop speaking, listening, communication…

  Taking place over the late May bank holiday weekend, Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th May, the most talented athletes in action sports will head to Cardiff’s Principality Stadium to compete in the 2020 Nitro World Games. Hyped as the must-see action sports event of the year, Nitro World Games brings the very best in FMX, BMX, Skate, and Scooter together under one roof for a mind-blowing sporting competition. Nitro World Games Wales kicks off Saturday May 23rd at 1:00PM with Semifinals for all…

  Learn to Play Day – a free national event to encourage everyone in the UK to start making music – is coming to Wales this March.   Supported by Jools Holland OBE, and run by charity Music for All, the 2020 Learn to Play Day will take place on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th March, and will see music shops, teachers, venues and schools throughout the county partner with leading musical instrument brands to offer thousands of FREE music lessons.   So far, participating venues include:   Pencerdd Music in Penarth PMT Cardiff in Cardiff   Further venues are…

    Film4 boards the Iris Prize Best British Short as sponsor, in three-year agreement to acquire rights to screen the 15 shortlisted films at Film4 on All 4  “…with a strong track record for supporting British film making, this is the perfect partner for Iris. We are so excited!”  Organisers of Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival have today (28 January 2020) announced details of a new three-year sponsorship agreement with British producer/broadcaster Film4. The agreement will see Film4 acquire…

  The British Red Cross is kicking off its 150th year with a campaign called #ItStartsWithHer to show how women in the UK can change the lives of women in one of the most disaster-prone places on the planet, simply by donating unwanted clothes. Almost half of women in the UK have admitted to owning too many clothes according to a recent survey for the charity. The research revealed that most, woman claim to wear less than half of their wardrobe,…

Global Acts of Unity has launched an inaugural poetry competition and is asking young people (aged 11-18) to enter by expressing what ‘unity’ means to them for a chance to win £100 vouchers and £500 worth of supplies for their school. The contest aims to encourage children to use the power of poetry as a form of expression to capture how they feel about ‘unity’ in their school and their wider community. The goal is to encourage students to explore its meaning, strengthen their barriers…

In October 2019, Coleg Gwent’s Learn Welsh Gwent department was routinely inspected by Estyn, the inspectors of quality and standards in education and training in Wales, and are now celebrating the findings of the report published last week by the independent body.   The main findings were that “Wellbeing and attitudes to learning” and “Care, support and guidance” are ‘Excellent’. Standards, Care, support and guidance and Leadership and management were judged to be ‘Good’.   The Inspection team noted that…