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13 charities based in Wales have received donations of £1,000 as part of the Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards.   For the fourth year running, the Benefact Group is giving away £1million to charities through its Movement for Good awards. Members of the public were invited to nominate causes close to their hearts, with another 250 awards of £1,000 available now for donation. Follow Your Dreams Limited, Paws Off Duty and Hope Rescue are some of the local charities…

Credit: Great British Racing   Amazing days out are set to continue this autumn with three exciting racedays taking place in Wales in the first two weeks of October. With incredible sporting action on track, activities for children, wide ranging food options, music concerts and the chance to dress up or down, there is something for everyone at the races. Tickets start from £19 and racing is one of the few sports where under 18s race free throughout the year. All three…

From Monday 10th October 2022, every household in the UK is invited to access a free 45-minute workshop dedicated to showing  households how to cut their annual energy costs, courtesy of Utilita Energy. The free-to-attend ‘Bill Buster’ sessions will be delivered by Utilita Energy – the UK’s only energy supplier created to help households use LESS energy. To enable every household to attend, the sessions can be accessed virtually via a live link, watched as a video, attended in person at…

HUMEN, a UK charity focussed on reducing the number of male suicides, is set to launch its next Rise Against Suicide campaign on Sunday 4th December 2022, calling on pubs in Wales to get involved and become a hub for progressive conversation. Over 5,000 men in the UK and Ireland took their own lives in the last year, accounting for 74% of all suicides. However, men are half as likely to seek out the help and support they need for their mental health,…

Over 2,660 RRT Care Kits and Comfort Snack Packs have been donated to families with hospitalised children, including Ronald McDonald House at Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital, as a show of love and compassion by the Rapid Relief Team UK (RRT). The donation from the charity has been made in partnership with the Ronald McDonald House Charities UK, who provide free ‘home away from home’ accommodation for families with children in hospital. The RRT, a charity comprised of volunteers from the Plymouth…

Cardiff will be illuminated on Friday 7 October in aid of Cancer Research UK The charity’s Shine Night Walk, which is returning to the city after the success of the first event last year, will take place this Friday. Participants can choose to raise money for the area of life-saving research closest to their hearts. This includes research into prostate cancer, breast cancer, bowel cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, brain tumours, children’s cancers and leukaemia. Or they can simply give…

Illustration, Gareth Griffiths Halloween Spectacular! Friday 28 October 2022, 7.30pm   Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra opens its new season with a programme of music suitable for the creepiest time of the year! We begin in a wild storm on Mussorgsky’s Night on a Bare Mountain and visit The Isle of the Dead with Rachmaninov’s darkly romantic and brooding score inspired by the famous painting of the same name by Arnold Böcklin. Two cinema classics with music by the great John Williams take us to the world of Harry Potter, as…

Cardiff Mind is a charity that FitHub30 feel extremely strongly about and as a gym they not only value people’s physical health but also their mental health. They specialise in helping busy Cardiff over 30’s who struggle to find the time to get to the gym as their own wellbeing goes further and further down the list compared to that of their families and others around them. Because of this, mental health is something that they talk about a lot…

  An e-learning expert has called for prison education to be prioritised as a method to cutting reoffending, in time for Adult Learners’ Week. Adult Learners’ Week will take place in Wales from 17th – 23rd October 2022,  and will also be celebrated in over 55 countries worldwide. The event aims to promote the value of lifelong learning and make learning opportunities more accessible. E-learning expert James Tweed says prisoners are often missed out when it comes to being provided…

  Air fryers, microwaves and slow cookers revealed as the most energy efficient ways of cooking as part of ‘Shop Smart, Cook Savvy’   Households reliant on oven cooking could save up to £604 per year by switching to a more energy efficient cooking method, according to new research by energy supplier Utilita. Joining together with frozen food specialist Iceland, the pair are embarking on a first of its kind partnership, that aims to help those struggling with the rising…