Newport Family Cycling Festival will take place on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September at Tredegar House, getting even more families on their bikes this year. The festival is sponsored by Newport City Homes and is a joint venture organised by Sustrans Cymru, National Trust, RSPB Cymru, Welsh Cycling, HSBC Breeze and Newport Social Cycling. A grand opening event is planned with John Griffiths AM, the Blue Phoenix Marching Band and the Caldicot Male Voice Cycling Club Choir at 10.30am…

Oxjam Festival is taking place on October 7th running from Midday – Midnight on Womanby Street, Church Street and Dumballs Road with over 50 excellent acts playing in 5 different venues to raise money and awareness for Oxfam. As a festival celebrating all the wonderful things about the Cardiff music scene to raise money for an amazing cause, whether you’re a fan of heavy rock, hip hop, funk, grunge, techno, pop or punk, you’re bound to find something you love….

    Roath Rocks is so much more than just music. The music festival runs annually, promoting local artists from in and around Cardiff, with proceeds going to various different charities. The organisation also regularly puts on great gigs in various venues around the country’s capital. But the real story is the founder of Roath Rocks, Wayne Courtney. One of our columnists for the magazine, an award winning fundraiser, and an all round great guy, Wayne Courtney dedicates his time to helping…

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics is proud to announce its fifth consecutive year of The Pretty Powerful Campaign for Women & Girls, launching on International Women’s Day, March 8th 2017 with the introduction of a new Pretty Powerful Pot Rouge. Available in a NEW shade, “Pretty Powerful III,” the Pretty Powerful Pot Rouge is a universally flattering shade of pink with the full RRP (less VAT) of all sales made in the UK being donated to charity. Launched in March 2013, the…

  Let’s turn up the volume for Children’s Hospice Week 2017!     Join UK charity Together for Short Lives, families and services across the country for this year’s Children’s Hospice Week (22-28 May). The campaign will be turning up the volume on children’s palliative care to raise awareness about the needs of seriously ill children and to celebrate all the lifeline services that children and families rely on. There are 49,000 children in the UK living with a life-limiting…

Three outstanding ideas for better dementia care developed by frontline medical staff and patient carers are being celebrated at BioWales 2017. Cardiff and Vale University Hospital Board and Cardiff University developed a ‘Dementia Challenge’ as part of their drive for clinical innovation in Wales. Carers and staff came up with ideas that have since been turned into real-life services: a 1950s sitting room to make a ward ‘dementia friendly’; a bedside poster and publicity campaign to keep patients hydrated; a…

Official figures show it would take the average Brit between seven and 29 years to be able to put down a 10% deposit on a house in their city Londoners need to save for the longest amount of time to buy a home, while people in Edinburgh should be able to get on the property ladder more quickly Piggyback Property offers an alternative way to benefit from the property market, even for those who cannot afford to buy outright January…