National Launch   Colin Jackson’s ‘Sanlam Go Dad Run 2015’ 5K for men and boys In aid of Prostate Cancer UK Father’s Day Bute Park, Cardiff, Sunday June 21st, 10.30am www.godadrun.co.uk Former World, European and Commonwealth 110m hurdles champion and Olympic silver medalist Colin Jackson was joined by many famous friends this evening at the Malmaison Hotel in Charterhouse Square, London when he launched his 3rd annual Sanlam Go Dad Run 5K’s for men and boys. This year the Cardiff…

Internationally renowned artists’ works of Kate Moss, Marilyn Monroe and Dita Von Teese to be auctioned    [LONDON: 14 May 2015] Today, an online auction launches which aims to raise £350,000 to support the charitable efforts of ‘Elephant Haven’ in establishing Europe’s first elephant sanctuary. It is estimated that over 600 elephants in Europe are in need of a safe haven. An increasing number of European countries have banned the use of elephants in circuses, but such elephants have nowhere…

Become a volunteer for Heart Research UK and help m ake your community live healthier, happier, longer lives. With June bringing National Volunteer Week, Heart R esearch UK are seeking out the help of local volunteers all over the country to help th em beat the country’s biggest killer, heart disease. Any time you can give takes them one step closer to winning the battle and with one person dying in the UK every seven minutes, it’ s a battle…

MARITIME CHARITY REMEMBERS WARTIME CONTRIBUTION WITH NEW FILM May 2015 Seventy years after the guns fell silent in Europe, a national maritime charity is marking VE Day (8 May) by launching a new video looking back at the work it undertook during the Second World War, and how its role has changed in the years since. During the six years of conflict the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society gave financial support to thousands of shipwrecked survivors; not just sailors but soldiers, airmen,…

CARDIFF SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS from Cancer Research UK’s Cardiff Centre put on their pink ‘war paint’ and are calling on women from across South Wales to join the fight against the disease by signing up for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. They want thousands of mums, daughters, grans, friends and colleagues to unite and form a ‘pink army’ at the Race for Life 5k, 10k and Pretty Muddy events at Bute Park on the weekend of 18 & 19…

STARS AT YOUR SERVICE SUMMER BALL Be treated like Royalty and be waited on for the night by Celebrities at a Black Tie Charity Summer Ball with a Twist! An evening of fun as our Stars are “At Your Service” in aid of a great Welsh cause! Support Welsh Hearts/Calonnau Cymru – The Heart Charity for Wales at The Hilton Hotel on Saturday 13th June 2015. Tickets £39.95 each and includes a Sparkling Reception, 3 course dinner with coffee and…

BT Team Revamp Hospice Website George Thomas Hospices’ (GTHC) revamped website, built by a team of specialist BT graduates, has been officially launched at the charity’s base in Cardiff today (08/04/15) The website provides an important gateway into the work of GTHC and for the first time supporters can now book events online, make a donation and find out more about the activities undertaken by the team at the hospice. The estimated value of BT’s support is around £15,000 and…

IS IT STALKING? That is the vital question being addressed in a new awareness film being released by the UK’s leading personal safety charity to launch National Stalking Awareness Week (20 -24 April 2015) With 1 in 6 women and 1 in 12 men being stalked at some point in their lives* the film, commissioned by charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust, helps to educate the public about what stalking is and to make clear it’s not romantic, trivial or funny, its…

800 students to be taught CPR in a mass one-day session by heart charity volunteer medics. On Thursday 23rd April Welsh Hearts charity team of medics will train up over 800 students at Lliswerry High School, Newport, Gwent in CPR and the safe use of defibrillators in just one day! Our doctors, nurses, paramedics and community first responders from all over Wales have been providing free CPR and defibrillator training as part of the “Saving Lives in Wales” campaign with…

Lend me a tenor – in fact, make it ten!’ Wales’s contribution to testosterone- fuelled operatic singing, the Ten Welsh Tenors are back by popular demand with an amazing concert featuring 10 of the finest tenors from all over Wales with a feast of sumptuous popular operatic delights. The 10 Tenors revealed are Rhys Meirion, Aled Hall, Aled Wyn Davies, Richard Allen, Trystan Llyr Griffiths, Ben Thapa, Shaun Dixon, Rhodri Prys Jones, Osian Bowen and Conal Bembridge-Sayers. ‘When all ten join…