A team from Selwood have raised more than £4,500 for a vital children’s charity after taking on the fastest zip line in the world and climbing to the summit of Mount Snowdon. Ten employees from the leading pump and plant company took on a two-day sponsored challenge in Wales in aid of the Honeypot Children’s Charity, which helps hundreds of young carers and vulnerable children between the ages of five and 12. On day one of the challenge, the team…

Free Family Carnival to help local communities place at least 100 Defibrillators in Cardiff     Welsh Hearts will be opening its doors to all families this Bank Holiday Monday for a free family event. Our May Day Carnival promises to be a ton of fun for the whole family, with special appearances from loved characters such as the Teenage Mutant Turtles, Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy, Anna and Elsa from Frozen, Jake and Izzy, and a few more surprise characters!…

This estate agent with a difference is offering the chance to win a luxury villa – and help out charities in the process   Imagine waking up and doing a few laps in a stylish infinity pool, drinking freshly squeezed juice from your own orange trees and enjoying panoramic views to the Mediterranean. With 300 sunshine days a year, here is a unique opportunity to own a dream luxury holiday retreat for just £10. Win Houses is practically giving away…

BBC Children in Need has announced that it has awarded this to a project aimed at working with disadvantaged children   The new funding will enable projects to provide services to young people in the area and the news means that the charity now has more than £1.2m invested in Cardiff. This is the first funding round of the year, with additional funding to be allocated to projects across the UK throughout 2018.  Pentrebane Zone will use a grant of…

Cardiff and Vale Health Charity have organised a bed push, a 5k and a 10k run to celebrate the nhs   To celebrate the NHS at 70, Cardiff & Vale Health Charity have organised a bed push, a 5k and 10k run on 20 May 2018 at Cardiff Bay, with money raised at this event going back directly into healthcare and supporting those with brain and spinal injuries.   Behind the scenes, helping to organise this event is Paul Harrison,…

Homelessness charity Llamau has been presented with a cheque from housebuilder Bellway Wales, after staff took part in the organisation’s annual Sleep Out event. The Bellway team raised more than £3,800 after taking part in the charity event, which is held at Cardiff City Stadium each autumn. Nine Bellway Wales employees spent the night in the stadium, constructing a temporary shelter from cardboard boxes, and raised the money through sponsorship from friends, family and colleagues. The event is not designed…

With Autism Awareness Week starting next week (26 March – 2 April), hundreds of people will soon be walking for autism for a charity which has services in Wales. Over 450 people have signed up to Autism Initiatives’ project to walk 10,000 steps a day for eight days, pledging to raise over £10,000 together for autism. Chief Executive Andrew Grainger, who is also one of the walkers, said, “We’re so grateful people are walking for autism. This is our first…

Stroke Association in Wales would like to thank the volunteers and fundraisers who took part in the charity run at Bute Park and joined in the fight to beat strokes. Alan Drury, Regional Fundraiser Wales for the Stroke Association in Wales, said: “We would like to thank the sea of purple fundraisers who took to Bute Park to complete a Resolution Run for the Stroke Association on Sunday 11 March.” “Thanks to their efforts and the generosity of their family,…

From today (March 12), people in Cardiff can now use their contactless debit or credit cards to donate to those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness as part of new alternative giving scheme, Give DIFFerently. Funded through FOR Cardiff, an interactive screen featuring Cardiff Blues’ Sam Warburton, has been installed on the Hayes. The screen and technology behind it enables members of the public to ‘Card it for Cardiff’ by tapping their card on the window at any…

250 schools, 2500 teachers, 25 000 students with a total of 250 000 people in communities will be engaged in The Non-Violence Project Foundation (NVPF)’s educational project in Uganda, thanks to the financial support from the City and the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland. The 3-year project is an outreach to stem the escalation of youth violence in the country, which has increased partly due to lack of knowledge on how to solve conflicts peacefully and to the high rate…