Blue skies and high fives were the orders of the day as Cardiff and Vale University Health Board staff came out in force to support their local hospital charity at the annual Cardiff Bay Bed Push event on Sunday 12 May 2019. Hundreds of people came down to Cardiff Bay Barrage for the second Bed Push Challenge to support Doctors, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Health Board Staff and corporate supporters Admiral Law who were raising money for wards and…

This October, actress and TV presenter Lisa Riley is encouraging the UK public to dig out their pink glad rags for Breast Cancer Now’s flagship fundraiser, wear it pink, which takes place on Friday 19 October. Wear it pink, the UK’s biggest pink fundraiser which takes place during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, calls on supporters to ditch their everyday colours and pull on some pink to raise money for Breast Cancer Now’s life-saving breast cancer research. The fundraising event,…

    MoRunning have announced they will host MoRuns at 22 different locations across the UK and Ireland throughout the month of ‘Movember’ including in Cardiff, to help raise awareness of men’s health issues and to raise vital funds for the Movember Foundation. The Cardiff MoRun will take place on 10th November and will see runners go through Bute Park. MoRunning events are suited to runners of all abilities and of all ages, with a 5k option for the fun…

Join Breast Cancer Now this October for the UK’s biggest pink fundraiser, Wear It Pink. Wear it pink, Breast Cancer Now’s flagship fundraiser, takes place on Friday 20 October during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to raise money for life-saving breast cancer research. To get involved, all you have to do is ditch your everyday colours, pull on some pink, and fundraise to help Breast Cancer Now achieve its aim – that by 2050 everyone who develops breast cancer will live….

In distressing circumstances legal advice provides certainty and comfort. However for some this support is out of reach. J’s case is just one of many where, without the support of the free legal advice sector, there would be no access to justice. Advice charities support some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in our society; enabling them to understand their legal issues, access their rights and giving them the ability to regain control of their lives. Following the recession,…

Brewhouse, Cardiff’s best live music and sports venue, is to host over 100 teams from 25 countries descending on Cardiff next week (21st August until 28th August) to take part in the world’s biggest rugby festival, The Golden Oldies World Rugby Festival. Brewhouse is supporting the festival by supplying live music acts at the opening and closing ceremonies at the Principality Stadium, as well as keeping the teams entertained on the Brewhouse stage with local acts performing during the playing…

Cardiff based Pet Den manager Liane Shield is to run the Great North Run to raise money and awareness for a charity close to her heart. Liane, who manages Cardiff based dog grooming and pampering company, The Pet Den Ltd, will be taking on the world’s largest half marathon to raise vital funds for assistance dog charity Support Dogs. Support Dogs trains and provides specialist assistance dogs to deliver life changing support children with autism and adults with disabilities and…

Nine brave employees from Creditsafe’s Group Service Centre in Cardiff took part in a testing 24km trek across the vast Brecon Beacons in aid of their Charity of the Year, Ronald McDonald House Charities.   The employees embarked on the mountainous route as part of the annual ‘Fan Dance Race’ event on Saturday 4 June to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House in Cardiff, which will provide free ‘home away from home’ accommodation to families with seriously ill children…

Volunteers’ Week is a chance for everyone to say a huge thank you to their amazing volunteers. From joining a fundraising group to using their cancer experience to make a difference, thousands of people give their time unpaid to help people affected by cancer across the UK. The week long event held this year on the 1st – 7th June, is particularly special for one volunteer group in South Wales, which was formed in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust in South…

Cardiff Marrow Society are raising awareness in a fundraiser. The occurrence that sparked this event was that one of the students at Cardiff university was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer and she urgently needs a bone marrow transplant. This is her story,  “Up till just a few months ago, everything was falling right into place for Vithiya Alphons (24), a final year optometry student at Cardiff University. Having just returned from a summer spent travelling in Moldova and…