As the nation marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has been accredited as ‘Veteran Aware’. This mark of distinction means that patients who have served in the UK armed forces will be cared for by frontline staff who have received training and education on their specific needs, such as around mental health, and who can signpost them to local support services. The Health Board is one of 24…

A unique video project commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Wales’s most famous Great War poet, Ellis Humphrey Evans was last Thursday (November 10th) beamed onto the front of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth after receiving backing from the ScottishPower Foundation. Snowdonia shepherd Evans – better known by his bardic name of Hedd Wyn (Welsh for ‘Blessed Peace’) – was killed on the opening day of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, days after being sent…

Pupils and staff from St Teilo’s Church in Wales High School, located in Llanedeyrn in Cardiff, have joined forces to show their respect to the fallen Service men and women by decorating their entire school with poppies. Each year the school creates remembrance displays, and this year the whole school has been transformed. Students across the age range have individually prepared one poppy with each petal containing a prayer, thought or reflection. When making their poppies, children considered the examples…