Glamorgan Voluntary Services are delighted to announce that applications are now open for 2024/25 Third Sector Small Grant Scheme – Community Action Fund. This scheme (revenue and capital) aims to support community action and volunteering which aims to improve the local community, local environment and the health and wellbeing of people in the Vale of Glamorgan. Organisations can apply for a maximum of £3000. There is no minimum amount. The deadline for submission of 12 noon on 21st June 2024.

Around 2,000 fewer women in Wales will need to have an anti-D injection during their pregnancy, thanks to a new cell-free fetal DNA testing programme being launched today.

An exciting new project has been launched that aims to get more organically-produced Welsh vegetables into primary school meals across Wales.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is delighted to announce Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon Indu Deglurkar has been named a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Would you like to be part of a community that’s helping to shape the future of health care in Wales? Applications to join Genomics Partnership Wales Patient and Public Sounding Board are now open for 2024!

For the sessions available in May 2024 & June 2024 please click here.

This Deaf Awareness Week, RNID is releasing new research, highlighting the negative attitudes and lack of understanding people who are deaf or have hearing loss face every day.

A Public Health Wales study exploring prehabilitation interventions has identified that more research is needed to fully understand their effectiveness for improving patients’ health whilst waiting for surgery.

Public Health Wales has announced that it will focus its research onto six priority areas, to coincide with the long term strategy and Research and Evaluation strategy it launched last year.

Public health experts have welcomed the publication of a new five-year National Action Plan to combat antimicrobial resistance.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has developed a new, user-friendly website to help children, young people and families gain a better understanding of the Neurodevelopmental Service.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is calling on all colleagues to play their part in reducing the organisation’s carbon footprint. NHS Wales has set the Health Board a target of achieving a 16% reduction in carbon emissions by 2025 and a 34% reduction by 2030.

Everyone must play their part in preventing one of the world’s biggest killers, Wales’ Chief Medical and Veterinary Officers have said as they launch the next stage of a 20-year plan to reduce resistance to antibiotics.

Over the coming months, VOICES ADFOCAD will be running Soup and a Slice sessions across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. The sessions are aimed at unpaid carers, young and old, and will offer carers and those they care for the opportunity to meet with other unpaid carers in a safe, friendly and welcoming environment.

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) are working across Wales in partnership with the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services (CWVYS), The Welsh Council of the Blind, North Wales Society for the Blind, Vision Support and Boys and Girls Clubs of Wales. Register to undertake this free online training offer to support young people who are vision impaired to be able to access services, educate others and improve inclusive practices.

National Walking Month is back this May. Taking a short walk regularly can reduce the risk of preventable conditions, including certain cancers, depression, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

5th May 2024 marks International Day of the Midwife and this year, we shine a light on our incredible Elan Midwifery Team which supports vulnerable women and families. 

New research from Public Health Wales and Bangor University, published today in BMJ Open, shows that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can affect people’s perceptions of their ability to cope during the cost of living crisis.

When Rachel Flynn gave birth to her healthy baby son Finley on a midwifery-led unit in March 2017, she was elated at becoming a mum for the first time. But just 10 days later she found herself back in the same hospital needing acute psychiatric support after her mental health took a significant - and completely unexpected - turn for the worse.

HEIW Mental Health Lived Experience events taking place across Wales for people with lived experience of mental health challenges and/or who work in mental health services, unpaid carers and third sector organisations.