If you're looking to make a positive impact, the Big Volunteering Fayre on Wednesday 29 January 2025, from 10am to 2pm, at Memo Arts Centre in Barry is the perfect opportunity.

Local organisations have approached us and so this is a space where local organisations can come together, collaborate and share information to explore opportunities for continuing the provision for 30 older people who are currently accessing our offer. 

Expressions of Interest are invited from social prescribing practitioners and educators to test a new digital learning resource developed by Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW). 

Supporting Mental Health & Wellbeing in Cardiff & Vale. Grants of up to £500. Closing date Friday 24th January 2025

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is launching its new annual notification service for volunteer subscribers to the Update Service, allowing subscribers to confirm that they still require the service.

Are you a DIY enthusiast with a knack for prepping, priming and painting? Do you find joy in sewing and fixing things up? Do you like tinkering and helping to keep things running? If so, the outdoor education sail training charity, Challenge Wales, needs you as one of their maintenance volunteers!

Neges i bobl hŷn gan Rhian Bowen-Davies, Comisiynydd Pobl Hŷn Cymru.

Awarding grants from £50,000 to £1million, this fund aims to strengthen the resilience of Wales’ network of protected land and marine sites.

A message to older people from Rhian Bowen-Davies, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales

🎄🎅 Can you help the Welsh Blood Service during the Festive period?

♥️1 donation can save up to 3 lives or 6 babies!

📍Llantwit Major Leisure Centre – 23rd December 2024

Public Health Wales’s latest Screening Inequities report shows that people living in the most deprived communities in Wales are less likely to take up their offer of screening compared to those living in the least deprived communities.

The Behavioural Science Unit at Public Health Wales has released a new report designed to help policy makers understand the breadth of behaviour change intervention types required to change population behaviours.

We are starting to see an increase in respiratory illnesses, including flu and COVID-19, across our hospital sites.

This report contains sensitive content which refers to details on deaths by suspected suicide. 

Public Health Wales has published its second biodiversity action plan which outlines the work that it will undertake as part of its duty under the Environment Act.  The plan is focused on the importance of biodiversity for health and well-being and the actions Public Health Wales will take to be a champion for nature.

As 2024 comes to an end, Chair Charles ‘Jan’ Janczewski and Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Rankin have shared their festive messages, reflecting on the year’s successes and challenges. 

Residents of a Cardiff care home say their strength, coordination and overall wellbeing have greatly improved thanks to new exercise classes inspired by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.

A collaborative pilot involving health and third-sector organisations has launched in the Emergency Unit (A&E) at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) to reduce the harm from alcohol in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

SilverCloud® Wales, an online platform providing guided, self-help support based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), is being promoted with an awareness campaign at foodbanks in key Welsh towns and cities.

Last week the All-Wales National Robotic Assisted Surgery Programme announced it has surpassed 500 robotic assisted surgical cases using the Versius robot. The 500th surgical procedure was performed at the University Hospital of Wales by Jared Torkington, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.