Looking after Your health

If you are in the middle of closing, downsizing or moving offices and have between 4 to 6 desks that you no longer need Age Connects might be able to take them from your hands.  

If you live in the Vale of Glamorgan and feel you need support to return to employment, training or work experience, then contact Vale of Glamorgan Council CELT +Project.

The Rights Ambassadors is a universal/open access county-wide youth project managed by the Vale Youth Service and funded by the Children’s and Young People’s Partnership. The group is part of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ Community Ambassadors scheme The Rights Ambassadors project raises awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)and the Children & Young People’s National Participation Standards.

Students from UWC Atlantic College recently joined our volunteers at CF61 in Llantwit Major to help with our new raised vegetable beds. They cleared, prepared and levelled the ground before adding the two raised beds made out of old pallets which they filled before planting.

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In Spring of this year, with the help of a dedicated group of volunteers, the commitments made when requesting a grant will have been completed.  The group now looks forward to sustaining all these improvements and maintaining its strong volunteer base.

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Looking after Your health

Give Blood and help to save lives

The local RAYNET group for Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan counties are currently arranging a number of Community Awareness Presentation Talks on what they do and their local operations, these talks are available on Monday or Friday evenings.

A siren-like alert will be sent to smartphone users across the UK next month to test a new government public warning system. The test is expected to take place in the early evening of 23 April.

Barry Air Target Club was started in June 2012 under the name of LS Haven Air Target Club. Since Covid-19 the Club has been busy upgrading, we have 10 firing points at 10 meters, one can be converted into a six yard Bell Target. This requires shooting a .177 pellet through a 9.5 mm hole in a steel plate to ring a bell behind at six yards, it’s a great challenge!

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Glamorgan Voluntary Services (GVS) latest Spring editions of GVS’ e-Vista magazine and Sustainable Funding News is now available to download. Don’t miss the latest news from and relevant to the Third Sector in the Vale of Glamorgan and surrounding areas.

Glamorgan Voluntary Services (GVS) latest Spring editions of GVS’ e-Vista magazine and Sustainable Funding News is now available to download. Don’t miss the latest news from and relevant to the Third Sector in the Vale of Glamorgan and surrounding areas.

Reviewing and Re-starting your Career

Glamorgan Voluntary Services (GVS) Printing and Design Service efficiently meets the needs of member organisations. The Service is highly valued and favourably priced for the Third Sector it serves. 

GVS’ Design Service extends to pull-up banners, PVC banners, magazines, leaflets, event programmes and lots more! 

GVS would like to talk to parents, carers and organisations that work with children and young people. We would like to get your views on what the revised Welsh Government’s Child Poverty Strategy should include.

Cardiff Youth Justices Service