Grants to support organisations and activities that use physical activity to enable disabled people and those who face disadvantage to fulfil their potential and to develop personal and life skills.

Up to £120k available for Core Costs to support essential organisational and administrative spending. These are the key expenses required to keep your organisation running.

The Ironmongers’ Company wishes to support projects seeking up to £10k that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential.

Up to £25k for applications that fall into one of the five core categories below; Arts and Heritage, Education, Environment, Health, Social or Economic Disadvantage.

Please click the link to see the latest bulletin from the Wales Council of the Blind.

Info Session: Osteoarthritis

Wednesday 14th December

Online via Teams 11am-12pm

Read about GVS’ superb AGM and Conference and read about GVS’ achievements in our Impact Report for 2021-2022

Blood that has been grown in a laboratory has been put into people in a world-first clinical trial, UK researchers say.

Researchers have discovered a hormone which could help predict whether men will develop certain diseases in later life.

Small grants up to £30,000 available covering essential equipment from goalposts to pitch maintenance equipment.

The Moondance Foundation offers grants to organisations and causes that provide transformational changes in communities in Wales and beyond.

The Minister for Health and Social Services is seeking to appoint a new Vice-Chairperson (Non-Executive Director), to join the Public Health Wales Board. Deadline for Applications: 14 November 2022. Interview date: 7 December 2022.

Information about the Falls Prevention in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, services and resources

The Vale Public Services Board (PSB) is consulting on its second Well-being Plan which will be published in May 2023. The new Well-being Plan sets out three new Well-being Objectives and the priority areas that the PSB will be focusing on over the coming years. We want to know what you think of our new Plan which has been informed by the Well-being Assessment, A View of the Vale of Glamorgan – An Assessment of Current and Future Well-being published earlier this year and by engagement over the summer.

Our Health Board continues to face extreme pressures across services which includes maternity. In July, the Health Board unfortunately had to make the difficult decision to suspend home birthing services until October 2022 to alleviate workforce pressures in hospital midwifery settings. Home birthing services remain temporarily suspended, but the team are committed to doing their best to re-establish a home birthing service as soon as possible.

Values and the value of volunteering – our hidden asset.

An online launch event for a paper on the value of volunteering within health and social care will be held on 23 November 4 – 5 pm online.

Are you a leader in the third or voluntary sector working in social care? Help shape our collective and compassionate leadership programme

We are developing a new programme for senior leaders in social care, to help build collective and compassionate leadership in the sector.

The Council once again wants to Ask Cardiff what’s important to citizens and local communities in the city.

In its annual survey that gives people living and working in Cardiff and visitors the chance to share their experiences of public services, the Council is keen to better understand how people experience the city and services to help inform planning for the future.

Free Seated Sports sessions with sense Thursday 13:30pm - 14:30pm (fortnightly) at STAE Hub, Muirton Road, CArdiff, CF24 2SJ. The next session is Thursday 10th November.