Later Life Inclusion grants programme is open to local and national charities that are working to reduce loneliness and isolation in later life.

Coetiroedd Bach / Tiny Forests in Wales is a new grant scheme as part of the National Forest programme. We are offering smaller grants of between £10k and £40K for sites (up to £250k for multiple sites) that adhere to Tiny Forest principles.

Agile Cymru funding can support a wide range of activity; the focus is on the outcome and benefit for Wales.

Up to £30,000 for projects that improve road safety at a local level.

This programme is for small local charities and community interest companies (CICs) with an income between £25,000 - £500,000 working with people who have faced inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Organisations can apply for a three year unrestricted grant of £75,000.

Charities and CICs seeking to influence and achieve change in national policy and practice around specific issues within accommodation, social security, and refugees and asylum seeker support can apply for grants of £30,000 - £150,000.

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Cardiff and Vale Action for Mental Health (Cavamh) is looking to recruit a Website Co-ordinator. Closing date is 27th April 2023 at 12

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.

Free training in Cardiff on 16th May. Do you want to help end violence against women? Why not attend #AskMe, our free public training? To register you must be 18 or over and live, study, work or volunteer in South Wales.

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.

The Vale of Glamorgan Council’s Warm Welcome programme has awarded nearly £30,000 to community projects and seen more than 3,500 people use their facilities this winter.

The GVS gardening project at our Community Centre, CF61 in Llantwit Major has had lots of new additions over the last month.

The proportion of people in Wales who used the internet and digital technology to manage their health nearly doubled from 25 per cent in 2019/20 to 46 per cent in 2020/21, according to research published today by Public Health Wales.

There will be a national test of the UK Emergency Alert Service on Sunday, 23rd April at 3pm. People with compatible 4G and 5G mobile phones and tablets will receive an alert as part of this test.

Vale of Glamorgan residents eligible for their spring COVID-19 booster vaccines will now be invited to attend one of our community-based clinics.

Feeling stressed is a normal part of life and can help motivate us to achieve our goals. But if you’re finding stress hard to cope with, there are things you can do to help.

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Cardiff and Vale RIC Hub is pleased to announce the release of our most recent newsletter collating best practice on how our region is using lived experience as an asset to improve our health and social care system, including:

An invaluable step by step beginner level introduction to the key features, giving you the skills and knowledge to confidently use Twitter.