Calendar of events happening in May 2023 & June 2023:

Social prescribing is an innovative approach to healthcare that involves linking patients with non-medical sources of support to improve their health and wellbeing, and in Wales, where rates of chronic illness and social isolation are high - it has the potential to make a significant impact on public health.

Atal y Fro - the charity championing & supporting survivors of violence against women & girls, domestic abuse and sexual violence in the Vale of Glamorgan - is launching a new five-year strategy as part of its ongoing commitment to breaking the cycle of domestic violence and abuse in Wales.

Volunteers’ Week 1st – 7th June is the biggest week in the volunteering calendar.  In its 39th year, it is a time to say thank you to volunteers for the fantastic contribution they make to volunteering. Download a “thank you” to volunteers certificate. Attend one of our Volunteering Events.

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week — an annual event that encourages us all to think about our mental wellbeing, tackle stigma and increase awareness of mental health conditions.

On International Day of the Midwife, colleagues from across our Maternity Services came together to celebrate all of our midwives, midwifery students and support workers for all they do.

The Welsh Government has become the first full government in the UK to achieve Fostering Friendly status, Deputy Minister for Social Services Julie Morgan has announced at the start of Foster Care Fortnight™ 2023.

New high quality, free, diversity and anti-racist professional learning (DARPL) provision and resources are now available for practitioners working with babies and young children providing childcare, play and nursery education, Deputy Minister for Social Services Julie Morgan has announced.

The Cardiff and Vale Integrated Health and Social Care Partnership has allocated funding to support third sector community activities and services for older people in the Vale of Glamorgan.

The Fund is open for applications from Tuesday 16th May 2023, with a deadline for submission of 12 noon on Thursday 8th June 2023.

The Welsh Charity Awards are back. Your chance to celebrate the life changing impact of not only charities but volunteers and voluntary organisations of all shapes and sizes in Wales.

Volunteer on the Reception team and a Volunteer as an E-commerce Assistant for Cerebral Palsy Cymru

Salary: Circa £35K per annum (full time equivalent)

Term: Permanent

Hours: 15 hours per week (2 days)

Main base: Cardiff

Closing date: Monday 5 June 2023 at midday.

Salary: £25 per hour

Term: Freelance

Main base: Swansea

Closing date: Monday 5 June 2023 at midday.

Salary: Circa £25K per annum

Term: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Main base: Merthyr

Closing date: Monday 5 June 2023 at midday.

Salary: Circa £25K per annum

Term: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Main base: Merthyr

Closing date: Monday 5 June 2023 at midday.

Salary: Circa £25K per annum

Term: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Main base: Cardiff

Closing date: Monday 5 June 2023 at midday

Wales joins organisations around the world to promote awareness of ME - the disease where pushing harder can make you sicker. In honour of World ME Day on May 12, 2023 WAMES and the World ME Alliance are proud to announce the launch of a global awareness campaign addressing the hallmark symptom of ME: post-exertional malaise (PEM) and using the tagline “ME: the disease where pushing harder can make you sicker.”

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Listening to the "conversations" of brain cells as they develop could help researchers to better understand the early causes of Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's is the second most common neurodegenerative condition after Alzheimer's disease. The disease causes parts of the brain to become progressively damaged over many years. But relatively little is known about its early stages, as much of the damage happens before symptoms appear.

A calendar of free online training and well-being/information sessions