Are you supporting people over 50 living in the Vale of Glamorgan who may benefit from relationship counselling or family counselling? Relate Cymru is offering up to eight FREE sessions with a trained therapist.

Cardiff office, 21 hours per week, £25,824pa (pro rata) - £15,495pa Fixed Term Contract until September 2024 Closing date: 28 August 2023 

A new campaign is encouraging parents to get their children’s eyes tested this summer at their local opticians.

Request from Heléna Herklots CBE, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales

Public Health Wales is seeking to work with key stakeholders to create a vision for academic public health research in Wales. This work will begin by examining the public health research landscape in Wales, before developing a vision that harnesses Wales’ unique strengths and capacity, to address the health and wellbeing challenges facing our population.

HMRC is inviting bids for funding of between £30,000 and £600,000 per year, with a maximum threshold set at 50% of your organisation’s turnover (last audited accounts). The application window opened on Monday 24 July 2023 and the window closes at 11.59 pm on Monday 21 August 2023.

Professor Jim McManus will be joining Public Health Wales as its new National Director of Health and Wellbeing in the autumn. Jim joins Public Health Wales from Hertfordshire County Council where he has been Director of Public Health for more than 11 years. He brings substantial experience in strategic working in public health and a significant track record of working at a national, United Kingdom and international level in recent years in his role as President of the UK Association of Directors of Public Health.

The GVS 2023 GVS Annual General Meeting will be held “in person” at St. Paul’s Community Centre, Arcot Street, Penarth, CF64 1EU on Wednesday, 25th October at 10.00am finishing by 12noon followed by a light buffet lunch. Further details on how to register will be sent a little later but this is to give you notice so that you can save the date.

Cymru Versus Arthritis info session:

Online via Teams Thursday 17th August 2023, 10:30am - 11:30am

Hello! My name’s Eleri, I’m a trainee educational psychologist at Cardiff University. For my thesis research, I would like to hear from parents/carers of young adults with Down Syndrome across Wales. I would like to explore what it was like for their young person to become an adult during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sense Cymru are running their next FREE sensory walks training workshop on Tuesday 15th August. It is suitable for anyone with an interest in developing and leading a sensory walk.

Hello, my name is Jess Tempest and I work for YMCA, Healthy Relationship Service. I am the C-Card coordinator for the Vale of the Glamorgan. I can also facilitate group sessions and training for young people and professionals. The YMCA Healthy Relationship Service is a specialist and confidential Sexual Health and Relationship Service.

Thursday – 17 August 2023. Online via Teams 10.30 am – 11.30 pm

As a public health organisation, we want inclusivity to run through all aspects of the work we deliver for the people of Wales.

Our current Strategic Equality Plan – which sets out how we will address inequalities – is coming to the end of its four year cycle. During recent months we have been involving staff and stakeholders in developing some draft objectives to take us from April 2024 - March 2028.

We are now launching a consultation with the public for three months. The deadline for responses is 1 November 2023.

In the latest survey from Public Health Wales’ Time to Talk Public Health panel, 6 in 10 people said they would be likely (38 percent) or very likely (23 percent) to take up the offer of face-to-face bystander to violence training if offered.

On World Hepatitis Day, the latest annual report from Public Health Wales into blood borne viruses (BBVs), including hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV infections, shows there has been progress towards eliminating these infections as a public health problem by 2030 in Wales.

Cycle to Work Day, the UK’s biggest celebration of cycle commuting, is back on Thursday, August 3.

Patients and their relatives affected by two inherited blood disorders were treated to a special family fun day in Grangetown.

Children and young people across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan are being taught how to safely swallow tablets and capsules so they can switch from liquid medication for pills in a Wales-first initiative.

This week (1 – 7 August) we’re joining organisations around the world to support World Breastfeeding Week! At Cardiff and the Vale University Health Board, we run a number of community breastfeeding support groups across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. All groups are run by experienced health visitors or midwives, apart from peer support groups which are run by parents who have been trained to provide breastfeeding support.