Glamorgan Voluntary Services (GVS) now has an incredible 768 organisations in membership who benefit from a whole range of free services. GVS supports charitable, community groups and clubs operating in the Vale of Glamorgan and surrounding areas.

Glamorgan Voluntary Services’ (GVS) Gardening Project at CF61 in Llantwit Major has a new bench expertly designed and made by our amazing volunteer Nick Clark.

Run by Compassionate Penarth, this is a shared space to learn how to make your own quick bread and to take it home to share with others. It is also a space to talk and listen to each other around our experiences of love, loss, grief and caring. It is a safe space and we will learn together.

Run by Compassionate Penarth, the circle is for all men aged 18+ and is a shared space to talk free from advice and judgement. A place to share, listen and learn from each other in the spirit of friendship, empathy and compassion.

Vacancy for a Head of Campaigns with Shelter Cymru. Closing date 9am 11th September 2023

Parents Federation are holding sessions during August. Come and meet like-minded carers and share experiences and new ideas.

Delivered by 4Winds at Grange Pavilion, Grange Gardens, Cardiff, CF11 7LJ. If managing anger is a problem for you this course will give you increased understanding, tools and techniques to deal with it.

Cwmpas would like to invite you to the Community Tourism Hack for South Wales, in Merthyr Tydfil on September 19th. Central to this regional fully-funded event will be a Start Something Good® hackathon where you will be working in teams to develop fresh ideas for community-led tourism in Wales and a cross-sector community tourism network.

Oak Field Primary School in Barry has received a Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes National Quality Award following an excellent assessment.

Children who missed their first dose of the HPV vaccine can now attend a special catch-up clinic later this month.

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.