Thursday – 20th June 2024

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Mini Volunteering Fayre at CF61 Community Centre Llantwit Major

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Adam Harcombe’s life changed forever after a night out in September 2020.

Citizens Advice Cardiff & Vale are an independent charity that provides free, confidential and impartial information and advice to the residents of the City and County of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, as well as to Wales and further afield.

This Dietitians Week, which runs from 3-7 June, celebrates dietetics as a career.

Mum Jessica Roberts loves baking banana bread for her 10-month-old son, Elijah. She’s also mastered a mouth-watering fruity chicken curry and has wowed friends with her homemade pizzas.

Oriau a lleoliad: 22.5 awr yr wythnos y gellir eu gweithio’n hyblyg dros yr wythnos. Cyflog: Cyflog blynyddol gwirioneddol o £24,407 yn codi drwy gynyddiad blynyddol i £25,630 yn seiliedig ar 22.5 awr yr wythnos (cyfwerth ag amser llawn £40,136 yn codi i £42,147). Dyddiad cau: Dydd Llun 24 Mehefin 2024

Hours and location: 22.5 hours a week that can be worked flexibly during Monday to Friday. Salary: Actual annual salary is £24,407 rising by an annual increment to £25,630 based on 22.5 hrs per week (full-time equivalent £40,136 rising to £42,147). Closing date: Monday 24 June 2024

With funding received via Cardiff and Vale Health Board we are excited to announce that ‘Fit Bluebirds’ is now running in the Vale of Glamorgan. FIT Bluebirds is a FREE health programme for men and women aged 35-65 who are looking to lose weight, get fitter and lead a more active life.

This week Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is celebrating Volunteers’ Week, and saying thank you to the hundreds of people who freely give their time to make such a difference to patients, services and staff.

Thanks to the support of the Cardiff Third Sector Council, Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board and Llais, VOICES ADFOCAD will be hosting the second annual Cardiff and Vale Unpaid Carers Assembly at Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground on October 2nd 2024.

The newsletter highlights the Vale 50+ Strategy Forum's recent activity which has taken place since the Annual General Meeting at the end of last year.

Public health officials are reminding parents and carers to ensure that their children are fully vaccinated with two doses of the MMR vaccine, as cases in the Gwent measles outbreak rise to 17.

The most common form of cancer diagnosed in Wales in 2020 was still non-melanoma skin cancer, despite a 17 per cent drop in diagnoses since 2019 associated with restrictions during the pandemic.

Public Health Wales recognise that local people are very concerned about the odours around the landfill site at Withyhedge. We continue to call for improved air quality data to be provided, to allow us to make a health risk assessment of the site.

Public Health Wales has released its most recent Child Measurement Programme official statistics which cover the period 2022-23.

As the Infected Blood Inquiry report is published, we would like to remind people that there is a free home testing service in Wales that you can use to test for blood borne viruses.