Archive for 2012
New Caerphilly Café to help volunteers back into work
A new social enterprise café has opened in Caerphilly town helping adults with past drug problems to get back into work. |
Wage subsidies announced for Remploy workers
The UK Government has announced extra financial support for companies interested in buying Remploy sites due to be closed. The Department for Work and Pensions has said it is willing to offer a wage subsidy to companies which buy the sites and offer employment to disabled workers. |
Information event on Caerphilly Miners’ Hospital Community Centre being held tomorrow
 | Residents of Caerphilly have been invited to an event to find out more on plans to transform the original Caerphilly Miners’ Hospital building into a community centre. |
Caerphilly PACT meetings announced
 | The next round of Partnerships and Communities Together (PACT) meetings for the Caerphilly area will be held over the next couple of weeks. |
Bargoed’s Hanbury Chapel library project given award
 | The regeneration of Bargoed’s Hanbury Chapel into a new state-of-the-art library has won a prestigious award. Charity Action for Market Towns has awarded the Bargoed Library project with its Social and Community Award in the Welsh region. |
Take part in Gwent Police’s online consultation
Residents will be able to chat live online with one of Gwent Police’s top officers. The web chat, part of its ‘Come and talk to us’ survey, is taking place tonight (May 17) between 6pm and 8pm. |
Charity Llamau needs votes to secure £15,000 from People’s Postcode Lottery
Charity Llamau, which helps homeless youngsters and vulnerable women across Caerphilly County Borough is in the running to secure £15,000 from the People’s Postcode Trust. |
New ways of working with Vodafone
Against a background of ever-changing technologies, businesses are adapting their ways of working in order to succeed and grow in today’s market. |
New dangerous dog guidelines welcomed by Islwyn MP
Islwyn MP Chris Evans has welcomed new sentencing guidelines which could see owners of dangerous dogs going to jail. The Sentencing Council for England and Wales has said owners that fail to stop their dogs attacking people in a public place should face six months in prison. |
Welsh women’s rugby captain swaps scrums for scrubs to become nurse
 | The captain of the Welsh women’s rugby team, who is from Caerphilly, is aiming to prove she can pass medical exams as well as rugby balls by studying to become a nurse. |
Programme launched to raise reading standards in Wales
A programme to drive up literacy standards in schools has been launched by Welsh Education Minister Leighton Andrews. The National Literacy Programme (NLP) sets out the actions the Welsh Government and its partners need to take to achieve a step change in literacy standards over the next five years. |
Crime on Wales’ railways drops by a quarter
 | Crime on Wales’ railways fell by more than a quarter last financial year, according to latest figures from the British Transport Police. |
