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		<title>Pencoed resident shortlisted for UK-wide ‘What is Care?’ photography award</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Public vote now open A heart-warming photograph taken by Rhiannon Kirkham from Pencoed, Bridgend has been shortlisted in a UK-wide competition by leading home care provider Caremark, as part of its ‘What is Care?’ photography competition. Launched to mark 20 years of Caremark championing home care in communities, the competition asked the public to capture [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Swansea University to celebrate 200 years of braille with free public event</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Swansea University will be the first stop in Wales on a nationwide tour commemorating 200 years of braille, helping to highlight how this tactile system of raised dots empowers people with sight loss. To mark this special anniversary, the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has launched the Braille and Beyond Tour, visiting a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Outstanding Cardiff care assistant wins ‘Incredible of The Year’ national award</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kat.rand@pmwcom.co.uk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At a prestigious awards ceremony held at Fortnum &#38; Mason in London, leading UK care provider Caremark crowned Arjanpreet [Preet] Kaur – a care assistant from Cardiff – as ‘The Incredible of The Year’. Preet stood out for her exceptional caregiving, triumphing over ten outstanding finalists and a pool of more than 5,500 care assistants [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Green social prescribing: what it is, why we should care and how it’s impacting the people of the Valleys</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TezniBP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 16:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Green social prescribing is a mental health and wellbeing initiative which helps individuals connect to non-medical services and activities in the great outdoors — and last year, more people in the South Wales Valleys than ever took part. Also known as ‘nature prescribing’, the concept has been explored by medical professionals for more than 20 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT BOOST FROM EDENSTONE</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lucy Castle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[EDENSTONE has committed to providing life-saving resources for the communities in which it operates. To date the housebuilding group has provided six defibrillators in or near to its new homes’ developments, with additional funding also being provided to support the provision of equipment further afield The company, with its two housing brands, Edenstone Homes and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>BANGOR BORN SURGEON IS FIRST TO BRING BRAND NEW STEM CELL TREATMENT TO THE UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mr Mallappa Kolar, born in Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales is the UK’s leading surgeon on Stem Cells &#8211; and is delighted to be bringing a new, life changing procedure to the forefront for those in need. His expertise within stem cell treatments has allowed him to pioneer a type of procedure here for the first [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fundraising group marks diamond charity milestone and 60th birthday celebration</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[macmanusr@bhf.org.uk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A group of fundraising friends from Neath Port Talbot are having a joint celebration as one of their members marks her 60th birthday in the same year as they charity they support. The group has raised over £680 and counting for the BHF&#8217;s 60th anniversary challenge Beverley Carver was born in Neath Hospital on October [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>BHF CYMRU AND SWIM WALES ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO GET INTO WATER ON WORLD HEART DAY</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[macmanusr@bhf.org.uk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This World Heart Day, Wednesday 29th September, BHF Cymru, the British Heart Foundation in Wales is teaming up with Swim Wales to encourage people of all ages to Get Into Water and take part in the Swim 60 Challenge, to improve their health and raise vital funds to power the charity’s life saving research into heart and circulatory disease. As [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Abercrave Cyclist reflects on Drag Race Challenge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[macmanusr@bhf.org.uk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A 30-year-old bike enthusiast from Abercave near Ystradgynlais is recovering from a physically demanding, but very rewarding weekend. Last Saturday and Sunday (4-5 Sept) David Godden, who works for the Penderyn Distillery, took on a physical challenge in fabulous style, cycling 75 miles in drag – resplendent in a frock, fascinator and gorgeous wig, all [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>BHF Cymru welcomes heart screening funding for patients</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[macmanusr@bhf.org.uk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The British Heart Foundation has welcomed news that a life-saving service the charity co-funded for two years has now secured NHS funding because of its success. The funding means patients in Swansea Bay and Hywel Dda health areas will benefit from the life saving tests,  but the charity is calling for a Wales-wide screening programme. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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