In developing a business or a career we have to be honest with ourselves in terms of what we can achieve given the resources we have at our disposal. For our personal development we must always maintain the self-belief that we can achieve a bigger and better future, this must be balanced against self-awareness. Winners have a great way of reality checking what they need to do to get the result, understanding our strengths and...
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Blaenau Gwent CBC’s STEM Facilitation Project, a pilot funded by Welsh Government’s Tech Valleys commitment, is helping to build a network of relationships between local businesses and schools. The project establishes a co-ordinated programme of support, centred on “industry in schools”, within a cluster of Blaenau Gwent based schools, raising aspiration and preparing learners for their journey into the world of work, whilst remaining complementary to the school curriculum. The aim is to help raise...
A Welsh Government programme that exists to reduce digital exclusion in Wales has been extended for another three years until 2025. Delivered by the Wales Co-operative Centre in partnership with the Good Things Foundation and Swansea University, Digital Communities Wales: Digital Confidence, Health and Well-being commenced in July 2019 and provides support for any organisation to help develop digital inclusion projects and to increase the digital skills and confidence of the people they work with...
The Welsh Health Hack is returning for its 9th event, to create new innovation to solve challenges faced by colleagues across healthcare, academia and industry. The Welsh Health Hack stimulates and supports innovation to create healthcare systems, process, practices, methods fit for the future supported by technology. It offers a great opportunity for NHS Wales staff, universities, and industry to collaborate and network to develop early-stage ideas that might solve operational health challenges proposed by...
The third round of the Welsh Government’s Cultural Recovery Fund (CRF) opens for applications today, with businesses and organisations who have not previously received support under the fund now eligible to apply, Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, Dawn Bowden, has confirmed. New entrants for CRF 3 can today apply from the Business Wales website, where further details and application forms are available. Applications will need to be returned by Friday 11 February 2022. To...
Taking place between 7 and 13 February 2022, Apprenticeship Week is an annual week-long celebration of apprenticeships, and the value they bring to employers and learners in Wales. Apprenticeships allow businesses to recruit new talent, hungry to learn, to fills skills gaps cost-effectively and enable learners, of any age, to increase their skills levels. Bringing together apprentices, training providers, parents and employers, Apprenticeship Week highlights the work being done across the whole apprenticeship community to...
The Geovation Accelerator Programme is backed by Ordnance Survey and HM Land Registry. The Programme offers 6 months intensive support, structured to each start-ups needs aimed at help founders grow their business. Start-ups receive up to £20,000 grant funding and the equivalent to over £100,000 in benefits on the Programme. Applications for the Spring 2022 intake are now open and are seeking start-ups working in PropTech, as well as start-ups using location data in the...
The Welsh Government is investing a further £4.5 million of capital funding this year in new sport facilities across Wales, Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, Dawn Bowden has announced. The additional capital funding will support projects to enhance facilities, which will help drive increased participation across a wide range of sports. The funding will be delivered through Sport Wales. This brings the total capital investment in sport by the Welsh Government this year to...
The move completes the Welsh Government’s phased lifting of the alert level two protections, which were put in place on Boxing Day to keep Wales safe as the omicron wave swept across the country. Some important protections will remain in place at alert level zero, including mandatory face coverings in most indoor public places, including on public transport. On Friday 28 January 2022, Wales will complete the move to alert level zero. This means: Nightclubs...
From April, employers will be obliged to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to workers, as well as employees, who may be exposed to health and safety risks at work. An amendment to the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992, will come into force on 6 April 2022. Organisations will need to undertake a risk assessment to establish whether a worker requires PPE to carry out their work tasks. If they do, the employer will...