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What’s on – Summer holiday activities August 12 – August 18
30/07/19 - Help for people who are homeless in Cardiff
• A multi-disciplinary team is available to help individuals to address their underlying issues. This team includes drug and alcohol worker, nurses, social workers, therapeutic worker and counsellor, peer mentors and access to rapid prescribing services
26/07/19 - Capital ready to host Homeless World Cup
An action-packed week of international football is on its way to Cardiff as the capital prepares to host the 2019 Homeless World Cup.
26/07/19 - From rock bottom to turning a life around
A former Cardiff rough sleeper, who has begun training as a barista in a city coffee shop, has spoken of how he hit rock bottom before seizing the opportunity to start rebuilding his life with the help of Cardiff Council’s homelessness services.
26/07/19 - Ysgol Gymraeg Treganna: ‘Exceptionally good quality of care, support and guidance' says Estyn
Ysgol Gymraeg Treganna in Canton has scored ‘excellent' in two of the five areas inspected by Estyn - the highest rating possible, and ‘good' in the other three categories looked at by the education inspectorate for Wales.
What’s on – Summer holiday activities August 5 – August 11
24/07/19 - Estyn: ‘Good quality care, support and guidance' at St Monica's Church in Wales Primary School
St Monica's Church in Wales Primary School in Cathays has achieved ‘good' in all five areas, examined by Estyn, the education inspectorate for Wales.
19/07/19 - Threading together the community
Pupils from a Cardiff primary have been swapping the classroom for altogether different lessons recently in an intergenerational project that is bringing the community together.
Cardiff Market opened for its first ‘Night Market’ last week. In just three hours the event attracted more than 2000 people and left traders planning to host similar events in the future.
Today a festival of art, music and dance to celebrate the career and achievements of Cardiff cyclist Geraint Thomas OBE, took place at Maindy Better Centre.
A £300,000 programme of work to upgrade and refurbish the chapels at Thornhill Crematorium begins at the end of the month.
Three of Cardiff’s parks apprentices have swapped Bute Park for the Isle of Bute as part of an exchange programme building on the links between the park and Mount Stuart House and Gardens, the ancestral home of the Bute family.
Rat droppings, mouse droppings and accumulations of food debris and fat were found at Sicilian Pizza on Cowbridge Road East when an inspection was carried out at the business.
18/07/19 - Member of ‘cash for crash’ scam found guilty
Michael Falkingham, 31, from Clos Y Berllan, Cardiff, has been found guilty of Contempt of Court relating to a claim for a false whiplash injury in a road traffic accident in 2014 when he wasn’t actually in either of the vehicles.
What’s on – Summer holiday activities July 29 – August 4
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.- Marian Wright Edelman
