Grounds for Good is a locally based business established in 2020

Katherine PeachBusiness Snippets

Their mission is to change the way you think about used coffee grounds! It’s so important, now more than ever, to recognise and celebrate the importance that recycling plays in preserving our natural resources and securing the future of our planet. We must all think again about what we throw away, seeing not waste but opportunity, innovation and creativity. This … Read More

Little Fizz Shortlisted in National Awards

Katherine PeachBusiness Snippets

LittleFizz is a finalist in the independent of the Year and Baby & Toddler Class categories at the Wales Children’s Activities and Services Awards 2021, in associated with principal sponsor Beaming Babies UK. Liz Mullen, owner of the business said, “I am so excited to be a finalist at the Wales Children’s Activities and Services Awards 2021, it has been … Read More

A Class Act

Katherine PeachBusiness Snippets

Class Act Company won first and second place in the BRING IT! Dance Competition UK 2020. Entering into the under 12’s category, performing an original rendition of ‘It’s a Hard Knock Life’ from Annie. We’d love to also congratulate Class Act, Sienna Griffin, who auditioned and represented Wales, filming several acting episodes for CBeebies TV in summer 2020. “I am … Read More

Is Co-Working The New Normal Now?

Katherine PeachBusiness Articles, To export

The Vale of Glamorgan Council’s Creative Rural Communities team are launching a CoWorking Month this May to celebrate and promote the use of co-working spaces in the county’s rural towns and communities. CoWorking Month 2021 will be launched with an online platform showcasing the type of spaces that people can work from, as well as offering a small grant to … Read More

Give Your Business A Boost & More Flexibility

John DaviesBusiness Articles

You are not alone if you find working from home, and running your business from home, to be a real challenge. We have been listening to our business community- employers and employees alike- and the consensus of opinion is that it’s a bit like the Marmite story: there are those that love it and those that really don’t! Read on … Read More

The Spring Bookshelf 2021

Katherine PeachCulture, Featured, Penarth View Bookshelf

Fiction The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard With her husband recently murdered, Umiko Wada just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasingly uncomplicated. That is, until he takes on a new case. A case which gets him killed, and Umiko quickly realises that being a detective isn’t … Read More

Jack is Back

Katherine PeachBusiness Articles, Featured

Turning the negatives into positives has been a mantra we’ve all tried to live by this past year. And Willmore’s 1938 has done just that. After a few graffiti tags, they decided to turn this unwelcomed negative into a transformational positive. To celebrates Willmore’s rich history, a mysterious mural has been painted on the side of the building. The terraces … Read More

Accelerated Learning

Katherine PeachEducation, Featured, Kids, To export

Westbourne has supported students both academically and personally at the highest level throughout lockdown and now during their return to the physical classroom. The school extended the spring term for all Prep School students to allow its youngest learners extra time to re-establish social bonds back in the physical classroom, and implemented a number of additional initiatives to encourage pupils … Read More

Alcohol: Friend or Foe?

Rosie OrettiFeatured, To export, Wellbeing

As a nation, how have we coped with the ramifications of lockdown? Financial difficulties, limitations on our social lives, social isolation, bereavement, ill health, health service disruption, uncertainty and anxiety about the future. No wonder the conversation has turned to how much alcohol we are drinking. People in the UK are drinking differently as a result of lockdown. There are … Read More

The Power of No

Will SummersFeatured, To export, Wellbeing

No, Na, Nac Ydw, Nadda, Nope. What does ‘no’ mean to you? It may bring back childhood memories of your parents teaching you right from wrong (or in my case, stop eating all of Nan’s sweets). It may speak to your own parental instinct to assert boundaries for your kids. It could be embroiled with guilt, rejection or a simple … Read More