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Important Notice

Final Carers Gateway Statement / Care Collective Closure

Older People’s Commissioner – Abuse Support Services Directory

CAVAMH Small Grants for Small Groups

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare decision making – CEDAR Survey

ADHD Community Group

cavamh AGM 2024 Plus Notice

Celebration of Welsh-Asian Heritage

Mental Health Forum Workshop – Social Prescribing and Mental Health

Stress Control Course – Cardiff Mind

ACT-ion for Living – Free Course by Cardiff Mind

One World Choir – Walking Event

Cardiff and Vale College – Open Days

ADHD Awareness Month 2024

World Mental Health Day – cavamh Events

Cardiff and Vale Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Strategy Refresh Workshop

Tea & Talk for World Mental Health Day

Digital Decade Exhibition

New guide to help reduce the risk of dementia

Fun and Friendship (Activity) Group

Join Us For World Mental Health Day 2024!

World Alzheimer’s Month 2024

Making New Maps 7th – 10th October 2024

Cardiff and Vale Unpaid Carers Assembly October 2nd 2024

CAVC Late Advice & Enrolment Sessions

Prop Blue Tie Ball 2024

World Alzheimer’s Month 2024

How to avoid burnout with Hazel Carter – Carers Wales

We need your help – Bipolar UK

Unpaid Carer’s Lunch

Lets Get Physical – Aug 30th

Pobl Summer Event Aug 28th

Children and Young People Strategic Plan – Engagement Event

Gwahoddiad Astudio: Canfyddiad Dementia / Study Invitation: Dementia Perception

Never Give Up Day 2024

The Power Up Project

Barnardos New Youth Engagement Wellbeing Service!

MHF Children and Young People’s Interest Group – Online Link Up

Cycle to Work Day

Live Q&A – Bipolar UK

Don’t Stress About What’s Next – GCSEs

Heart of Help

Samaritans Awareness Day 2024

CAMHS experiences – research survey

Free Craft session spaces- Power-Up

Wonderfest Cardiff!

Mental Health Assessment Survey

Wellbeing Walk for Wales Nature Week – Wild Rhythm

Small Charity Week

Soup and a Slice – Unpaid Carer Group Sessions

Breaking the Silence; Loss and Grief – Free event

Learning Disability Week 2024

Autism Hidden Voices Now Hosting Drama Therapy Sessions

MHF Workshop – Mental Health Community Review with Dan Crossland

Free Wellbeing Event – Cardiff

Open Evenings @CAVC

International Men’s Health Week

Carers Week 2024

Cream Tea for Unpaid Carers

Could home care for mum & dad make life better for your family?

Share Your Experience of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Explore 4 week summer programme – Prince’s Trust

Hug Your Cat Day – Helping Mental Health

It’s National Walking Month!

Big Asthma Bake Sale 2024

Managing Health Stress & Wellbeing at Work – Recovery and Wellbeing College

Dementia Friendly Festival – Vale

Dementia Friendly Festival – Cardiff

Living With Uncertainty Course – Recovery and Wellbeing College

Wellbeing Walk – Cardiff Mind

GLOW Yoga Session – Cardiff Mind

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board light it blue for Parkinson’s awareness

Moving More for Mental Health – Cardiff Event

Moving More for Mental Health – Barry Event

Unpaid Carers Event – The Vale

Volunteer Drop in Session

Cardiff Half Marathon Spaces Available – Welsh Women’s Aid

Youth Summer Volunteering Programme

What’s Out There?? – Recovery Cymru

Families first Vale Networking Event

New Course from 4 Winds – Managing your emotions

MHF Young Carers – Tender Opportunity

Advice & Advocacy service

Warm Hubs – Women Connect First

David’s Day Tea Party – Dementia Hub

Exploring Digital – Cardiff Youth Service

NEW Peer Skills Training – Recovery and Wellbeing College

Mental Health Forum Meeting: ‘Vision for 3rd Sector Services’

EmpowerMind – Older people’s mental health event

Half term activities – Cardiff

Mark Collard Radio Performance – Thursday 1st February

Tell us your views and webinar – General Pharmaceutical Council

Time to Talk Day – 01/02/24

Women Connect First Warm Hubs

Cardiff Volunteer Drop-in Session – cymraeg

Cardiff Volunteer Drop-in Session

Local Food Banks – Mind in the Vale of Glamorgan

Men and Mental Health Workshop

Service Evaluation – Mental Health, Vale of Glamorgan

Insight into Place2Be – online session

Alcohol Free Six Nations 2024

Mental Health Forum Training Programme Jan-Feb 2024

Small steps, big changes: meeting youth mental health needs

Future Leaders 2024 Programme launch

Who Does What Where in Mental Health

Coffee with CUBE

Festive quiz and Year’s Resolutions Workshop!

Sexual Violence Awareness Webinar

Understanding Mental Health: A relational approach and reflective practice

Have you or someone close to you been diagnosed with cancer?

Intentional Peer Support Core training

Caerdydd sy’n Dda i Bobl Hŷn – Rhagfyr 2023

Age Friendly Cardiff – December News 2023

Mental Health Service Evaluation

Christmas Warm Space, Nov 30th – Poble Housing Support

cavamh AGM

ThisPlace Event – 30th November

Understanding Depression – Online Sessions

Care and Treatment Plan Survey – Cardiff and Vale UHB – Recovery and Wellbeing College

Rheoli Straen, Iechyd a Lles yn y Gwaith / Managing Stress, Health, & Wellbeing at Work

I Just Can’t Sleep – Cardiff and Vale UHB – Recovery and Wellbeing College

WAHWN December Network Meeting

Digwyddiad Lansio: Fframwaith Cenedlaethol ar gyfer Presgripsiwn Cymdeithasol (NFfSP) yng Nghymru

Launch Event: National Framework for Social Prescribing (NFfSP) in Wales

Side by Side Men’s Suicide Prevention Discovery Workshop in Cardiff

OCHR YN OCHR – Gweithdy Darganfyddiad Atal lled Cymru 2023

Re-thinking Burnout

Be A Santa Campaign!

bigmoose life stories – theme men’s mental health

Men’s Mental Health Month 2023

Addiction Awareness Webinar – November 9th

Coming Home: Sharing Veterans’ Mental Health Stories

Older People’s Experiences of Digital Exclusion

Cardiff and Vale Unpaid Carers Assembly 2023

Supporting minoritised ethnic communities across Wales with grief and bereavement

Introduction to open dialogue online training 24th & 25th October

World Mental Health Day Poetry by Will Ford

Womens Walking Group Cardiff

Neurodiversity in the Workplace Wales Conference

9th November – Cymorth Cymru Homelessness Symposium

Working on Wellbeing – pre-employment group training course

Understanding Disability Awards 16th Nov 2023

Oct 23rd 11-3pm Innovation in Dementia Showcase – UHL Day Hospital

Embracing Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Memory Cafe – Penarth

Staying Healthy in Body and Mind Sessions

Exploring relationship-centred care – support and learning workshops

Gweithdai archwilio gofal – cymorth a dysgu sy’n canolbwyntio ar gydberthnasau

Minority Ethnic Communities Health Fair 2023

Who Does What Where in Mental Health?

Living and working with the menopause – acas Digital Event

World Mental Health Day Event!

Amser, Short Breaks Scheme Wales

New free activities and support for unpaid and young carers

Moving and Handling Workshops – 26th September 2023

Four in Four, ‘Ydych chi eisiau chwarae?

‘Do you want to play?’ – Exhibition by Four in Four

4Winds Anger Management Course 12th Sept

Cardiff Council Unpaid Carers Focus Group

Grŵp Ffocws Gofalwyr Di-dâl Cyngor Caerdydd

Recovery & Wellbeing College Open Forum Event

Take Five to Age Well!

MenoPals Rhiwbina Launches 10th Oct

Llandough Over 50s Coffee Morning Social

Autistic Minds Live Show 2023

Goldies Cymru @ St. Mellons Hub

Age Connects – Wine and Cheese Tasting

Diversity and Eating Disorders Workshop

Walk Your Pup To Stop Homelessness!

Forget Me Not Chorus Events- Cardiff and Vale

Festival of Ideas: The Climate Crisis and Its Impact on Mental Health

Housing First Conference Cymorth Cymru – 22nd August

Cardiff Half Marathon 2023 – Run For A Cause!

Care’Diff support groups – Cardiff

Opening Doors To Brain Workout – 2nd Aug 2023

Free Mindfulness Workshop

Epilepsy Action Cymru Free Counselling Service

Latest exciting news from Woody’s Lodge

Twenty-four hour listening line now offering support to families living with neurodivergent conditions

NHS ‘111 press 2’

Uncertain times: Anxiety in the UK and how to tackle it

Care’Diff Carer Support Groups in Cardiff

Llais Wales

Recovery & Wellbeing College Summer 2023 Prospectus

Stand Tall

Diverse Cymru Free Counselling

The Big Help Out

NHS Wales’ George Cross

Child Poverty – GVS Want to Hear Your Thoughts

The Out of Work Service

New Guide on Older Peoples Rights In Care Homes

East Vale Community Transport Volunteers Wanted

Goldies Cymru

Ty Hapus Counselling Service

BATTLE SCARS Support and Training for Self-harm and Eating Disorders.

Supporting Mental Health Volunteers Wanted

Memory Cafe Penarth

Memory Cafe Whitchurch

National Coastwatch Volunteers Wanted

Dip Into Reading

With Music In Mind

Do you want to be part of a local service improvement in Mental Health Services?

Wellbeing & Recovery College Prospectus – Spring 2023

Winter Wellbeing Small Grants Fund

Epilepsy Talk & Support

Merry Christmas from Cardiff & Vale Carers Gateway

Try Something New – Unpaid Carers Grants (Cardiff Only)

Is working from home good for your health?

cavamh launches cost of living resources

Golau Food Project in Barry Every Wednesday

The Cube Monthly Meet up

POBL Vale One Stop Shop

Could It Be bipolar – new suite of tools

Vacancy – Mental Health Peer Co-production Development and Training Officer

Become a Dementia Friendly Ambassador Volunteer

Christmas Wellbeing

Directions Handbook 2022

The Carers Gateway

Age Friendly Cardiff Newsletter

Workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing – new resources

Unpaid Carers Leave

NHS Wales Health Collaborative – Adult Community Mental Health Services in Wales- Our Vision for the Future

National Mental Health Forum Seeks Members

British Gas Energy Trust Grants to tackle fuel poverty available

Coming Home Comic – UK Veterans Mental Health

An update for patients and the public on COVID-19

Weekly Bowls Sessions For over 60’s at Peterston Super Ely

Samaritans – Finding Your Way Guide

Warm Welcome Spaces Fund

Young Dementia Network – resources available

Home-Start Cymru call out for volunteers.

Ty Canna Mind the Gap Exercise Sessions

Health meadow at Llandough university hospital – Open Day

Accessible transport survey

Carers Wales are looking for Online Facilitator Volunteers

Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board are looking for an unpaid carer to join our Board

Welsh Ambulance Service Summer 2022 Info Burst

Forget-me-not Chorus Calon

effro carers connect group

effro community activity group

Unpaid Carers Impact Group

Marie Curie Bereavement Support

Mental health settings to become smoke-free across Wales

Wales Mental Health and Wellbeing Forum

Crisiscare Concordat Information

ACTIF (Active, Connected, Engaged)

Goodbye and Thank You from Sefyll

Goodbye and Thank You from Nexus

Emotional Wellbeing Service Reconfiguration

The Rising Cost of Living: How to Protect Your Health

Memory Cafe Penarth Reopening

Tackling loneliness in our community

Wales Carers Summit – Next Steps

Joy On The Radio -cavamh podcasts

New PTSD initiative – service user / carer representatives wanted

Memory Lane Social Club

Supporting those affected by the crisis in Ukraine

Time To Change Wales

Meic

Dementia Friendly Cardiff

The Cwtch Club

Forget Me Not Chorus

Choir With No Name – Singing For Wellbeing

Cardiff & Vale MHF Services Summary

Mental Health Forum Updates

4 Winds update

Self Injury Support survey about pre-A&E phone triage for self-harm

Pobl – Vale Housing Support Vale Drop-in

Carers Trust Wales Report – Support Not Sympathy

Gardening Ideas

Women Connect First Online Activities

Update from E-DAS

cavamh forum coming soon!

Wellbeing Advice and Information

Official Sources of Advice – Covid-19

Leaflets – How to share a diagnosis of dementia

Books prescribed to help tackle dementia – Press Release:

Help is at Hand guidance – a resource for people bereaved by suicide

Equality and Diversity Forum leaflets

Wheel of Wellbeing – short film

After The Rehearsal – Living with Dementia: A Carer’s Story

Mental Health in the Workplace

Mental Health Advocacy and Human Rights Guide