1) Old Timers Keep-Fit and Walking Football
Old timers keep fit and walking football group is a community led keep fit and walking football initiative in Newport is designed primarily for older adults, while remaining inclusive and welcoming to participants of all ages and abilities. The group aims to create accessible opportunities for older people to engage in regular physical activity, supporting improved mobility, cardiovascular health and overall wellbeing.
2) Ospreys Wheelchair Rugby Club
Ospreys Wheelchair Rugby Club was set up in 1989 by people who loved the game and wanted to create sporting and rehabilitation opportunities for people with a disability in South Wales. The club is run by volunteers, parents and ex-players. Through providing weekly training facilities Ospreys helps the rehabilitation of disabled people physically, mentally and socially through sport by giving them opportunity to take part in wheelchair rugby where they meet friends, build confidence and learn a whole set of new skills.
3) Seren Dwr Slalom Canoe Club
Seren Dŵr is a volunteer-led competition paddlesports club based at Cardiff International Whitewater. Our aim is to provide inclusive, structured, and progressive opportunities in paddlesport that improve physical wellbeing, build confidence, and create strong community connections.
4) South Riverside Community Development Centre (SRCDC)
SRCDC is an independent, multi-cultural community development charity that works to alleviate deprivation and social exclusion in South Riverside, Grangetown, Canton and surrounding areas in Cardiff. Its purpose and overall aims are to: 1) foster the empowerment of individuals and groups by facilitating involvement in issues that affect their lives, developing skills and supporting community organisation; 2) ensure access to services, facilities, and opportunities necessary for social and economic development, health and well-being; 3) develop strong cross-cultural relationships which recognise, value, and celebrate the multicultural makeup of our community.
5) Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice
Tŷ Hafan is a children’s hospice, which exists to provide paediatric palliative care and hospice support services for children and young people with life-shortening conditions and their families in Wales. Children and young people are described as living with a life-shortening condition if they are not expected to live beyond 18 years of age. Although Tŷ Hafan’s hospice building is based in the Vale of Glamorgan, our support extends far beyond its walls. We work with families in South, West, and Mid Wales, ensuring that compassionate, specialist care is accessible wherever it is needed.
6) Wales Air Ambulance
Wales Air Ambulance delivers advanced lifesaving medical care to people across Wales 24/7. We are the only air ambulance charity, based in, and dedicated to, the people of Wales and rely entirely on charitable donations to raise £13 million every year to keep our helicopters in the air and fleet of rapid response vehicles on the road.
7) Whitchurch-Heath Cricket Club
Whitchurch-Heath Cricket Club are a community orientated sports club based in Whitchurch, North Cardiff. The Club consists of four Senior sides on Saturdays which play in the South East Wales Cricket League, a Women’s softball side in the South Wales Womens Cricket League and Junior sides which play in the Cardiff & Vale Junior League. The Club also takes part in the England & Wales Cricket Board’s All Stars & Dynamos initiatives to help get young children to start playing cricket- where we coach over 120 children every week.