“Projecting Positive Newport” is a 6-month pilot by Newport City Radio to spotlight positive people and stories across the city. A part-time coordinator will lead social, web, podcast, and radio content, reviving Port-Hour on Instagram. The goal: build local pride, visibility, and a sustainable platform for grassroots voices.
Led by a team of highly-trained musicians, our weekly singing sessions energise, engage, and empower those with dementia and those who love and care for them. It’s so much more than simply singing old songs, or bringing back memories. We commission and perform new pieces that celebrate our choristers and share their experiences with the wider community. It's about creating new memories, enjoying new experiences, and celebrating life in the moment.
Our Girls into STEM programme of events aim to encourage female pupils to take an active interest in STEM subjects prior to their GCSE subject choices. Pupils meet employees who discuss their background and roles within the company, have a tour of the site, and the day involves a practical activity. They will be encouraged to relate their observations to their school subjects, particularly STEM, and discuss how their choice of GCSE subjects will influence their own possible career path.
Introduction to Engineering and Manufacturing workshops will be delivered to young people in secondary schools to develop work-related skills for careers in the STEM sector in Wales. Our activities include exciting and challenging practical engineering sessions aimed at Key Stage 3 pupils to contextualise the application and development of employability STEM skills. These i2EM workshops provide a stepping stone at KS3 for pupils to gain experience in STEM prior to their GCSE subject choices.
25th Anniversary of the Football Club servicing St Julians, Shaftesbury, Riverside, Maindee, Crindau, and City Centre areas of Newport predominantly. A match, games, and training and fund activities with local police, services, community members the football club and local families will take place on the day with the aim of celebrating 25 years of the club in the community, and its plans for growth in the future.
We are breaking the cycle of poverty by giving our most vulnerable community members a safe place to come, meet others, improve their wellbeing and build positive independent lives, free from poverty, isolation and lack of opportunity. Through the joy of gardening, hobbies, and the chance to spend time with other community members having a warm meal or hot drink together, individuals will be able to come together and tackle barriers they are facing such as homelessness in a positive environment
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