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CYFLE CYMRU’S successful Peer Mentoring Academy is to be presented with a special award by Princess Anne.  The Academy is one of only 48 training initiatives to receive the Princess Royal Training Award – which recognises outstanding workplace learning – throughout the UK this year. The scheme offers a practical mix of on-the-job training and formal qualifications, and is available to all mentors working on the [.....]

DOZENS OF VOLUNTEERS from the biggest mentoring and employability project in Wales will clear plastics from beaches and waterways across the country this June. The nationwide coordinated effort will remove pollutants and rubbish from some of our most treasured beauty spots during the annual Volunteers’ Week celebration. All of those taking part are in recovery from substance misuse and mental health [.....]

WREXHAM VOLUNTEERS, with experience of substance misuse and poor mental health, are giving back to the community and helping others in need. Volunteers have been working alongside the non-profit furniture reuse organisation New 2 You to clean, fix and organise donated furniture. Household items are then re-sold at a low cost to local community members, or donated in the form of ‘start-up packages’ to the [.....]

Residents at a Wrexham sheltered housing complex are enjoying a new fruit and vegetable garden thanks to the efforts of Cyfle Cymru volunteers. The group worked in scorching sunshine to dig and sow a new vegetable plot for residents of the Springfield Sheltered Housing Unit in Rhosddu. Tenants are hoping for a bumper harvest after the group lifted turf, dug over topsoil and planted crops in the new [.....]

FLINTSHIRE RANGERS team up with Cyfle Cymru volunteers to help Buckley bloom. Twice a month, Cyfle Cymru and Kaleidoscope North Wales volunteers unite to complete garden and maintenance tasks at a former industrial site on Globe Way in Buckley. Participants have helped to create pedestrian footpaths leading to the pond, cleared weeded areas to sew wild flowers in their places, and levelled out grass [.....]

MORE THAN A HUNDRED people celebrated recovery and the success of the Cyfle Cymru peer mentoring programme at a special fun day and barbeque. Dozens of participants from across North Wales joined residents and staff of the Bryn y Wal supported housing project in Rhuddlan to enjoy a day of food, music, sport and activities. Together members of the group were able to enjoy far-reaching views of the Vale of Clwyd [.....]

VOLUNTEERS FROM Cyfle Cymru have gone out on a limb to cut back forest overgrowth at Erddig near Wrexham. Just a few short months ago, National Trust rangers couldn’t see the wood for the trees – but, with the help of participants from the peer mentoring project, flora and fauna are now being given new light and new room to grow. Twice a month, Cyfle Cymru volunteers join the team at Erddig to help with the [.....]

VOLUNTEERS FROM Cyfle Cymru dug deep to help the Welsh Mountain Zoo prepare their playgrounds for the half-term rush. Participants from the recovery and employability programme shovelled barrowlands of bark to ensure a soft landing for children at the Colwyn Bay attraction's play areas ahead of the school holidays. Each fortnight, a team of Cyfle Cymru volunteers join Welsh Mountain Zoo staff to complete [.....]

How do we work with older adults with substance misuse? Alongside an ageing population we are seeing an increase in alcohol consumption in the over-50s age group, coupled with the use of prescribed medication and illicit drug use. Older adults who have substance misuse problems do not receive the same attention as younger substance misusers, and generic services are increasingly having to deal with individuals [.....]