Unpaid carers in Caerphilly County Borough, who were in receipt of Carers Allowance on 31 March 2022, can now apply for a one-off £500 payment.

The Welsh Government payment is being made in recognition of the increased financial pressures many unpaid carers have experienced during the pandemic, and to help with some of the additional costs they have incurred. 

Alan Matthews from Pontlottyn has been announced as the second winner of Caerphilly County Borough’s Mash for Cash campaign.

The Mash for Cash campaign was launched in March 2022 in line with Food Waste Action Week with an aim to increase the number of residents currently recycling their food waste.

The campaign will see houses monitored with one food recycling participant chosen at random each month, with each winner receiving £500.

Members of the team behind Caerphilly Keys, a pioneering private sector leasing scheme, joined forces recently to raise over £1,450 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Eight members from across the Caerphilly Keys team, including officers and landlords, took part this year’s Bryn Meadows Caerphilly 10k on Sunday 15th May. 

The team selected the Motor Neurone Disease Association as its chosen charity following one of the scheme’s first landlords being recently diagnosed with the condition.

Caerphilly County Borough Council has recommenced its regular grass cutting programme in and is working hard to strike the right balance between keeping the county borough tidy, while helping to promote biodiversity.

Caerphilly Council adopted a new approach to grass cutting in 2020 which saw grass cutting kept to a minimum. Plans were developed to ‘zone’ parts of the Caerphilly county borough, with some areas continuing to receive traditional maintenance, some reduced and others will be left to achieve both ecological and bio-diversity benefits.