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Adferiad – Unpaid Carer Group
A monthly carers’ group enables opportunities for carers living in the Vale, to connect and gain mutual support.
The next Meeting will be held on 16 April 2025 between 11am to 1pm, at Bridge Between Community Centre, Heol y Llongau, Barry CF63 4AT.
The carers group is available to any unpaid carer providing support to someone with a mental health illness. Light refreshments are provided, and all are welcome.
For more information call: 07597 579 005
In April, our guest speaker, Jane Trezise, will be giving a general overview of Carers Wales as well as information regarding their online support, Me Time Sessions and postcard art exhibition.
The postcard art exhibition is to show what life is like for an unpaid carer in Wales. It is tied to the 60th anniversary of Carers UK as a charity.
If you’d like to take part or find out more, please click the link:
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Spring into action with Carers Active April 2025
The month-long campaign aims to raise awareness of the importance of physical activity for carers and highlight the benefits of moving more. Carers often face a challenging time, and see their own health and wellbeing impacted by their caring responsibilities.
Getting Started guide
There’s no need to be the fastest, strongest, or last the longest. It’s about making you feel good and helping you build activity into your routine. Check out this handy Getting Started guide to help.
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Carers Wales have one Carers Active session that you can join in April:
Adapted Tai Chi and Mindful Movements with Sandra - Wednesday 16 April, 3-4pm
A Tai Chi and gentle movements session with Sandra Shaw, a Clinical Exercise Specialist. Join Sandra, who will demonstrate simple movements designed to improve mobility, balance and a general sense of wellbeing. No experience is needed and the session is open to all fitness levels.
Carers Active online session
You can also exercise on your own schedule using the recordings from our previous Carers Active online sessions, available.
Carers Active Hub
Visit the Carers Active Hub to discover a range of useful resources such as:
- Bitesize activity and wellbeing video workouts to help carers be active at a time that’s convenient.
- Recordings of Carers UK’s online physical activity sessions, including Latin dance, seated martial arts, and stretch and tone.
- Inspiration for carers and tips for getting started, plus activity ideas and resources.
- Carers’ stories of getting active while caring.
- Everyone Active Offer - If you feel more comfortable getting active from home, why not try the Everyone on Demand app, which can help with home workouts.
The Carer’s Leave Act One Year On
The Carers Leave Act which came into effect on the 6th April 2024 and provides all employees with a new right to carer’s leave.
The Act gives unpaid carers in employment up to five days’ of unpaid leave to help them juggle their caring role with paid work. It was hard-won and is a step in the right direction, toward paid carer's leave, which is the best way to support carers in the workplace.
Despite being around for a year now, many carers in employment are not aware of, or able to, take advantage of these new rights. So, if you know somebody balancing paid work and care, let them know!
To mark the anniversary of the Act's implementation, we've drawn carers' experiences with unpaid leave and flexible working into a short report, which you can read here:
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Advance Notice - Carers’ Week 9 -15 June 2025
Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK. It also helps people who don't think of themselves as having caring responsibilities to identify as carers and access much-needed support.
The theme for Carers Week 2025 is 'Caring About Equality', calling for an equal society where carers are truly valued, recognised and supported.
Each day of Carers’ Week will have a specific focus and highlight the different ways inequality impacts carers' lives:
- Monday: Health and social care
- Tuesday: Financial wellbeing
- Wednesday: Work and employment
- Thursday: Younger carers
- Friday: Older carers
- Saturday: Mental health and wellbeing
- Sunday: Reflections on Carers Week
Carers Week provides a vital opportunity to raise awareness of the challenges facing carers and to connect more carers to available support. There will be plenty of ways to get involved in the lead up to Carers Week - or by participating in the hundreds of events and activities that will be promoted throughout the UK and online during the week itself.
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The first Llantwit Major Dementia Open Day
Dementia Friendly Llantwit Major Open Day taking place on Saturday 12th April from 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. in the Llantonian Hall, Boverton Road, Llantwit Major CF61 1TF.
Jane Hutt MS, Rhian Bowen-Davies the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales and Mayor Councillor Peter Dickson will be in attendance and the event is free and open to all.
For further information and enquiries please contact David Ellis by emailing Cllr.DEllis@llantwitmajortowncouncil.gov.uk
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Valeways Countryside Access & Walking
Formed in April 1996, Valeways is a unique voluntary environmental organisation that supports a diverse range of volunteers to re-open and promote the Vale of Glamorgan's glorious countryside.
Valeways main activities are:
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Protecting and maintaining public rights of ways in the Vale of Glamorgan
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Promoting the health and social benefits of walking through our website, social media and waymarked self-guided walks
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Providing an ongoing programme of volunteer-led walks at different levels and an annual walking festival
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Adferiad – Grŵp Gofalwyr Di-dâl
Grŵp gofalwyr yn cwrdd yn fisol i greu cyfleoedd i ofalwyr sy'n byw yn y Fro ymgysylltu a chefnogi ei gilydd.
Y Cynhelir y Cyfarfod nesaf ar 16th Ebrill 2025 rhwng 11am ac 1pm, yng Nghanolfan Gymunedol The Bridge Between, Heol y Llongau, Y Barri CF63 4AT.
Mae’r grŵp gofalwyr ar gael i bob gofalwr di-dâl sy'n rhoi cymorth i rywun sydd â salwch iechyd meddwl. Croeso i bawb a bydd lluniaeth ysgafn ar gael.
Ffoniwch 07597 579005 i gael rhagor o wybodaeth
Ym mis Ebrill, bydd ein siaradwr gwadd, Jane Trezise, yn rhoi trosolwg cyffredinol o Gofalwyr Cymru yn ogystal â gwybodaeth am eu cymorth ar-lein, Sesiynau Me Time ac arddangosfa gelf cardiau post. Diben yr arddangosfa gelf cardiau post yw dangos sut beth yw bywyd gofalwr di-dâl yng Nghymru. Mae'n gysylltiedig â dathlu 60 mlynedd ers sefydlu Carers UK fel elusen.
Os hoffech chi gymryd rhan neu ddarganfod mwy, cliciwch ar y ddolen:
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Bwrwch ati’r gwanwyn hwn gyda Gofalwyr Egnïol Ebrill 2025
Canllaw Dechrau Arni
Does dim angen i chi fod y cyflymaf, y cryfaf na phara’r hiraf. Mae'n ymwneud â theimlo'n dda a'ch helpu i gynnwys ymarfer corff yn eich trefn bob dydd. Cymerwch olwg ar y canllaw defnyddiol hwn i helpu.
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Mae gan Ofalwyr Cymru un sesiwn Gofalwyr Egnïol y gallwch ymuno â hi ym mis Ebrill:
Tai Chi a Symudiadau Ymwybodol wedi’i addasu gyda Sandra - Dydd Mercher 16 Ebrill, 3-4pm
Sesiwn Tai Chi a symudiadau ysgafn gyda Sandra Shaw, Arbenigwr Ymarfer Corff Clinigol. Ymunwch â Sandra, a fydd yn arddangos symudiadau syml sydd wedi'u cynllunio i wella symudedd, cydbwysedd ac ymdeimlad cyffredinol o les. Does dim angen unrhyw brofiad blaenorol ac mae'r sesiwn yn agored i bob lefel ffitrwydd.
Sesiwn Gofalwyr Egnïol ar-lein
Gallwch hefyd wneud ymarfer corff pan mae’n gyfleus i chi gan ddefnyddio'r recordiadau o'n sesiynau Gofalwyr Egnïol ar-lein blaenorol.
Hyb Gofalwyr Egnïol
Ewch i'r Hyb Gofalwyr Egnïol i gael gafael ar ystod o adnoddau defnyddiol megis:
- Fideos ymarfer corff a lles byr i helpu gofalwyr i fod yn actif ar adeg sy'n gyfleus iddyn nhw.
- Recordiadau o sesiynau gweithgarwch corfforol ar-lein Carers UK, gan gynnwys dawns Ladinaidd, crefft ymladd wrth eistedd, ac ymestyn a thynhau.
- Ysbrydoliaeth i ofalwyr ac awgrymiadau ar gyfer dechrau arni, ynghyd ag adnoddau a syniadau ar gyfer gweithgareddau.
- Straeon gofalwyr am gadw’n actif tra'n gofalu.
- Cynnig Actif Everyone - Os ydych chi'n teimlo'n fwy cyfforddus yn gwneud ymarfer corff gartref, beth am roi cynnig ar yr ap Everyone on Demand, a all helpu gyda gweithgareddau gartref.
Deddf Absenoldeb Gofalwr Flwyddyn Ar Dôl
Y Ddeddf Absenoldeb i Ofalwyr a ddaeth i rym ar 6 Ebrill 2024 ac sy’n rhoi hawl newydd i bob gweithiwr i absenoldeb gofalwr.
Mae’r Ddeddf yn rhoi hyd at pimp diwrnod o absenoldeb di-dâl i ofalwyr di-dâl mewn cyflogaeth i’w helpu i jyglo eu rôl ofalu â gwaith â thâl. Roedd wedi’i ennill yn galed ac mae’n gam i’r cyfeiriad cywir, tuag at absenoldeb gofalwyr â thâl, sef y ffordd orau o gefnogi gofalwyr yn y gweithle.
Er eu bod o gwmpas ers blwyddyn bellach, nid yw llawer o ofalwyr mewn cyflogaeth yn ymwybodol o’r hawliau newydd hyn nac yn gallu manteisio arnynt. Felly, os ydych chi'n adnabod rhywun sy'n cydbwyso gwaith cyflogedig a gofal, rhowch wybod iddynt!
I nodi pen-blwydd gweithredu’r Ddeddf, rydym wedi tynnu profiadau gofalwyr gydag absenoldeb di-dâl a gweithio hyblyg mewn adroddiad byr, y gallwch ei ddarllen yma:
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Rhybudd ymlaen llaw - Wythnos Gofalwyr 9 -15 Mehefin 2025
Mae’r Wythnos Gofalwyr yn ymgyrch flynyddol i godi ymwybyddiaeth o ofalu, tynnu sylw at yr heriau y mae gofalwyr di-dal yn eu hwynebu a chydnabod eu cyfraniad at deuluoedd a chymunedau ledled y DU. Mae hefyd yn helpu pobl nad ydynt yn ystyried eu hunain yn bobl sydd â chyfrifoldebau gofalu i uniaethu fel gofalwyr a chael gafael ar gymorth y mae mawr ei angen.
Mae Wythnos Gofalwyr eleni yn rhoi sylw i gydraddoldeb ym maes gofalu, gan alw am gymdeithas gyfartal lle mae gofalwyr yn cael eu gwerthfawrogi, eu cydnabod a'u cefnogi.
Bydd ffocws penodol i bob diwrnod o’r Wythnos Gofalwyr i dynnu sylw at y gwahanol ffyrdd y mae anghydraddoldeb yn effeithio ar fywydau gofalwyr:
- Dydd Llun: Iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol
- Dydd Mawrth: Lles ariannol
- Dydd Mercher: Gwaith a chyflogaeth
- Dydd Iau: Gofalwyr iau
- Dydd Gwener: Gofalwyr hŷn
- Dydd Sadwrn: Iechyd meddwl a lles
- Dydd Sul: Myfyrio ar Wythnos Gofalwyr
Mae Wythnos Gofalwyr yn gyfle hanfodol i godi ymwybyddiaeth o'r heriau sy'n wynebu gofalwyr ac i gysylltu mwy o ofalwyr â'r cymorth sydd ar gael. Bydd digon o gyfle i gymryd rhan yn y cyfnod cyn Wythnos Gofalwyr - neu drwy gymryd rhan yn y cannoedd o ddigwyddiadau a gweithgareddau a fydd yn cael eu hyrwyddo ledled y DU ac ar-lein yn ystod yr wythnos ei hun.
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Diwrnod Agored Dementia cyntaf Llanilltud Fawr
Cynhelir Diwrnod Agored Llanilltud Fawr Dementia Gyfeillgar ddydd Sadwrn 12 Ebrill rhwng 10.00am a 2.00pm yn Neuadd Llantonian, Boverton Road, Llanilltud Fawr CF61 1TF.
Bydd Jane Hutt AS, Rhian Bowen-Davies, Comisiynydd Pobl Hŷn Cymru a'r Maer, y Cynghorydd Peter Dickson, yn bresennol ac mae'r digwyddiad am ddim ac yn agored i bawb.
Am ragor o wybodaeth ac i wneud ymholiad, cysylltwch â David Ellis drwy e-bostio Cllr.DEllis@llantwitmajortowncouncil.gov.uk
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