🚒 The Fire Cadets programme is a 2 year academic course that gives young people the opportunity to develop key skills through classroom delivery and practical elements on the drill ground. #InternationalYouthDay

Thank you to the Chartered Institute of Public Relations #ethicshotline - our very own Oogway I now have clarity and inner peace.

As an A-Level and degree “under-achiever” who now runs my own successful consultancy and living my best life, I’d just like to say to everyone picking up their A-level results today: Whatever the grades and however you did, you’ve got this. Breathe. You’ll be fine.

Reflecting with Amanda Coleman this afternoon on life as a crisis comms consultant, and how we see shadows leaking evening for the happy stuff. We’re like the PR version of the kid from The Sixth Sense.

🚒🏔️ On the 5th of September, members of #TeamSouthWales will be conquering 10 climbs of Pen Y Fan, raising money for @Firefighters999 and Tŷ Hafan. To support the team, visit 👇 🔗 bit.ly/PenYFanClimb24

John Wilkinson I bombed in my 'best' A level too and worked for a year to take it again. Didn't stop me becoming a Professor.

Media Training? Crisis Comms Prep? I have availability during Sept and Oct if you are looking to brush up your interview technique, presentation practice, or are about to face a good grilling. Drop me a DM, and let’s talk about what you’ve got going on. ( and please share 😊)

Come on PR peeps in Wales. Let’s be having your entries for the CIPR Cymru PR Awards. Our judges at CIPR Scotland are all lined up and can’t wait to see what the communicators of Wales have been up to. Deadline extended to 6 September - no additional late entry surcharge. 👍

Applications have now closed for the new Head of Comms and Engagement at South Wales Fire and Rescue Service. Good luck to any of my network who have put themselves forward for this exciting but challenging role.

Calling all CIPR Cymru chums in Wales: Check out our last newsletter for a link to pick a time of day for the AGM and network event on 2 October. It’s hybrid, with the in-person event in Cardiff, and “After Work” is winning. Have you say? Oh, and I’ve lined up a fab speaker

We’ve joined forces with PolicyMogul to write to all MPs with our updated guidance on professional lobbying. And we’ve sent all MPs a poster outlining the behaviours they should expect from professional lobbyists. Learn more: bit.ly/3T7RXTn

Pleased to welcome good friends and fab speakers Tim Rutter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌼 (Tata Steel) and Ali Goldsworthy (Cambridge / Stanford Unis) to the CIPR Cymru AGM (2 Oct, 5pm) to speak on polarisation, mis- and dis-info, skewed narrative, and being believed. Details soon at cipr.cymru

“Build it and they will come,” they said Entries for the CIPR Cymru PR Awards 2024 close on Friday 6 September. I’m not saying you lot are leaving your entries to the last minute but … 😳 #cuttingitfine

⏰ Entry deadline noon on Friday ⏰ You’ve got just a few days to submit your entries for our fabulous awards celebrating the best comms and PR in Wales. Categories, criteria and how to enter👇 ciprawards.cymru

On Saturday, 10am-3pm our Emergency Services colleagues are putting on a day packed with demonstrations and fun activities for the whole family at Cardiff Bay. Organised by the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service with Welsh Ambulance, South Wales Police. #999Day 📍 At Roald Dahl Plass, Cardiff Bay

Today’s the day. Come on PRs in Cymru - best foot forward.

Bereavement by suicide devastates families, friends & whole communities. So pleased to see this Wales wide suicide bereavement service launched & proud to have played a part in driving this work, which is so close to my heart, forward. #WSPD24 #SuicidePrevention

Rachel Day, a beautiful young woman with an infectious personality, was diagnosed with sepsis and died just 10 days later at the age of 29. Her heartbroken parents have spent each day since raising awareness of #sepsis which causes more deaths than cancer orlo.uk/J4zHm

🫵 Calling all PR and comms Chartered Institute of Public Relations members in Wales: We need you to volunteer with the CIPR Cymru committee or even become the Group Chair. Here’s how: ☝️Fill out the nomination form ✌️Tell us in <200 words why you’d be fab 🤟Send it in by 20 Sept 📬 DM for info

Join us at University Hospital of Wales for our #WorldPatientSafety Day Marketplace event! The event is in the foyer outside the lecture theatres (this can be accessed through Y Gegin or via the entrance opposite the Dental School). Here till 2pm refreshments will be available.