Staff members of the CLIC team supported the Torfaen Youth Service residential that was held in February at the Urdd in Cardiff Bay. The excited young people visited the ProMo-Cymru offices and met with the CLIC design team on the morning they arrived. Later that evening, our staff gave an overview of CLIC, got the …
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November TheSprout was invited to hold November’s Sprout Editorial Group meeting in Literature Wales’ pop up literature lounge in St David’s 2. Beforehand there was a special workshop put on for members of the group to learn about review writing from the editors of two local publications. It was a great session with lots of …
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Red Button is launching a Christmas marketing campaign offering information and advice on drugs and alcohol to under-18s over the festive period. Keep an eye out for the posters, which will be displayed throughout Cardiff and on the inside of buses.

Staff from ProMo and CLIC (particularly its Cardiff site theSprout) have been attending the Cardiff Bloggers Meetups and Social Media Surgeries since they were started in March 2010 by Hannah Waldram of Guardian Cardiff and Ed Walker of yourCardiff. But when Ed and Hannah recently announced they were leaving Cardiff for the bright lights of …
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In partnership with the Cardiff Children and Young Peoples Partnership we successfully appointed Arielle Tye as theSprout Editorial Coordinator. Based in Cardiff, Arielle is bringing her experience as a youth worker and background in  media to take things forward with the thriving website. Building upon the hard work of the previous Coordinator Ryan Heeger, Arielle …
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Based in Cardiff Mandeep has been appointed to develop the online and offline marketing strategies for ProMo-Cymru. Mandeep has experience of managing several small businesses and has worked as an IT Administrator, IT Trainer, a Virtual Learning Environment Developer and as an Academic Researcher. While working as a Researcher at Cardiff University, Mandeep appeared on BBC1, …
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Gavin Thomas, based in Cardiff has recently joined the ProMo team as the Helplines Project Coordinator. His role is to oversee the new all Wales helpline for children and young people (aged 0-25). Gavin has several years of experience working with young people as a careers adviser in youth organisations, schools and colleges. He is passionate …
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Ryan Walsh is another new member to the team, appointed as our Finance and Admin Assistant, based in the Cardiff offices. Having developed an interest in accounts when he did a course in IT, Business and Welsh Baccalaureate in College, Ryan went on to get an Accountancy degree at UWIC. Ryan worked for a local …
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We are currently recruiting for theSprout Editorial Coordinator to work directly with young people producing content for theSprout website. Liaising with statutory/voluntary youth organisations, organising and carrying out workshop activities, with a focus on harder to reach or marginalised groups of young people, the post-holder will be responsible for co-ordinating the Youth Editorial Group. For …
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Meet Pat, our new Companies Administrator. Here, she tells us a bit about herself and her first impressions: “I have worked in this sector for a long time and was involved with ProMo-Cymru from it’s very first days at the S Wales Co-operative development Association where I was the administrator. I then went on to …
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