1. Keeping your garden pet-friendly and pest-free
Tackling stubborn garden pests can be a challenge – and even more so if you have furry friends who share your space with. Pets can easily be put at risk if you use pesticides as they can pick them up on their paws and fur when they dig, roll or even run in the garden, which can then be ingested when they groom themselves. But there are ways that you can keep your garden pest-free and your pets safe! As part of our PestSmart campaign with Welsh Water, we worked with S4C TV gardener, Naomi Saunders, on an advertorial with Wales Online sharing some of her favourite pet-friendly ways of keeping pests at bay – read the article on Wales Online and visit www.pestsmart.wales for more helpful tips and tricks.
2. Promoting overseas market visits for future exporters
For any Welsh companies thinking of exporting, a great option is to attend one of the Welsh Government’s international market visits, where businesses have the opportunity to meet with potential customers and distributors overseas. In the run-up to the next visits to Spain and Sweden/Denmark, we created films to raise awareness and encourage potential attendees to sign up.
3. Carmarthenshire by Coast
From an awe-inspiring 12th century castle and a national garden to quaint market towns and Wales’ longest beach, Carmarthenshire boasts an array of beautiful landscapes and fun activities to explore. And that’s exactly what the editor of Coast magazine, Andy Cooper, did earlier this year. We organised a long weekend trip for Andy to visit the county of Carmarthenshire, experiencing the Tywi Estuary by boat, the famous Dylan Thomas Boathouse and learning how to forage on Pendine Sands. The trip resulted in a 6-page spread in the August edition of the Coast magazine, keep an eye out for it.
4. Minding our mental health
We’ve been supporting Mind Cymru by creating a bank of materials to help their 16 Welsh teams mark local Mind Week 2024.Our messaging workshops produced new and compelling narratives to ensure more people know that local Mind volunteers are there to offer community-based support, wherever and whenever they need it. We created digital toolkits to help local Minds teams spread their message far and wide. Our bilingual films demonstrate how dependent local Minds are on vital volunteers and on urgent funding, to continue the fight for mental health and a rising demand for support. We secured coverage on Nation Cymru and have more lined up over the weekend, with broadcast interviews to follow next week.
5. Working Word stepping at Eisteddfod
A few members of the team are at the Eisteddfod all week long to help support our clients and share in the festivities. The National Eisteddfod is the largest cultural festival in Europe and is held in a different part of Wales every year. This year it’s at Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd until the 10 August. If you spot us come say hello!
