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19.08.2022
Intrepid Ian, 84, scales the heights for Tŷ Hafan
Last week, on one of the hottest days of the year, veteran charity fundraiser Ian Waddell successfully climbed a 701-metre high mountain in Abergavenny. Despite suffering from severe osteoarthritis, and all the challenges posed by the incredibly hot weather, 84-year-old...
29.07.2022
London Welsh RFC raise £6,000 for Tŷ Hafan
Hundreds of children, parents and grandparents from London Welsh Mini and Youth squads have recently taken part in a virtual event to walk, run, cycle and swim to raise money for Tŷ Hafan children’s hospice. With the youngest participant aged...
23.07.2022
“I took on the Taff Trail Cycle Challenge for Tŷ Hafan and now you can too”
“When you have your first child you think everything is going to be rosy,” said Andrew, from Cardiff. “And for the first few weeks everything seemed fine with Oscar. But as he developed, he wasn’t meeting his milestones and as...
15.07.2022
‘Regal’ fundraising at Glastonbury
Founded in 2005, King’s InterHigh, is an independent British international online school offering access to live and recorded lessons from anywhere in the world for primary, secondary and sixth Form students. The colleagues who work for the school based in...
01.07.2022
‘This is the hardest thing I have ever done’
You can find out more about the challenge the team have set themselves here: 5in55.co.uk/meet-the-participants We’ve been following their progress on our social media feeds and here are just a few additional photos they’ve taken along the way: Setting off...
24.06.2022
“We’ll be suffering for 55 hours, our children go through so much more”. Tŷ Hafan dad Matt shares his thoughts on the 10nTaff
By day, Matt Evans from Swansea, is a vehicles trainer for the DVLA in Swansea. Every other hour of the day, when he’s not helping wife Fiona to care for their three children Aubree, 7, five-year-old Darcy and Oakley, 3,...
17.06.2022
Three cheers for principality’s Welsh 3 Peaks team!
What inspired you to do the Three Peaks Challenge for Tŷ Hafan Savita: Tŷ Hafan is very important to us as a family, I lost my nephew back in 2004 when he was just four years old. He was in...
10.06.2022
Going the Distance for Tŷ Hafan
In 2017 I did my first ‘challenge’ if you like. I had just had my first daughter Jessica, I was overweight and hadn’t really done much exercise since injury stopped me playing rugby. James arranged a big group of colleagues...