by Sue Oliver | Jun 23, 2020 | Community, Hippy Shop, Press Release
Flintshire based social enterprise RainbowBiz CIC has been given the green light to reopen its trading arm, the Hippy Shop in Mold next week by First Minister Mark Drakeford. Along with all other non essential retail premises in Wales, the Hippy Shop has been making...
by Darren Cook | Apr 29, 2020 | Community, Digging Deeside, Health, Personal
Changing lives with like minded volunteers enhances wellbeing, gardening, bees and flowers. Chat, joke, sing and dance, but understand differences, love not hate, we are in this together. Working together in green spaces, enhancing nature, saving the bees from...
by Darren Cook | Apr 20, 2020 | Community, Digging Deeside, Health, Personal
Hi my friends, I walked my first 6 laps of the back garden at 2pm this afternoon. Sometimes when I’m walking around the garden a bee buzzes past me as if to say hi Daz, thank you for tending the wildflowers that provide pollen and nectar for us bees and other...
by Darren Cook | Apr 20, 2020 | Community, Digging Deeside, Health, Personal
Walking into the garden for light exercise and to listen to the birds and the bees is good for my body and my mental health. Listening to the whistling of the birds or the buzzing of the bee brings happy smiles to my face and takes away any feelings of stress. We need...
by Sue Oliver | Apr 14, 2020 | Health, Personal
So we are in the midst of the most incredible times of our life we are having to learn to social distance from our friends, family and the rest of the community. Covid 19 has completely changed our way of live, how we work and how the Country is operating. I had...
by Sue Oliver | Apr 6, 2020 | Community, Digging Deeside, Funding, Fundraising, Press Release
A social enterprise that works with the most marginalised members of the North Wales community has been saved from closure after receiving £10,000 in emergency funding. RainbowBiz CIC were facing a financial crisis after Covid-19 forced them to close their Hippy Shop...
by Sue Oliver | May 27, 2016 | General
Volunteers from RainbowBiz’s weekly gardening group “Digging Deeside” joined members of Quaystone Chapel’s congregation on Wednesday morning to support the church in the bid to win a Community Gardens Award which is to be judged from July 4th onwards. The Quaystone...
by Sue Oliver | Oct 12, 2015 | LGBT
Commencing on Saturday, 10th October, Hate Crime Awareness Week aims to: raise awareness of what Hate Crime is; encourage reporting, and; promote local support services and resources. The under reporting of Hate Crime remains a challenge. We want everyone to...
by Sue Oliver | Sep 4, 2015 | Press Release
PRESS RELEASE – FROM CONNAH’S QUAY TOWN COUNCIL The Town Council is immensely pleased at the success of the fourth annual Connah’s Quay Flower and Vegetable show held at the Civic Hall on Saturday 29 August which built upon the success of the first two events....
by Sue Oliver | Aug 24, 2015 | Digging Deeside
Today we had a few donations of plants and a composter. Jobs carried out were: Digging Over and planting the plants that we received. Plants were: Red leaved Basil (Ocimum basilicum ‘Purpurascens’) Lemon Basil (Ocimum americanum) Seeds planted into bed...
