Heledd Wyn
@heleddwyn.bsky.social
Solicitor, TEP, Partner & Trustee. Solver of problems. IHT planning, asset protection, care fee funding, mental capacity, vulnerable client & Court of Protection. Bristol based, national reach ☕️ views on coffee my own
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Slight fangirl moment at Lady Hale’s 80th dinner party 🥳
January 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Slight fangirl moment at Lady Hale’s 80th dinner party 🥳
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Lawyers! Social mobility charity, BVL (www.bvl.org.uk) is looking for lawyers to judge our mooting competition on the following dates, all taking place via Zoom between 6:30-8:30pm: 20 Feb, 6 Mar, 20 Mar & 3 Apr. Pls get in touch if you can help on any of those dates. The students are AMAZING
BVL: Improving Social Mobility in Law
A social mobility charity, working to get a new generation into law
www.bvl.org.uk
January 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Lawyers! Social mobility charity, BVL (www.bvl.org.uk) is looking for lawyers to judge our mooting competition on the following dates, all taking place via Zoom between 6:30-8:30pm: 20 Feb, 6 Mar, 20 Mar & 3 Apr. Pls get in touch if you can help on any of those dates. The students are AMAZING
Hear Kate Garraway’s voice on #socialcare costs - £16K a month - 2 unheard appeals for funding
“Now I've got excessive, unpayable debt because of it, & if I'm in that position, what are other people going to be? People can't afford four more years of this?"
tinyurl.com/mer8x3th
“Now I've got excessive, unpayable debt because of it, & if I'm in that position, what are other people going to be? People can't afford four more years of this?"
tinyurl.com/mer8x3th
Kate Garraway confronts Wes Streeting over husband Derek's 'unpayable' care costs
On the anniversary of her husband’s death, Kate Garraway said she had been left with ‘excessive, unpayable debt’ over his £16,000-a-month care costs
tinyurl.com
January 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Hear Kate Garraway’s voice on #socialcare costs - £16K a month - 2 unheard appeals for funding
“Now I've got excessive, unpayable debt because of it, & if I'm in that position, what are other people going to be? People can't afford four more years of this?"
tinyurl.com/mer8x3th
“Now I've got excessive, unpayable debt because of it, & if I'm in that position, what are other people going to be? People can't afford four more years of this?"
tinyurl.com/mer8x3th
Care costs money
Who pays?
Who pays?
January 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Care costs money
Who pays?
Who pays?
💫 Happy New Year y’all! 💫
Nothing revolutionary from me today - save to say that if you are going to spend online this year - consider using www.easyfundraising.org.uk/panel/ to help support your favourite charity.
A tiny but hopefully easy resolution!
Now go get 2025! 💪
Nothing revolutionary from me today - save to say that if you are going to spend online this year - consider using www.easyfundraising.org.uk/panel/ to help support your favourite charity.
A tiny but hopefully easy resolution!
Now go get 2025! 💪
www.easyfundraising.org.uk
January 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
💫 Happy New Year y’all! 💫
Nothing revolutionary from me today - save to say that if you are going to spend online this year - consider using www.easyfundraising.org.uk/panel/ to help support your favourite charity.
A tiny but hopefully easy resolution!
Now go get 2025! 💪
Nothing revolutionary from me today - save to say that if you are going to spend online this year - consider using www.easyfundraising.org.uk/panel/ to help support your favourite charity.
A tiny but hopefully easy resolution!
Now go get 2025! 💪
Are you
Team James T Kirk?
Or
Team Jean-Luc Picard?
Either way - live long & prosper 🖖
Team James T Kirk?
Or
Team Jean-Luc Picard?
Either way - live long & prosper 🖖
December 31, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Are you
Team James T Kirk?
Or
Team Jean-Luc Picard?
Either way - live long & prosper 🖖
Team James T Kirk?
Or
Team Jean-Luc Picard?
Either way - live long & prosper 🖖
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Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine!
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales
December 28, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine!
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales
Greetings from the mothership #llanddwyn
December 26, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Greetings from the mothership #llanddwyn
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Award-winning photographer Walter Waygood has been taking pics of Father Christmas stretching back 42 years
Photographer's astonishing archive of Welsh Santas
David Owens He is a Welsh photographer renowned for his documentary photography work illustrating the communities of the South Wales Valleys, however every festive season, Walter Waygood, can be seen…
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December 25, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Award-winning photographer Walter Waygood has been taking pics of Father Christmas stretching back 42 years
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Nadolig llawen, here's hoping you have a lovely Welsh Christmas 🏴
December 25, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Nadolig llawen, here's hoping you have a lovely Welsh Christmas 🏴
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This brilliantly funny clip titled ‘Every Welsh person returning to Wales from England’ will be instantly recognisable for anybody who has lived away from home
Watch: The hilarious video of a Welshman coming home for Christmas
Picture the scene. You’ve been away from Wales living in London. You’re heading home for Christmas and you’ve just driven across the Severn Crossing. You are heading into Wales. Excitement rises as…
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December 21, 2024 at 9:05 PM
This brilliantly funny clip titled ‘Every Welsh person returning to Wales from England’ will be instantly recognisable for anybody who has lived away from home
Cultural understanding is crucial. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Family left 'in tears' after Sikh man's beard cut - BBC News
The man's family say "everyone's belief systems need to be respected".
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Cultural understanding is crucial. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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An article for @newsweek.com about palliative care, ordinary dying and underfunding across the UK www.newsweek.com/i-witnessed-...
I witnessed a peaceful death—it made me question our approach to dying
Why do people here know so little about what ordinary or natural dying looks like?
www.newsweek.com
December 20, 2024 at 10:15 PM
An article for @newsweek.com about palliative care, ordinary dying and underfunding across the UK www.newsweek.com/i-witnessed-...
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From Canada #AssistedDying and discrimination driven deaths. An analysis of the data blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2024/...
Discrimination-driven deaths – Analysing Ontario Coroner Reports on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide – BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
blogs.bmj.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:14 PM
From Canada #AssistedDying and discrimination driven deaths. An analysis of the data blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2024/...
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#BlackSky @11kbw.bsky.social has launched this year's scholarship round to help support black students who want to train to become #barristers #UKLegal.
11KBW Scholarship for Black students on the BPC 2025 – open for applications www.11kbw.com/knowledge-ev...
11KBW Scholarship for Black students on the BPC 2025 - open for applications | 11KBW
Pupils and barristers from Black/Caribbean/African/Black British ethnic groups are particularly underrepresented across the Bar. Black underrepresentation is particularly acute at the civil Bar and, w...
www.11kbw.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:53 AM
#BlackSky @11kbw.bsky.social has launched this year's scholarship round to help support black students who want to train to become #barristers #UKLegal.
Yup
“South West England has the most expensive care costs on average, at £1,419 per week”
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensio...
“South West England has the most expensive care costs on average, at £1,419 per week”
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensio...
How much would a care home cost you? What you need to know
With the cost of care at an all-time high, more people paying, the number of people forced to pay out thousands in later life is on the rise.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
December 17, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Yup
“South West England has the most expensive care costs on average, at £1,419 per week”
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensio...
“South West England has the most expensive care costs on average, at £1,419 per week”
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensio...
“Everyone should have access to high-quality, compassionate care, from diagnosis through to end of life”
Ah NHS CHC and the myriad ways people are not eligible…
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...
Ah NHS CHC and the myriad ways people are not eligible…
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...
Surge in pensioners with progressive diseases losing NHS funding for vital care
More families are seeing withdrawal of health help for elderly loved ones in system branded ‘complete con’, says Age UK
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 14, 2024 at 8:13 AM
“Everyone should have access to high-quality, compassionate care, from diagnosis through to end of life”
Ah NHS CHC and the myriad ways people are not eligible…
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...
Ah NHS CHC and the myriad ways people are not eligible…
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...
Makes for interesting reading in light of the assisted dying bill going theough Parliament at the moment www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
For the first time, the annual report delved into race and ethnic data of those who underwent assisted dying.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Makes for interesting reading in light of the assisted dying bill going theough Parliament at the moment www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Important garb for office Christmas party 🎄🥂
Fab beanie - thanks @helenburness.bsky.social
Festive tights (found at back of cupboard)
Fab beanie - thanks @helenburness.bsky.social
Festive tights (found at back of cupboard)
December 12, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Important garb for office Christmas party 🎄🥂
Fab beanie - thanks @helenburness.bsky.social
Festive tights (found at back of cupboard)
Fab beanie - thanks @helenburness.bsky.social
Festive tights (found at back of cupboard)
This is going to be worth listening to
“Giving someone else control of your finances and decisions – through Lasting Power of Attorney – is meant to come with a guarantee that they always act in your best interest. But that doesn’t always happen…”
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
“Giving someone else control of your finances and decisions – through Lasting Power of Attorney – is meant to come with a guarantee that they always act in your best interest. But that doesn’t always happen…”
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - Shadow World - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Shadow World on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 6:55 AM
This is going to be worth listening to
“Giving someone else control of your finances and decisions – through Lasting Power of Attorney – is meant to come with a guarantee that they always act in your best interest. But that doesn’t always happen…”
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
“Giving someone else control of your finances and decisions – through Lasting Power of Attorney – is meant to come with a guarantee that they always act in your best interest. But that doesn’t always happen…”
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
For a heartwarming story - have a look at this
Gympanzees an epic charity
Gympanzees an epic charity
Watch: The moment Frankie walks his mum Hannah down the aisle to marry his dad. The best thing you'll see on the internet today.
It was a dream made possible thanks to hard work & the amazing Bristol charity Gympanzees
Read the full, lush, story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
It was a dream made possible thanks to hard work & the amazing Bristol charity Gympanzees
Read the full, lush, story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Watch the 'miracle moment' boy who can't move walked his mum down the aisle
Little Frankie then made a surprise speech at the reception and even joined in the first dance
www.bristolpost.co.uk
December 8, 2024 at 12:48 PM
For a heartwarming story - have a look at this
Gympanzees an epic charity
Gympanzees an epic charity
“What can the UK can learn from Japan's world-leading social care system?”
Quite a lot by the looks of it but of course…. Money has to have been invested into the system
www.express.co.uk/news/world/1...
Quite a lot by the looks of it but of course…. Money has to have been invested into the system
www.express.co.uk/news/world/1...
What can the UK can learn from Japan's social care system? | World | News | Express.co.uk
The Express visited Kawaguchi City near Tokyo to learn about Japan's revolutionary Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) system.
www.express.co.uk
December 8, 2024 at 8:10 AM
“What can the UK can learn from Japan's world-leading social care system?”
Quite a lot by the looks of it but of course…. Money has to have been invested into the system
www.express.co.uk/news/world/1...
Quite a lot by the looks of it but of course…. Money has to have been invested into the system
www.express.co.uk/news/world/1...