Thousands of businesses from energy intensive manufacturing firms to coffee shops and hairdressers are being offered help to cut their gas and electricity use through a £24 million scheme being led by West Midlands Combined Authority
The West Midlands remains on track to achieve its ambitious target of building 215,000 new homes by 2031 to help meet future housing and economic needs and provide local people with good quality but affordable housing.
The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has today, Friday 12 January, approved an extra £600,000 of funding towards the cost of hosting the 2026 European Athletics Championships (EAC) in the West Midlands.
Birmingham Hippodrome has today (Thursday 11 January) released exclusive backstage images of this year’s pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, giving audiences an opportunity to pull the curtain back and see behind the scenes of the giant panto full of fun.
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) and bus operators have made a commitment to deliver a minimum standard of service under the West Midlands Bus Passenger Charter.
A scheme set up by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to fund apprenticeship training for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has now supported more than 4,000 apprentices
On Thursday 24 January, Birmingham Hippodrome's Patrick Studio will host the fifth edition of the scriptwriting competition awards, Enter.Stage.Write. The evening will mark the culmination of the competition which has been open to entries since July 2023.
Nine cultural and sporting events set to take place in the West Midlands have shared £3 million of Commonwealth Games legacy funding to help bring hundreds of thousands of people together in the region.
Eight community-focussed organisations are being handed £400,000 of new funding to spearhead the levelling up of some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the West Midlands.
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