Community News & Updates
- 26th January 2024
The most extensive study of the West Midlands’ tree population reveals for the first time their value to the health and wellbeing of local people and the environment.
- 19th January 2024
B:Music, the charity responsible for Symphony Hall and Town Hall in Birmingham, has raised £20,800 as part of its festive fundraising campaign – comfortably beating its original target.
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
- 3rd January 2024
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.
- 29th December 2023
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.
- 18th December 2023
Birmingham Hippodrome are recruiting people aged 14 – 22 for their 2024 Young Advocates programme.
- 15th December 2023
A dedicated senior support worker at Lisieux Trust was a finalist in the Great British Care Awards for the second time in three years.
- 12th December 2023
Generous public donations totalling over £280,000 have helped provide much needed support and protection for those sleeping rough on the streets of the West Midlands as part of the year-round Change into Action alternative giving campaign.
- 18th November 2023
Join Mel Wardle Woodend, Marcello Giovanelli and Aston Society of Poetry for Spoken Word at Sacks on Wednesday 13th December 2023 at 6pm.
- 27th October 2023
Scores of pubs, some as far away as Newcastle, have been put forward for special protection in response to a West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) campaign to save cherished locals from closure.