Community News & Updates
- 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.
- 26th October 2023
Communities can bid for a share of a new £1 million fund set up to support green schemes that connect local people to nature and bolster the region’s resilience to climate change.