Press Release News & Updates
- 18th November 2022
An innovative scheme set up by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to fund apprenticeship training for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is within touching distance of its £40m target.
- 18th November 2022
Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, was in Bangladesh today following his weeklong trade mission to neighbouring India.
A new research study has set out the potential impacts of climate change on businesses, infrastructure and people’s health in the West Midlands in the decades ahead.
- 8th November 2022
The West Midlands has been awarded more than £1 million of funding to help people right across the region keep warm and well this winter as energy bills continue to rise.
Local businesses and communities across the region are to get more than £88m of targeted support to help drive economic growth and improve people’s opportunities in life.
- 26th October 2022
A huge jobs bonanza in the region’s transport industry has opened up for thousands of young people and others looking for a change of career, a newly published report has revealed.
- 20th October 2022
A review by the Independent Remuneration Panel (IRP) into the level of allowances paid to members of the West Midlands Combined Authority’s (WMCA) boards is to be considered at a meeting on Friday October 28.
A ‘Tech Commissioner’ is set to be appointed to help supercharge the West Midlands by helping to build a forward looking, technologically advanced economy that harnesses big data to improve public services and drive business.
The Woodland Trust has delivered a major boost for communities across the region by providing nearly £300,000 to ramp up tree planting and help the West Midland Combined Authority (WMCA) tackle climate change.
A far-reaching blueprint setting out what is needed to level up the region was launched by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) today (Monday Oct 3) at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.