Local News and Updates
- 15th January 2024
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
- 12th January 2024
The Cancer Support Centre, based in Sutton Coldfield, have announced their first fundraising event of the year.
- 12th January 2024
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.
- 9th January 2024
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.
- 9th January 2024
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
- 5th January 2024
The Coleshill School’s Natasha Blunt is celebrating after winning the EdTech Innovator of the Year accolade as part of the glittering National Schools Awards.
- 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.
- 28th December 2023
There is just three weeks left for community groups, businesses, educational institutions and public sector bodies to enter the 2024 West Midlands Natural Environment Awards.
- 21st December 2023
The West Midlands has become the first region in the UK to get ground-breaking new ‘Growth Zone’ powers capable of generating more than £1.7 billion for local councils to spend on levelling up their most deprived areas and driving future growth.
- 21st December 2023
His Majesty King Charles will have a little light reading to do this Christmas, after hundreds of Sutton Coldfield students wrote to him to tell him about their school’s ‘Royal’ plans.