Bringing Communities Together
Funds totalling £300,000 have been given to 65 projects in 36 wards during the 1st round of awards for a city council programme designed to help people celebrate the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games All 69 of the city’s wards will eventually receive support through the Celebrating Communities Small Grants Funding Scheme. […]
Eligible families are encouraged to register as the council opens registration for its Easter session of the hugely successful Holiday Activity and Food Programme. The council has worked with over 50 providers in the borough to offer Children and young people, fun, locally-based activities, while providing the opportunity for learning […]
Vauxhall line-up already includes twelve electrified versions Entire Light Commercial Vehicle line-up already available as fully electric Electrified version of each model by 2024 Vauxhall will be 100% pure electric – cars and vans – from 2028 Vauxhall Crossland and Insignia successors also battery-electric New Vauxhall Manta with purely electric […]
To support the development of the next generation of female talent, Bentley Motors has kicked off a bespoke mentoring programme for female students in the fields of technology, engineering, design and business. Following the successful launch in the UAE last year, the programme is now being rolled out in the […]
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is warning drivers that updated mobile phone laws will come into force this month*. The new rules ban drivers from using their phones to take photos or videos, play games or scroll through music playlists. It is already against the law to […]
Walsall Council has begun statutory consultation on proposals to introduce Additional Licensing for Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs). The scheme aims to improve conditions and management of HMOs in five further wards of the borough (Willenhall South, Birchills Leamore, Blakenall, Bentley and Darlaston North and Darlaston South) where there are […]
Following the launch of the Walsall Heritage Strategy (2021-2026), to unleash the Borough’s creative spirit and industry for the future, a new funding round has launched to support heritage projects. To support fresh ideas; from sharing untold stories to championing culture, from outdoor activities to creating digital content, the main aim […]
A new national campaign is calling on those eligible not to ignore their invite, as data reveals nearly 1 in 3 don’t take up the offer of cervical screening A new survey reveals that 17% of South Asian women who have been invited to screening have never attended, higher […]
Thousands of children across the borough will receive their offer of a secondary school place. 1st March is National Offer Day, when children up and down the country find out which secondary school they have been allocated for the 2022/23 academic year. In Walsall, 3,836 applications were received on time. […]
At a meeting of Full Council on 24 February councillors approved Our Council Plan (Council’s corporate plan) 2022-25. The draft Plan was first considered at a meeting of Cabinet on 9 February, where it was agreed that the Plan be recommended to Council. The plan sets out Walsall Council’s ambitions […]
