Bringing Communities Together
A new NHS campaign is encouraging people struggling with their mental health to seek confidential help from NHS talking therapies. Research shows that nearly half of South Asians put off seeking professional help and the NHS is encouraging them to make use of a range of free services available for anxiety, […]
Walsall Council’s review of ensuring that all residents who meet the eligibility criteria for a council tax single occupancy discount are fully supported is now underway. Councillor Adrian Andrew, Deputy Leader said: “We are undertaking our annual review of who’s eligible for the Council Tax single occupancy for those individuals who […]
Walsall’s leisure centres are once again offering a variety of fun activities for families and young people during the February half-term. Sessions will run between Monday 21 February and Sunday 27 February and bookings are now open. As well as public swimming at all four borough centres, Bloxwich and Oak […]
Walsall’s Hidden Hippo Trail now offers users the chance to win prizes in a photographic competition. Participants could win up to £300 in ShopAppy vouchers that can be redeemed at participating retailers in Walsall. The ShopAppy scheme helps small businesses sell their goods online and a new click & collect […]
Walsall Council has been successful in securing £254k of grant funding from the Office of Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) as part of their On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) programme. This funding will be supported by £85k of match funding from the Council in order to deliver approximately 35 chargepoints across […]
Nearly two years of living through a pandemic has brought into very sharp focus the need for us all to take care of ourselves physically and mentally too. Walsall Council is directing funding at several community based projects to help. One of them is the Thrive Wellbeing project which will […]
Residents are being asked to be vigilant as the borough expects strong winds during the next couple of days. A yellow warning of strong winds is in place expected from the afternoon on 16 February until the early hours of Thursday morning and then a further Amber warning is in […]
The government recently announced a new fund to help with increased home energy costs. This will be in the form of a £150 council tax energy rebate for eligible households, that is, those in Council Tax band A to D inclusive, accounting for around 92% of households in the borough. Households […]
Residents in the borough aged fifty and over are being encouraged to get on the dance floor and get moving with new dance classes on offer. Dance to Health, funded by Walsall Council Public Health, has started delivering free dance classes at Brownhills Community Association for people aged 50 and […]
A pest control business with a difference has begun trading in Solihull, Redditch and the surrounding areas this week. PGH Beegone, part of the PGH Beegone franchise, specialises in solving pest problems others can’t while also offering a rare live bee removal service. PGH Beegone Solihull Redditch owner Louchlan Deeming […]
