Bringing Communities Together
Classic Car Auctions (CCA) had a successful start to 2022 on behalf of their vendors at this weekend’s auction with a 78% sales rate giving £3m in total sales. The auction at The Practical Classics Classic Car and Restoration Show, which returned to the NEC, Birmingham, for the first time […]
Celebration for 10 years of the Walsall Works employment programme. Launched in March 2012 to tackle youth unemployment it began by providing wage subsidies to employers creating new apprentices, resulting in 692 new starts. The programme has been supported and funded by the Council and a number of partner organisations; […]
The UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, gives every colleague a Day to Amaze – essentially a paid day off to support a local charity or good cause. Colleagues from Metro Bank’s Birmingham store decided to use their Day to Amaze by volunteering for SIFA Fireside where they helped prepare over one hundred meals for […]
DUE to popular demand, eco-friendly, electric boat company GoBoat has today announced the opening of a brand-new Birmingham location, their first site outside of the capital, with bookings now open to the public. The new site will open from April 8, where groups of up to eight guests can […]
Seven baton bearers – athletes and students from the University of Melbourne and University of Birmingham – marked the Queen’s Baton Relay arrival in Australia, running with the Baton across the Parkville campus in Melbourne. The event, hosted by the University of Melbourne and the University of Birmingham, celebrates the […]
Exciting plans for a £5 million+ housing project and health centre have been launched at King Street by Sandwell Council and Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group. Sandwell Council is borrowing £5 million to facilitate investment in the one-acre brownfield site, next to Wednesbury Leisure Centre, creating five […]
As spring arrives Walsall Council is kicking off its highway maintenance programme, investing £6.4m improving the borough’s network — an increase of almost £600k on 2021/22. This follows Walsall’s Cabinet approving a 43% increase in road safety and active travel funding at its meeting on 16 March. Walsall Council has […]
The majority of the UK can only afford to finance 3 new EVs on the market · 78 areas in the UK cannot afford even the cheapest electric vehicle on finance · Most areas in the UK can afford three of the electric vehicles through finance currently on the market · Kensington and […]
Walsall Council, in partnership with WATMOS Community Homes, has been successful in its bid for grant funding from the Social Housing Decarbonisation fund, and received one of largest allocations of energy grant funding awarded in the country. The fund, administered by the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) […]
London is the UK’s most fitness-obsessed city, new research can confirm. A new study by fitness experts BarBend analysed Google search data for each of the UK’s cities, for fitness-related terms such as ‘gyms near me’, ‘workouts’ and ‘healthy snacks’ as well as opposing terms like ‘pizza delivery’ and ‘takeaways near […]
