Community News

Councillor Chris Burden, the City of Wolverhampton Council’s Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, will be a guest speaker at the next meeting of a local support group for parents and carers of children and young people with autism today (Thursday 18 January).

With temperatures plummeting and energy bills rising this month, homeowners across the region can now take advantage of a new £16 million fund offering up them grants of up to £18,000 to make their homes warmer and cheaper to run.

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant has won the prestigious TS Eliot Prize for his book Self-Portrait as Othello.

The Yo! Wolves Christmas programme was a great success with hundreds of children and young people taking part in activities, fun days and sporting events across the city.

Human activities are causing world temperatures to rise, with more intense heatwaves and rising sea-levels among the consequences.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Toby's Garden Festival yet again promises two days of delight, celebration and inspiration for gardeners and lovers of the great outdoors, on the stunning grounds of Powderham Castle, near Exeter.

As part of next week’s annual US celebrations to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a pioneering British organisation has organised a historic event to take place in Central London on 24th January 2024.

WV Active’s new look gyms are now open after a £1m makeover.

A first-of-a-kind Augmented Reality (AR) app is set to transform the way communities design and build support for spaces with outdoor musical instruments, helping create a ‘shared vision’ for music-making in parks, schools, libraries, playgrounds, hospitals around the world.

Birmingham charity, Jericho, has supercharged the impact it makes in supporting people facing significant challenges with getting a job, and improved its facilities with funding from Severn Trent’s Community Fund. 

Birmingham City Council has launched a consultation on a new Road Harm Reduction Strategy aimed at tackling the unacceptable number of road collisions in which people are killed and seriously injured.

The green economy holds huge potential but skills shortages are currently putting the brakes on achieving climate goals, according to a new report by London Councils.

The help and support for young people leaving care in Wolverhampton has been praised by the National Implementation Advisor for Care leavers – and the city’s care leavers themselves.

While every month in 2023 was a bit warmer than expected, July and August were the warmest two months on record.

Despite being an avid wildlife photographer, retired postman Rodney Holbrook never expected to capture a Ratatouille-style scene unfolding in his own shed.

Hundreds of people bared their briefs for London's annual ‘No Trousers Tube Ride’ last Sunday.