Community News

Nine cultural and sporting events set to take place in the West Midlands have shared £3 million of Commonwealth Games legacy funding to help bring hundreds of thousands of people together in the region.

The UK is lagging behind the likes of Australia, EU and USA when it comes to checking whether regulations are working as intended, says head of independent better regulation watchdog.

Alstom, the global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, is celebrating after British Indian data scientist, Smital Dhake was announced as a winner at the RailStaff Awards 2023 in the UK.

A teenager from Caterham, Surrey has shown that age has nothing on ambition after successfully completing his first redevelopment project and setting records on the TV show, Homes Under The Hammer.

Laurence Ramsay, known as Loz to the customers and staff at Beeches Pool & Fitness Centre near Great Barr, is saying goodbye to the centre on January 9th next year after over 40 years of service.

It was announced that Kids Company charity founder and social justice campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh died – on her birthday - having been ill for some time.

Save the date - Lunar New Year celebrations will take place in Birmingham on Sunday 11 February 2024.

The Gospel Oak, north London house where Claudia Jones died on Christmas day 1964, had a Nubian Jak Community Trust blue plaque unveiled to commemorate the life and work of the radical activist.

City of Wolverhampton Council has set up a new City Housing Oversight Panel to empower council tenants and leaseholders.

The shift towards all parents and carers getting the flex they need took a huge step forward in Parliament, meaning it will become law in April 2024.

A new survey from Acas has found that seven out of ten employees (70%) are not aware that they will have a right to request flexible working from their employer from day one of their job next year.

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.

As the UK braces itself for Storm Gerrit, Severn Trent is encouraging customers to familiarise themselves with who to call should they experience any problems due to bad weather conditions.

80 hectares of land, the equivalent of more than 100 football pitches, has been transformed into woodland by Enfield Council, using natural solutions to reduce the risk of flooding.

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.

Mr and Mrs Claus and onlooking passengers at Birmingham New Street station were all in shock when Darren popped the question to his girlfriend of over three years, Rachael, just before Christmas in Santa’s sleigh!