Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has two high street stores based within the West Midlands helping to raise much needed funds for the vital, pre-hospital emergency service, and is encouraging you to get involved and shop local.

Despite closures throughout the pandemic, last year, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity’s five high-street shops and customers generated monies to fund 172 lifesaving missions – 59 air ambulance and 113 in the service’s two critical care cars, one of which covers Birmingham and the Black Country area.

Georgia's leading natural gas provider, and Georgia Aquarium announced that the Aquarium is the first organization to take advantage of Greener Life for Business, a new service from GNG that purchases carbon offsets on behalf of GNG's commercial customers to make emissions from their natural gas use carbon neutral.

Greener Life for Business demonstrates how GNG can play an important role in helping commercial and industrial customers offset emissions while still maintaining day-to-day operations.

Three young planners and six planning schemes are in the running to win at this year’s Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) West Midlands Awards for Planning Excellence.

Projects nominated for the prestigious RTPI West Midlands Award for Planning Excellence include large infrastructure schemes, state of the art housing and sports facility redevelopment.

Becky Hellard has been named as Birmingham City Council’s Director of Council Management, as the organisation’s reshaping continues.

Having joined the council as Interim Director for Finance and Governance in October 2019, Becky has overseen the delivery of financial improvement plans across the council, strengthening the strategic approach to the council’s budget, and delivering financial resilience.

A leading economist has cautioned that ‘ethnically and socially diverse’ younger asset poor workers are set to be hit the hardest by the UK government’s proposed National Insurance rise to pay for health and social care.

Speaking ahead of an MP vote on the Prime Minister’s recommended NI rise in the Commons, Professor Alex de Ruyter of Birmingham City University also said, “Principle beneficiaries will overwhelmingly be those of a middle class, white British background and their numbers are concentrated in the south of England.”

Azets, the UK’s largest regional accountancy firm and business advisor to SMEs, has appointed Heidi Webster to Forensic Accounting Director, leading a raft of promotions and one new recruit into its growing specialist team in Birmingham.

The team, formed two and a half years ago with just two people, now has six members and is experiencing its busiest ever period, with the Covid-19 pandemic likely to be a future driving factor for further growth as more disputes and investigations are likely to arise.