Bringing Communities Together
This month marks a huge milestone at the new Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Smethwick. A lot has changed on site over the summer months with work progressing quickly on the leisure centre. All three swimming pools, including the 50m competition pool, are complete and the structural steelwork has started with […]
With almost half of English secondary schools sending children home to self-isolate this month[1], many parents will once again have to balance homeschooling while still doing their own work. So how do you balance home education and working from home? Oxford Home Schooling, one of the UK’s leading home education […]
Partial to potatoes, love lasagne or hate halloumi? Whatever your mealtime preferences, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust wants to hear about them so that patients on our wards or being supported in our community services get on the road to recovery as soon as possible. The trust launched its #WalsallFoodFaves survey […]
Funding from NHS Charities will be used to give a £50,000 makeover to the Chapel/Multi-faith room at Walsall Manor Hospital. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s Charitable Funds Committee agreed that a bid could be put together by Fundraising Manager Georgie Westley and Matron Lead for Quality David Powell to give the […]
The pool at Halesowen Leisure Centre is temporarily closed due to unexpected mechanical issues. It will remain closed until further notice, while engineers carry out emergency repairs. The gym and fitness classes at the centre site will be open and running as usual. Swimmers are advised to use the 25 […]
City of Wolverhampton businesses are being urged to act fast when the new Black Country Small Grants Programme goes live next month (November). The Government scheme – supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) – is being delivered by the Black Country Growth Hub. It will provide grants of […]
Hundreds more children have become Flu Fighters and will be joining the battle against influenza this winter as the free vaccination programme continues in Wolverhampton’s schools. All pupils from Reception to Year 7 are eligible for the free flu vaccination this year, delivered via a quick and painless nasal spray, […]
Wolverhampton Literature Festival in collaboration with Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists are on the hunt for poets across the world. The competition opens on 1 November and closes on 31 December, this year’s theme is ‘Aspects of Love’. Poets are being asked to use ‘aspect of love’ as a prompt to […]
Families are reminded that Halloween celebrations will need to be a little different this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. With coronavirus cases in Wolverhampton trebling over the last 3 weeks and the city subject to Covid-19 High Alert (Tier 2) measures which limit household contact, people are being encouraged […]
Health bosses across the Black Country have urged families to stay safe by not mixing in gardens this half term. Households mixing is banned indoors under the COVID-19 High Alert Tier 2 and these restrictions are in place in Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. This means that school friends are not […]
