Bringing Communities Together
The UK’s leading aid agencies, diaspora groups, and youth activists demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday, urging the new PM to wake up to the looming famine in East Africa. Co-ordinated by Action Against Hunger UK, the agencies sounded 80 alarm clocks to call the Government to act on the food […]
Visiting the city for Birmingham Tech Week, Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy Damian Collins met with MSc scholarship students and alumni from Birmingham City University (BCU) and University of Birmingham (UoB) at BCU’s new £70m state-of-the-art STEAMhouse innovation campus. The Digital Minister highlighted the successful partnership between the […]
Virgin Money has relaunched its innovative financial education programme, Make £5 Grow, with additional tools and resources designed to prepare schoolchildren and provide the skills they need to better manage their finances in the future. Delivered in schools, Make £5 Grow is a free scheme which works with and […]
In a ground-breaking national collaboration, 56 Local Authorities across England have worked together to share ideas and jointly fund the creation of a short film to raise awareness of fostering. It is aimed at finding more people who may be interested in becoming foster carers and providing nurturing, positive homes […]
Deakin & Francis, world-renowned British family jeweller, is proud to launch a new limited-edition pair of cufflinks, now released in gold-plated sterling silver. The cufflinks were designed to help fundraise for the lifesaving pre-hospital emergency care provided by Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. The new gold-plated cufflinks, priced at £275 […]
The University of Birmingham has loaned an historic painting with a Shakespeare connection to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun led an embassy to London in 1600 to deepen trade and diplomatic links between Britain and Morocco, and may have influenced Shakespeare’s depiction of […]
The first step on the journey to shape the planning framework that will guide development and regeneration activity in Birmingham over the next 20 years is set for approval tomorrow (October 11). Members of the council’s Cabinet will be asked to approve the Birmingham Local Plan Issues and Options Document […]
Barbers in the West Midlands and Birmingham, who may be considering closing their shops because of the cost-of-living crisis, have been thrown a lifeline by a mobile male grooming business. Get Groomed Mobile Barbers is looking to recruit between 15 and 20 barbers in the Birmingham area at a time […]
National recognition has been earned for the city council’s Mobile Household Recycling Centre (MHRC) service – in the form of a prestigious Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) Award. At the organisation’s 2022 awards ceremony, staged on Wednesday (October 5), the MHRC initiative, which launched in the summer of 2021, […]
Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Birmingham City Council have formally launched a bid to the Government’s Levelling Up Fund for a new Masterplan to transform Edgbaston Stadium and support the surrounding community. The “Edgbaston Stadium and Community Masterplan” will create a mixed-use destination with cricket and community at its core, […]
