Community News

The City of Wolverhampton Council’s Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, Councillor Jacqui Coogan, is encouraging residents to put forward nominations for this year’s Young Citizen of the Year award.

Practitioners working for the City of Wolverhampton Council’s Children’s Services said the authority promotes relationship working, which helps them to support children and families to achieve positive outcomes and to reach their full potential.

Four charities based in the county have each received a funding boost as part of Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards to support their vital work.

From September, working families of children aged between nine months and two years will be able to claim 30 hours of funded childcare per week - up from the present 15 hours.

The Phoenix Newspaper was pleased to have been part of a Q&A with author Kent Hung on the publication of his third book ‘Starry, Starry Night’.

Opportunities for the private sector to get involved in Wolverhampton’s pioneering Green Innovation Corridor (GIC) are being presented to investors, funders, developers at UKREiiF this week (May 20-22).

Young people from the borough are to be educated and empowered to steer clear of knife crime and gang violence as Haringey marks Knife Crime Awareness Week.

In recognition of the outstanding contribution that the Erdington Litter Busters has made to the local community, the McCarthy Stone Foundation has donated £500 to the Birmingham-based group to help support towards making the local area a cleaner and greener place to live.

More residents of West Yorkshire who develop dementia will be able to live in their homes more safely and for longer, after housebuilders galvanise around ‘dementia-ready’ improvements to new builds and refurbished properties.

Hundreds more families are set to benefit over the next 12 months from new homes that are safe, decent and affordable thanks to an unprecedented shift in power, funding and responsibility from Westminster to the West Midlands.

Channel 5’s hit series ‘Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly’ is returning to the screens soon for its eighth series.

With close proximity to Shakespeare’s Birthplace and Warwick Castle, the 104-bedroom Stratford Manor Hotel Stratford Manor Hotel is part of The QHotels Collection and set in 22 acres of beautiful grounds.

City of Wolverhampton Council has welcomed a £2million boost to help tackle potholes as more road improvement works are rolled out.

Birmingham City University's (BCU) Deputy Head of the College of Computing and Cybersecurity expert, Dr Junaid Arshad, has explained how stolen personal information, including contact details and dates of birth, may increase the risk of serious threats in the future.

Elspeth Chapman shares how London Met’s Special Collections are preserving women for future generations as, throughout March, people around the world celebrated Women’s History Month; an opportunity to recognise the achievements, struggles, and contributions of women past and present.

The United Kingdom is entering a new era of immigration policy — one that promises control but risks collateral damage.