Community News

Lichfield Festival’s four-day Literature Festival returns to the city from 21-24 March with a fabulously full long weekend to celebrate the written word.

Plans to transform a brownfield site in Bilston into a bustling industrial park creating more than 330 new jobs are being backed by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). 

Severn Trent has been hitting the roads during the winter period to advise households and businesses on how to dispose of troublesome fats, oils and greases (FOG) properly. 

Commonwealth citizens now living in Wolverhampton who have served with the UK’s Armed Forces are being urged to seek support if they need to prove their right to live and work in the UK.

Councillor Chris Burden, the City of Wolverhampton Council’s Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, will be a guest speaker at the next meeting of a local support group for parents and carers of children and young people with autism today (Thursday 18 January).

With temperatures plummeting and energy bills rising this month, homeowners across the region can now take advantage of a new £16 million fund offering up them grants of up to £18,000 to make their homes warmer and cheaper to run.

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant has won the prestigious TS Eliot Prize for his book Self-Portrait as Othello.

The Yo! Wolves Christmas programme was a great success with hundreds of children and young people taking part in activities, fun days and sporting events across the city.

Human activities are causing world temperatures to rise, with more intense heatwaves and rising sea-levels among the consequences.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Toby's Garden Festival yet again promises two days of delight, celebration and inspiration for gardeners and lovers of the great outdoors, on the stunning grounds of Powderham Castle, near Exeter.

As part of next week’s annual US celebrations to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a pioneering British organisation has organised a historic event to take place in Central London on 24th January 2024.

WV Active’s new look gyms are now open after a £1m makeover.

A first-of-a-kind Augmented Reality (AR) app is set to transform the way communities design and build support for spaces with outdoor musical instruments, helping create a ‘shared vision’ for music-making in parks, schools, libraries, playgrounds, hospitals around the world.

Birmingham charity, Jericho, has supercharged the impact it makes in supporting people facing significant challenges with getting a job, and improved its facilities with funding from Severn Trent’s Community Fund. 

Birmingham City Council has launched a consultation on a new Road Harm Reduction Strategy aimed at tackling the unacceptable number of road collisions in which people are killed and seriously injured.

The green economy holds huge potential but skills shortages are currently putting the brakes on achieving climate goals, according to a new report by London Councils.