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Andy Hillier Children & Young People Now 23 Feb 11
A £1.3m Myplace-funded youth facility in Walsall has been given the go-ahead after initial plans for a centre in the area were scrapped.
The facility will be based at Joseph Leckie Community Technology College and will provide a range of activities for young people as well as access to support services. The centre will eventually become the flagship of the borough’s new Integrated Young People’s Support Services…
Business
B'ham Post 21 Sep 10
The overall cost of credit for manufacturers in the Midlands has remained largely unchanged over the past two months, but there signs that supply problems are starting to moderate for bigger firms.
According to a new survey published by EEF, there has been little in the way of significant change in the lending environment for manufacturers…
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Express & Star 20 Sep 10
A scheme that beat the Black Country to £50 million of lottery funding has been hit by council cutbacks around the country, it emerged today.
The Sustrans Connect2 project pipped the Black Country Urban Park bid after winning a 2007 national vote to create 79 interconnected cycle and walking routes across the country…
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BBC Black Country 4 Aug 10
Black Country Touring, a theatre and dance group, is funded by the Arts Council England and local authorities, said it fears for its future if government funding is drastically cut.
A spokeswoman said if its funding was seriously cut, it would not be able to survive.
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B'ham Post 11 Jun 10
The row about the future of the West Midlands Leaders’ Board is far more than a political spat about what happens to a pretty much anonymous quango which, as far as can be ascertained, has achieved little of note since coming into existence last year.
There will be plenty of sympathy for Conservative councillors in the Black Country who want to save the public purse £2.3 million a year by killing off the board, although their case is weakened by the clumsiness of Walsall Council leader Mike Bird who thinks the quango employs 70 people when the true figure is 35, and who has also claimed incorrectly that the board’s budget is £3.5 million…
Business
Duncan Tift BusinessDesk 11 Jun 10
Business Secretary Vince Cable has revealed the new coalition government has “singled out” the West Midlands, North West and Humberside & Yorkshire for special treatment due to the specific economic difficulties they face.
Speaking to TheBusinessDesk.com during a visit to Birmingham, Mr Cable said that while the future of regional development agencies in the areas had yet to be resolved, the three regions would be treated as special cases…
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Advertiser 3 Jun 10
Walsall Council is hoping to hit the jackpot as it bids to secure £1.3 million of Lottery funding to develop a ‘world-class facility’ for young people in the area.
Cabinet members are expected to approve a business plan for the state-of-the-art facility they hope to develop on the Joseph Leckie school campus when they meet next Wednesday, subject to funding being secured from the Big Lottery Fund’s ‘Myplace’ initiative.
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Express & Star 16 Feb 10
Acorns Children’s Hospice is in a battle for an extra 10% NHS funding to help it care for more than 600 sick children across the West Midlands. It follows a crisis appeal for more than £1m launched last year by the hospice to secure its future and safeguard the care of hundreds of children…
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Matt Lloyd B’ham Mail 16 Feb 10
Courses and pupil numbers could be reduced at Walsall College if a £1.5 million funding cut goes ahead. Amarjit Basi, principal at Walsall College, sent out the warning as the institution faces a 25 per cent budget reduction in September…
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Jayne Howarth’s Weblog 11 Feb 10
I am not going to apologise for this short blog post, which sings the praises of Twitter, again…