April 2020

Businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire have been given an insight into a campaign to help more firms benefit from a Government grant during the Coronavirus crisis.

A new online learning platform to help boost the nation’s skills while people are staying at home, has been launched today (28 April) by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.

Skills Support for the Workforce (SSW) in Coventry & Warwickshire – Funded skills training is available to help your business to progress

SSW has adapted delivery of its training provision to continue to support small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

Coventry and Warwickshire’s rich history in R&D and education will play a key role in helping to stimulate the area’s economy post-Coronavirus.

An award-winning social enterprise with a focus on preventing social isolation among the elderly and vulnerable throughout Warwickshire and Coventry is developing a stronger voice to help all ages.  

One of the UK’s largest online pet stores based in Stratford-upon-Avon has tripled its workforce to cope with a rising demand from animal owners across the UK during Covid-19.

A new business website aimed at SMEs has been launched to provide companies with high-profile supply chain opportunities, news and events happening in Coventry and Warwickshire.

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has approved a further suite of multi-million-pound investments to unlock and transform former industrial sites across the region including Fountain Lane in Sandwell and Abbotts Lane, Coventry.

Welcome to the ESIF Programme COVID-19 Notification Bulletin. Through these bulletins we aim to keep you updated and notified of the latest information published for the 2014 to 2020 ESIF Programme in response to COVID-19.

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is playing a crucial part in setting up the new NHS Nightingale Hospital at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) by funding the training of hundreds of key workers.

Three programmes, aimed at supporting small and medium sized business in Coventry and Warwickshire, have been extended until June 2023 and provided with additional funding.

Physical activity providers such as gyms, companies that run gyms for local councils and personal trainers could benefit from a scheme to improve the sector’s digital skills.

A forward-thinking, Midlands-based manufacturer is investing a six-figure sum to make a major reduction in its carbon footprint – and has received grant funding to support its efforts.

Accelerate is a support project based in Coventry and Warwickshire that has been helping unemployed and economically inactive people to remove their barriers to work since 2016.

Ten Coventry and Warwickshire artists have been selected to showcase and perform new work as part of an online scratch night.

The Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, is celebrating the upcoming Vaisakhi festival virtually and is encouraging people to share their celebrations using the hashtag #VirtualVaisakhiWM

Companies have been warned to abide by the rules of new Government Coronavirus measures – or leave themselves open to penalties.

Firms of all sizes have opted to furlough staff meaning that they are no longer actively working in the business but remain employees.

Adult education providers funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) are changing the way they deliver training during the Covid-19 outbreak, so that local people continue to learn new skills.  

A specialist laboratory in Coventry which has won new contracts and extended its workforce after investing in a state-of-the-art instrument is planning to target more world-wide business.

Small businesses across the West Midlands have started to receive more than half a billion pounds of financial aid to help them through the coronavirus lockdown, it was confirmed today.

A Coventry company has taken just a week to devise, design and supply a new protective face visor for the NHS – with 10,000 units dispatched within seven days.

North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College (NWSLC) has answered the call to donate essential equipment to the NHS for use in the fight against the coronavirus.