Culture & Tourism

The Coventry City of Culture Trust is immediately investing in a fund to support individuals and organisations in the arts and cultural sector who are facing urgent pressures caused by loss of work related to the Coronavirus.

A ground-breaking campaign to encourage organisations to improve their approach to increasing participation and equality has signed up its fiftieth organisation.

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, President of the Royal Shakespeare Company, visited Stratford-upon-Avon where he found out more about the restoration and redevelopment work of the RSC’s Costume Workshop.

Volunteers are needed to help design a new scheme under which motorists would be paid up to £3,000 a year to give up their cars.

Coventry is going back to the future as part of an £44 million programme of works to improve its city centre.

Hundreds of adults will benefit from better skills and jobs thanks to a £3.5m training boost in the West Midlands to help them make the most of opportunities across the region, such as those provided by Coventry City of Culture 2021.

A leading college group is helping businesses to future-proof their workforces and bridge the skills gap by launching two skills centres in the region.

The West Midlands has won praise as a leading business tourism destination from UK-based event organisers in the annual British Meetings & Events Industry Survey (BMEIS).

Local experts from the West Midlands are being encouraged to apply for a position on the new Regional Board for Tourism.

• Record breaking year for the versatile smart travel card with 240,000 customers using it to get about the region
• Swift valid on every bus, train and tram in the West Midlands