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An innovative programme funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to give local people the skills they need to start a new career in construction has moved online for the first time, to continue training during the Covid-19 shutdown.

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.

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.

The leading business organisations across Coventry and Warwickshire have come together to co-ordinate all the support available to companies in the area during the Covid-19 crisis.

A pipeline of more than £250m of investment is being provided to help revitalise West Midlands town and city centres and kick-start their wider transformation. 

Local people will have the chance to learn valuable construction skills and gain new jobs on a major project to regenerate Coventry city centre, thanks to a new training hub which has opened.

Three businesses based in Coventry and Warwickshire have secured a total of £2 million from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).

Welcome to the February/March issue of the European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds Programme Bulletin. This month, alongside the usual Programme updates, we include items on the ERDF and ESF reserve funds and highlight a change in regulations relating to procurement scoring

A former global director at Jaguar Land Rover is the new chair of a taskforce set up by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to drive up skills in the automotive sector.

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.