£1.5m investment adds wow factor as British Art Show 9 launches
Wolverhampton Art Gallery has unveiled its new look following the completion of £1.5million improvement works that include a spectacular ground-floor eating space called Glaze.
The new facilities, which also include a new kitchen, and the development of the St Peter’s Gardens entrance, help accessibility at the Council-owned city centre venue.
The aim of the new eating space – which replaces the old upstairs café - is to create a distinctive, historic and stylish look with a modern contemporary vibe that will attract new visitors who will go on to spend time in the art gallery.
Glaze opened last Friday in time for the launch at the Lichfield Street gallery of the prestigious British Art Show 9 in Wolverhampton (January 22 – April 10).
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Major milestone paves way for future brownfield regeneration
The National Brownfield Institute (NBI) has reached another milestone with partners taking delivery of the keys to the new building on the University of Wolverhampton’s flagship £120 million Springfield Campus – another step closer to opening the doors for the future of brownfield regeneration.
The ‘shovel-ready’ project benefited from £14.9million of funding from the Government’s Get Building Fund for the West Midlands. City of Wolverhampton Council worked closely with the Black Country LEP and West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to secure the funding with the remainder provided by the Government’s Towns Fund.
The NBI will be a world-class institute that provides the facility to develop modern methods of building through innovation and partnership with the construction industry, focusing on the practical application of future brownfield regeneration and remediation through the work of research teams, leading policy development and commercial services.
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First two successful applicants receive funds to support young people
The first two successful applicants to the City Ideas Fund have been announced by City of Wolverhampton Council.
The first round of funding closed last month with ideas coming forward to address some of the key challenges connected with reducing the number of unemployed 18 to 24-year-olds in the city from 2,660.
The successful applicants - RG Box Fit, a boxing club based in Oxford Street, Bilston, and Topps for the Community (CIC) based in Langley Road - were chosen by an independent Blind Evaluation Panel made up of representative organisations and young people from across the city and moderated by an internal team from the Council.
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Host of amazing acts as major city events keep coming
Wolverhampton Literature Festival returns next week with a host of amazing acts.
The festival, which runs from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 February, will take place at various venues across the city.
It will host the likes of Phil Whang, Professor Richard Dawkins, Robin Ince, Jay Blades plus many, many more.
For more information please visit www.wolveslitfest.co.uk
Call for pledges from businesses to help tackle youth unemployment
City of Wolverhampton Council is asking local employers to join the fight in helping the city’s young people into work.
The city has the highest unemployment rate for 18-24 year olds in the country. However, the situation is not for the lack of effort by the council, its partners, businesses and other organisations. The city’s core ‘Wolves at Work’ programme has helped around 7,735 local people into jobs.
Collins Aerospace, whose Wolverhampton site employs over 1,200 people, has pledged to deliver partnerships with 4,000 local young people over the next two years, and local business A F Blakemore & Son has pledged to put the right support networks in place for new employees, to understand their career paths and build their skills.
Businesses who would like to make a Wolves at Work 18-24 pledge, or who would like to discuss the contribution they can make, are urged to contact recruitment@wolverhampton.gov.uk. Read more at Express & Star.
Is your business eligible for grant support to help growth?
Is your business:
- in the manufacturing, environmental technology, creative and digital, or business services sectors?
- looking to make a capital purchase between £20,000 and £100,000 within the next 3 months?
- Wolverhampton based with a turnover below £25m, less than 250 employees, and primarily B2B?
If yes, then it may be eligible to join the final cohort of the AIM for GOLD programme, and eligible for grant support of up to 50% of the purchase value.
Over the past two years more than £700,000 of grant funding was secured by Wolverhampton businesses with the help of the city Council's business development team. This helped to underpin an additional £1.5million of business investment in the city towards a range of items such as new CNC lathes, a hybrid digital printing machine, a venue finding IT system, warehouse racking and pipework, robotic cameras and video production items, an industrial embroidery machine, and a steel splitter and cutter.
The final cohort workshops are at Wolverhampton Science Park on the mornings of the 15th and 17th February – designed to complete the growth planning and grant application.
To register your interest please click here or email business.development@wolverhampton.gov.uk.
*Please note that numbers are limited therefore SMEs are encouraged to register their interest as soon as possible.
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