Latest West Midlands news (July 2020) - Make It West Midlands

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre is to launch a series of FREE online activities over the summer, and there is something for everyone to enjoy and engage with.

The RAF Museum starts the Battle of Britain commemorations with the annual Spitfire 10K event, but in a slightly different format.

To celebrate Coventry Moves, Coventry City of Culture Trust have produced a one minute film telling the story of Coventry’s history.

The Stratford Literary Festival and Kissing it Better Charity have partnered to spearhead an exciting inter-generational collaboration exploring experiences of isolation. 

As we await details of the Government’s £1.57bn funding package, Heart of England Community Foundation and Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 have joined forces to provide a much-needed boost to organisations and individual artists across Coventry and Warwickshire.

Spirit of 2012 – the London 2012 legacy fund – has awarded a major £1 million grant to Coventry City of Culture Trust to facilitate a programme of cultural activities, working with community organisations across the city.

Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm will celebrate its 35th birthday on Friday 24 July. Although the celebrations will be low key compared to what was planned, the gates will be open to warmly welcome visitors back.

Today the Royal Air Force Museum announced an exciting new programme which offers members of the public the opportunity to adopt one of over 50 objects within the Museum’s collection.

Merlin Entertainments announce that as part of their reopening plan they will donate 30,000 tickets globally to emergency service and frontline essential support workers who have worked throughout the pandemic, in a new initiative called ‘The Big Merlin Thank You’

After submitting its final stage of the application to UNESCO last year, the Black Country Geopark project group has been waiting with bated breath to hear whether it would be successful. And today, more than ten years on since the project was first conceived and discussed it has become a reality.