Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, hands a free Woodlands Trust sapling to 13-year-old Betty Green as part of the WMCA's Right Tree, Right Place campaign earlier this year 2022

Woodland Trust provides £300k funding to boost tree planting across the West Midlands

The Woodland Trust has delivered a major boost for communities across the region by providing nearly £300,000 to ramp up tree planting and help the West Midland Combined Authority (WMCA) tackle climate change. The funding will be used by the WMCA to establish the West Midlands Forest Partnership which will help partners reach their tree…

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Channel 4 Dispatches reveals the shocking failure of Prevent to tackle far right and religious terror

Monday’s edition of Dispatches on Channel 4 exposed shocking revelations about the failure of the government’s controversial de-radicalisation Prevent programme which is allowing some perpetrators, including far right terrorists who want to ignite a “holy race war”, to evade justice. Dispatches: Are We Losing the War on Terror? (18 April) revealed the disturbing truth about the Government’s…

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Muslim community leader Mashkura Begum, featured in tonight's Disptaches programme on Channel 4, is calling for Prevent to be scrapped

‘Prevent has been a total failure and should be scrapped,’ Muslim leader calls out counter terrorism strategy

A Muslim community leader from Birmingham has slammed the government’s anti-terror Prevent programme for failing to stop radicalisation, accusing it of “sowing the seeds of suspicion and hate towards ordinary Muslims”. Mashkura Begum, chair of community empowerment organisation Saathi House, features in a special Dispatches programme to be aired on Channel 4 tonight which explores failures…

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Paulinah Eboh-Sampson, co-founder of the Donation UK Project, joined by a model showcasing womenswear label Dolls of Decadence

Birmingham sisters launch fashion campaign to highlight blood donor shortages

Birmingham sisters Janet and Paulinah Eboh-Sampson used their creative platforms to set up the DoNation UK Project, a charitable initiative that would address the issue of donor shortages within the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Community (BAME). Inspired by the experience of their childhood friend Charlene Nelson, who underwent a kidney transplant at the age…

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St Patrick's Day celebrations in Birmingham are attended by thousands of people from all backgrounds (Photograph: Adam Yosef)

58 photos capturing the beautiful diversity of St Paddy’s Day celebrations in Brum

Birmingham is home to several high-profile annual community celebrations and parades, from Chinese New Year festivities and Birmingham Pride to the Birmingham Mela and Birmingham Carnival, but if there was ever one event that seems to bring everyone together – regardless of age, background or heritage – it would have to be St Patrick’s Day….

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