20/08/2020
Active Black Country have partnered up with the Association for Physical Education (afPE) to support Sandwell MBC’s Play Service by providing 1,000 skipping ropes to vulnerable families within Sandwell.
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11/08/2020
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has today (Tuesday August 11) unveiled the Starley Network, a new 500-mile cycling vision for the West Midlands.
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05/08/2020
Entries for this year’s Run for Joel are now open! The event is set to be the biggest to date as participants across the UK run/walk/cycle from home to raise money for Smile for Joel, a leading...
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27/07/2020
UK Coaching has launched a new toolkit that will ensure the nation’s coaches are equipped with the knowledge and skills to provide great coaching experiences to others, and support them as coaches to...
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24/07/2020
An open letter urging sport and leisure decision makers to put disabled people’s inclusion at the heart of plans and preparations as restrictions are lifted further.
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17/07/2020
A new project is underway looking at how to enhance three West Midlands open spaces – the sort of areas that since lockdown many of us have come to value.
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14/07/2020
One in six workers experience mental health difficulties which has resulted in millions of lost work hours from sickness and presenteeism (where workers attend work unwell).
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13/07/2020
Specialist sports facilities to support Olympic and Paralympic athletes are set to be expanded as part of the extension of a long term partnership between the University of Wolverhampton and the...
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13/07/2020
Following a month-long campaign to engage with residents and groups across the Black Country, evidence shows that lockdown has encouraged previously inactive people to start moving more.
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10/07/2020
British Blind Sport have expanded their First Steps programme which empowers and encourages children between the ages of 3 – 11 years old with a visual impairment to develop their early developmental...
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06/07/2020
Dudley Council are working in partnership with Active Black Country and Aspire Sports and Fitness to develop a specialist Community Sport and Health Officer (CSHO) Apprenticeship for Dudley schools to...
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01/07/2020
The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has signed up to a ground-breaking participation and equality initiative.
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01/07/2020
Plans for pop-up cycle lanes, wider pavements and many other measures to encourage more cycling and walking across the West Midlands have been given overwhelming backing from Government.
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25/06/2020
British Orienteering and orienteering clubs around the UK are working together to promote Permanent Orienteering Courses as a way of discovering the outdoors in a socially distanced way.
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23/06/2020
We have developed a package of support for Housing Association residential care homes, and Local Authority care sites, which provide information, advice and support services to vulnerable older aged...
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19/06/2020
As more opportunities to be active resume, new guidance released today will help providers to enable welcoming, and more accessible environments.
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