Organisers are planning to return with a three-day event on 18 – 20 June 2015. This year the festival will be moving to Victoria Square – still to be confirmed. The event will bring to Birmingham Caribbean food, many drumming and zumba style Caribbean workshops, energy, […]

Independence Day is an annual celebration on 15th of August as a reminder of the day India got freedom from the British rule after long years of slavery. It has been declared as the National and Gazetted Holiday all across the India in order to independently […]

Birmingham’s Nigerian Igbo community organise and celebrate Iwaji, an important heritage, during the month of August. The festival is a way to talk about, share and keep the cultural traditions alive. The New Yam festival, known as Iwaji, is the celebration of the importance of […]

The Vaisakhi celebrations will take place in Handsworth Park on Sunday 26 April to mark the Sikh nation’s collective birthday. The festival is one of the largest in Europe and welcomes up to 100,000 people on the day. The event will be a free and opened […]

A EUROCITIES meeting hosted by Birmingham City Council on 15 – 17 April 2015 was the first event bringing both the EUROCITIES Education and the Employment working groups together. Its purpose was to better understand the challenges, issues and solutions related both to the education and employment […]

Making the case for cities as key partners in European Transport Strategy, Brussels, 20 April 2015 Cllr Lisa Trickett visited Brussels to meet new Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc in order to push the urban mobility agenda forward in the European Commission. Alongside Deputy Mayor of […]

Europe Day will be organised by the Europe Direct Information Centre Birmingham at the Library of Birmingham to commemorate 9 May 1950 seen as the first major symbolic day in the Europe creation process. In order to develop and preserve peaceful relations between European countries, […]

The European Commission Vice-President for the Energy Union, Mr Maroš Šefčovič, hosted a high level round table on the strategic role of smart cities for tackling energy challenges in Brussels on 25 February. Sir Albert Bore presented how Birmingham is improving the energy efficiency of […]

Birmingham City Council welcomed two delegates from the Catalan capital, Mr Alex Masllorens, the Deputy General Manager of Social Services, and Mrs Angels Canals, the Director of the Municipal Institute of Social Services. The purpose of their visit was to find out more about how […]

Youth unemployment is a major issue, not only in Birmingham, but also on the wider European scale. The latest figures show that while youth unemployment in the UK has decreased compared to the previous year, it is still worryingly high. According to ONS Labour Market […]