Birmingham City Council has been coordinating the program for Birmingham Special Schools for over 10 years. This year, we were happy to welcome 800 children from 20 schools from the Birmingham area. Children enjoyed a free raid on the carousel at the Victoria Square, thanks to the […]

  Pupils from Baskerville School were enjoying free rides on the carousel on the German Christmas Market on Tuesday. The youngsters were among 1178 children from special schools in Birmingham enjoying free rides on the carousel at the Victoria Square this year, thanks to the generosity […]

Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market returns to the city for five weeks from Thursday 13 November. Set up through our partner city connections with the City of Frankfurt, this is the 14th consecutive year that the Frankfurt Christmas Market has been held in Birmingham. It is […]

  Birmingham’s internationally renowned Christmas Markets return to the city for six weeks from 17 November – and for the first time will remain open until 29 December. This year the Frankfurt Christmas Market – organised by Birmingham City Council in partnership with Frankfurt Tourism […]

Councillor Waseem Zaffar, Cabinet Member for Transport and Sustainability, and Philip Edwards, Assistant Director Transportation and Connectivity, visited Frankfurt on 24 October to work on new strategies to improve Birmingham’s sustainable transport infrastructure. The study visit included meetings with the Frankfurt’s Economic Development GmbH, the […]

On the 18th of May a group of 20 resident of Frankfurt visited Birmingham with the representative of the Frankfurt’s Mayor Office Ingrid Cammerzel. They were greeted and met by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham Anne Underwood on her last day in post.  

After Mayor of Frankfurt, Peter Feldmann, visited Birmingham last month, Lord Mayor, Carl Rice, flew to Frankfurt-am-Main for the inauguration of the Frankfurt-Birmingham tram on Wednesday 21 December.     The two Mayors unveiled the tram which is decorated with the coat of arms and […]