Conservative Party Conference 2022 Key Cities Fringe Event (in partnership with Core Cities and Onward)
Building on Onward’s Levelling Up research, and earlier partnerships with Core Cities and Key Cities, this event will bring together senior policymakers and other stakeholders to discuss the Government’s levelling up agenda and how devolving power to the regional level can support left behind communities across the UK. It will be a chance to consider […]
Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe
Top national award for Coventry Council team
A Coventry City Council service has secured a prestigious, national award for its work helping support some of the most vulnerable people and families in the city. The Housing and Homelessness Service has been named the Large Team of the Year in the LGC Awards 2022, which celebrates excellence in local government. This year the […]
Wolverhampton makes £20million bid to help fund Green Innovation Corridor
The Government announced in February 2022 that Wolverhampton and Sheffield would be the first of 20 cities to benefit from part of £1.5billion of Levelling Up funding for new infrastructure to be developed on brownfield land to boost housing and jobs. The aim of the Green Innovation Corridor is to build on Wolverhampton’s growth as […]
Eden Project North Levelling Up Fund bid for £50m submitted
The Eden bid aims to be one of the two £50m awards being given out in the second round of the Levelling Up Fund for projects with a culture and heritage investment theme. These awards are for “flagship projects and must be in line with the Fund’s focus on highly visible interventions that boost local […]
Creating healthy cities- Labour Party Fringe Event
In 2022, Key Cities, a network for 25 cities based across the country, launched a new report on The Healthy City, which set out a new vision for cities in 2050 to be based on a ‘health first principle’ that makes the case for cities to increase their support and promotion of mental, physical and […]
Cllr Steve Pitt
Key Cities APPG: Skills for Cities, Skills for Life
Informed by the Key Cities Skills Conference held in May, a survey of member cities, and input from member universities of the Key Cities Innovation Network, the APPG will formulate recommendations and facilitate a constructive partnership on skills between Key Cities, Ministers and Government Departments. This event is open to MPs and Peers. Associate Members […]
Cultural Cities Enquiry
