Doncaster and Wrexham granted city status
The competition to receive civic honours was last run ten years ago to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and this year for the first time ever the competition for city status was open to applications from the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, with the Falklands’ Stanley and Douglas of the Isle of Man among the […]
Key Cities AGM
Key Cities Innovation Network launched
The network responds to a growing trend by Government and funding agencies to focus on investing in place-based innovation to address disparities and deliver on the Government’s levelling up agenda. The universities – Bath, Bradford, Coventry, East Anglia, Gloucestershire, Lancaster, Salford, South Wales, Sunderland and Wrexham Glyndwr – are all located within the Key Cities […]
Key Cities: A manifesto
United and industrious
Key Cities: An introduction
Key Cities welcomes new member cities
Bath, Exeter, Lincoln and Wrexham will join the network of 21 other member cities, which have a broad political and geographical spread across the UK. Key Cities works with other cities, towns and organisations across local government and beyond to deliver prosperity, protect the environment and raise standards of living across the country. The network […]
Key Cities: four new members announced
Carlisle, Gloucester, Medway and Swansea have all officially joined the collective, which launched in 2013 and now encompasses 24 diverse cities across the UK, with immediate effect. Each of the new member cities brings valuable contributions to the group’s growing network, which seeks to generate awareness of the economic contributions of its member cities and […]
Key Cities elects new Chair
Cllr John Merry CBE, Deputy City Mayor of Salford takes the position of Chair with immediate effect, joining Deputy Chairs Cllr Michael Mordey and Cllr Alan Jarrett on the group’s leadership team. His appointment follows former Cllr Peter Box MBE’s recent resignation as Leader of Wakefield Council and Chair of the Key Cities group. Cllr […]
Welcome to the new Key Cities
We recognise the important role each of them plays within their respective regional economies and we are looking forward to working with them and learning from their ideas and experiences. Together they add a £another 9.3bn to the size of our collective economies – taking Key Cities current contribution to the UK economy to figure […]
