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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The Mayor has announced an additional 10,000 EV charging points will be built in the West Midlands 🔋 LEVI funding will provide more chargers and help reach net zero by 2041 💚 Over the past year, the region has seen a 36% increase in charging points 🔌
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Thousands more EV charging points on the way as region’s network powers up
Another 10,000 electric vehicle charging points will be installed on the region’s roadsides as latest Department for Transport statistics show the number of chargers in the West Midlands is already gr...
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Richard met young people at Xcelerate with Edgbaston alongside Skills Minister Jacqui Smith. Xcelerate is a community learning hub aiming to boost a million career prospects by 2030 💼 So far, they’ve trained around 3,500 people - including Kundai, a Path 2 Apprenticeships participant 💪
Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, and Skills Minister, Jacqui Smith, speaking to apprentice commis chef, Kundai Nazare, in an Xcelerate with Edgbaston kitchen with baked goods on the counter in front of them.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"The uptake on the free travel has been fantastic, but we still need to do more to make the region's buses work better for local people." 🗣️ Richard on the Passenger Incentive Programme passing five million bus journeys in its first year 🚌 Read more: www.wmca.org.uk/news/mayor-s...
The Mayor of the West Midlands Richard Parker looking onwards with a free bus ticket billboard in the background.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Wolverhampton will play host to the next Ask The Mayor 🗣️ 📅 Tuesday 29th April 📍 Mander Centre Community Hub, WV1 3NH 🎟️👇
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Ask the Mayor Anything: Richard Parker Q&A - Wolverhampton
Ask the Mayor anything you want in regards to the West Midlands!
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Electric cargo vehicles are on trial at the University of Warwick that could replace petrol and diesel delivery vans 🚎 Funding from the West Midlands Innovation Programme is being used by the Last Mile Logistics Project to run tests 🔋
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Mayor backs real world transport trials to help parcel deliveries go green
The Last Mile Logistics Project is one of more than 700 businesses supported with funded secured by the Mayor to help commercialise new products and technologies in healthcare, health diagnostics and ...
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The West Midlands Innovation Accelerator is getting a funding boost 💰 The additional £10 million will support even more of the region’s innovative businesses, researchers and entrepreneurs to grow the economy 🧑‍🔬
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Mayor secures £10m funding boost for West Midlands innovators and entrepreneurs
The West Midlands is one of just three areas of the country to share £30million of new innovation funding from government to provide even more expert advice and funding to help commercialise new and e...
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Richard was in Birmingham to commemorate the end of Ramadan ✨ The annual Eid prayers attract thousands of residents each year 🙏
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🗣️ The next Ask The Mayor instalment is coming to Dudley! 📅 Tuesday 1st April ⏰ 6-7pm 📍 Black Country Living Museum, DY1 4AL 🎟️ 👇
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Ask The Mayor Anything: Richard Parker Q&A - Dudley
Please join me for an informal Q&A at the Black Country Living Museum
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
💼 The Mayor visited Colebridge Trust, who have helped 500 people gain confidence and skills needed to secure jobs and training opportunities. 🤝 The Trust has employed over 45 people from the local area, some who have faced challenges in the job market.
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Mayor backs initiative to boost job prospects of hundreds of people in Solihull and Birmingham
Colebridge Trust has helped 500 people living gain the confidence and maths and digital skills needed to secure jobs and training opportunities, and directly employed over 45 people from the local are...
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🏡 A programme to upgrade some of the region’s dampest social housing will help improve the lives of thousands of families faced with a potential health hazard. 👥 The £15m Social Housing Decency Fund has made 8,000 individual improvements across the West Midlands. 👇 Details
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Thousands of social homes treated for hazardous damp and mould
£15m Social Housing Decency Fund has fixed more than 4,400 of the region's dampest homes
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🧱 Thousands of bricks have been donated to provide Walsall College students with hands-on experience 💪 Persimmon Homes have committed to strengthening the industry’s future workforce
A person listening to a conversation with Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🗣️ "It is essential that we develop these sites, attracting investors and growing industries, to reignite the economic growth this region has long been waiting for." 📈 The Mayor on securing additional funding for three investment zones.
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West Midlands Investment Zone funding paves the way for thousands of new jobs at key employment sites
Mayor Richard Parker confirms first West Midlands Investment funding to get Birmingham Knowledge Quarter and Wolverhampton Green Innovation Corridor shovel ready for companies to move into.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A new £100m manufacturing and logistics hub in Walsall will create around 1,000 jobs once completed 🔧
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Mayor sees construction start on the £100m SPARK regeneration scheme
Huge manufacturing and logistics hub set to create 1,000 new jobs in Walsall
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🗣️ “The next two weeks are packed with even more incredible opportunities for businesses to connect and collaborate with each other and help drive our economy to the next level.” 💼 Richard Parker on the launch of the West Midlands Business Festival.
Richard Parker speaking to an audience behind a podium at the West Midlands Business Festival.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
💼 Young people who are not in education, employment, or training are set to benefit from a new scheme designed to get them into work. 🆕 YouthPath will work alongside businesses to create career opportunities for the region’s young people.
Richard Parker listening in to a conversation with Katie, a young person, who has benefitted through employer opportunities.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
You have until 5 March to recommend individual learners, educators, learning providers or employers for recognition at this year's Adult Learning Awards 🏆
Richard Parker standing with another person on a stage under a presentation slide that reads: "Adult Learning Awards."
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A £21m funding package from the Government will improve cycling and walking routes in the West Midlands 🚶
Richard Parker and Deputy West Midlands Mayor, Cllr Sharon Thompson, walking on the recently renovated Dudley Road pedestrian path.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Mayor has secured funding worth filling 88,000 potholes across the West Midlands 🛣️
An AI generated image of a pothole.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"This strategy marks the start of a new era of cleaner, more resilient and cheaper energy supplies to help our residents and businesses." The Mayor on the new Regional Energy Strategy⚡️
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West Midlands to supercharge UK’s smart energy revolution
The new Regional Energy Strategy outlines the powers and funding needed to introduce cutting-edge technology and transform the way energy is generated, stored and used - with the long-term aim of chea...
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🗣️ “This redevelopment, backed by West Midlands Combined Authority investment, will ensure Edgbaston continues to attract top-tier cricket, thousands of visitors every year, and more jobs for local people.” 🏏 The Mayor on the confirmed redevelopment at Edgbaston Stadium👇
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Edgbaston granted permission for hotel and stadium redevelopment
WMCA backed plans to redevelop world famous cricket ground get green light
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A historical site in Wolverhampton will see the creation of 93 social homes 🏠 Part funded by @WestMids_CA, the former SJ Dixon & Son premises will be converted to help address the housing shortage 👇
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Landmark Wolverhampton building to be converted for new social housing
WMCA teams up with Homes England to make multi-million pound investment into final phase of Royal Quarter regeneration
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Construction has started on a brownfield site in Wolverhampton that will be transformed into over 530 energy-efficient homes, complemented by a range of new commercial and community amenities 🏠 The West Midlands Combined Authority has invested £20m into the scheme 👇
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Work starts on £150m Canalside South regeneration scheme
£20m WMCA investment will transform former British Steel site for hundreds of new homes
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The next Ask the Mayor event is coming to Solihull 🚨 Your chance to talk about Richard's policies and priorities takes place on Wednesday 25th February at Solihull College Business Centre. 🎟️ 👇
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Opportunity for Solihull residents to question Richard Parker, Mayor of the West Midlands
Residents in Solihull are to get the chance to question Richard Parker, the Mayor of the West Midlands, about his policies and priorities at a face-to-face meeting.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🏠 A £167 million energy efficiency fund will upgrade up to 10,000 of the oldest and coldest social, and privately-owned, homes in the region to make them warmer and cheaper to run. 👇More on the story below.
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Mayor’s plan to improve living standards and cut energy bills for thousands of households
Up to 10,000 of the oldest and coldest social and privately-owned homes in the region will be upgraded to make them warmer and cheaper to run - this is thanks to a £167 million energy efficiency fund ...
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Mayor has appointed more than 50 experts to help deliver his four key priorities: Jobs, Journeys, Homes and Growth. The four dedicated taskforces of experts will provide insights, challenge ideas and help make a real difference to people’s lives in the West Midlands.
Photograph of Mayor Richard Parker stood with a group of men and women. Photograph of Mayor Richard Parker sat down next to a man in a meeting with a pull-up banner that reads Growth for Everyone.Photograph of two women sat down at a table writing and working on an i-Pad.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🎭 Laura and Tegan secured apprenticeships at Birmingham Hippodrome after completing a Creative Venue Technician Bootcamp training course at Solihull College. 🤩 They are now working alongside Alison Hammond.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🚗 Richard recently visited JLR to see how they are training young people. 🧑‍🔧 He met a Jack, an apprentice, and found out more about the difference it his making to his own professional development.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The Mayor has welcomed recent figures revealing more than 43,000 people in the region have been given job training in the last eight months. Tackling unemployment, especially amongst young people, is one of Richard’s four key priorities.
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More than 43,000 people get vital jobs training as Mayor seeks to upskill the region
More than 43,000 people have been given crucial job training over the last eight months including skills needed for the region’s fast-growing industries of the future.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The Mayor has today launched a consultation on bus franchising – a plan to improve reliability, routes & fares for the West Midlands network. Over the next 3 months, the public are being asked to give their views on Richard’s plan for a franchised bus network.
A man (Mayor Richard Parker) standing in front of a bus. The sign on the bus display reads 'Have your say'
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The season of giving 💛 The Mayor recently handed several sacks of toys, donated by West Midlands Combined Authority staff, to @cashforkids.bsky.social Mission Christmas 🎁
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Richard is live! 🚨 Call in with your questions to 08081 00 99 56. Listen live 👇
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Radio WM - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio WM on BBC Sounds
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Richard will be taking your questions on BBC West Midlands hot seat later this morning🎙️ Ask your questions on 08081 00 99 56. You can listen live 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Richard Parker listening to a question at a radio studio.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🗣️ Richard said: “Helping people gain the skills to secure well-paid jobs and transform their lives is at the heart of what I’m working to achieve. “The skills bootcamps and training providers in our region are crucial in equipping people to thrive.”
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Mayor visits Coventry College to meet retrofit bootcamp learners
Mayor of the West Midlands visited Coventry College to meet over 20 leading engineering and retrofit stakeholders and employers and retrofit bootcamp learners. He joined the College’s Skills of the F...
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
At Coventry College, The Mayor saw how a West Midlands Combined Authority funded insulation bootcamp is helping students gear up for careers in future technology industries. He also met the engineering and retrofit stakeholders and employers collaborating to help maximise learner opportunities.
The Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, speaking to bootcamp stakeholders at Coventry College.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🗣️ Richard said: “Foundry Park will bring new life to this site and create over 300 much needed jobs for local people. “This modern, environmentally sustainable development will give businesses room to grow and contribute to the community.” More here👇
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More than 300 jobs on the way as work starts on new business park
Foundry Business Park will breathe new life into 15 acres of derelict industrial land in Bilston
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The Mayor visited the most recent West Midlands Combined Authority invested brownfield site that is set to create over 300 jobs 💼
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In Wednesbury, Richard personally paid thanks to Sue Tycer, a Transport for West Midlands employee, who helped a rough sleeper secure permanent accommodation. Find out more about her incredible efforts 👇 www.wmca.org.uk/news/bus-sta...
Richard Parker (right) - the Mayor of the West Midlands - hugging Bus Station Supervisor, Sue Tycer (left) at Wednesbury bus station.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Richard recently attended an event to mark 100 years of Midland Heart. 🗣️ He said: "Let this celebration inspire us to rise to the challenges of 2024 and beyond, to build homes and communities that offer security and opportunity to everyone." Here's to the next century!
The Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, engaging in a discussion.The Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, speaking to an audience. The Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, engaging in a discussion.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Did you see that the West Midlands is to receive a £5 million boost from the Get Britain Working initiative? This will help bolster career prospects of our region's young people. Find out more 👇 www.wmca.org.uk/news/west-mi...
Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, sat down listening to school pupils talk.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If you missed it, The Mayor announced free bus travel across the West Midlands! 📅 9th-13th December ⏰ 7pm ℹ️ tfwm.org.uk/freebustravel
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🗣️ Richard said: "It can be an expensive time of year, so I hope this free travel offer can make people's money go further and see the benefit of travelling by bus while enjoying what our region has to offer this festive season.” More on the story 👇
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Mayor of the West Midlands unveils UK’s biggest free bus travel offer this Christmas
Free weekday evening travel is being offered across the West Midlands, on all bus services, in the run up to Christmas this year, in a unique move never seen before on this scale in the UK.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Mayor Richard Parker has announced a free travel scheme across the West Midlands. From 7pm on 9th to 13th December, anyone can hop on any bus in the West Midlands for free in a first initiative of its kind. More details can be found here: tfwm.org.uk/freebustravel
Photograph of Richard Parker sat down on a bus.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In a recent visit to FANUC UK in Coventry, the Mayor was pleased to see the tech firm’s support for upskilling and offering support to young people.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The Mayor spent yesterday morning at The Hawthorns 📍 Firstly, he spoke about boosting prosperity in the region at the #SandwellBusinessGrowth summit ✅ Then, Richard met West Bromwich Albion representatives to discuss matchday improvements ✅
The Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, speaking into a microphone.The Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, engaging in a conversation.The Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, overlooks the pitch at The Hawthorns.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Local organisations like Attic Brew Co. have benefitted from Business Growth West Midlands' Decarbonisation Net Zero programme, after making a 61% saving on annual energy spend. Find out how your business could save money and reduce energy: www.businessgrowthwestmidlands.org.uk/support-prog...
Richard Parker, Mayor of the West Midlands, listens to a conversation while holding a pint of beer.
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Mayor of the West Midlands @mayorwestmids.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Richard recently visited Digbeth Loc. Studios where they are making the new Peaky Blinders film. 🗣️ He said: "I want to make the West Midlands the beating heart of the UK creative economy. That vision means unleashing the talent of our communities."
The Mayor the West Midlands stood outside Digbeth Loc. Studios with crew working on the Peaky Blinders film.
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