Birmingham City Council is consulting staff at our youth centres on a proposed structure which puts services at risk. We need to unite, organise and campaign to protect the Lighthouse Young People’s Centre and Lozells Recreation Group.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Welcome to Schlongbridge

On this day in 1971, Simone Langenhoff, aged 6, was killed while cycling to school; hit by a speeding driver. Her death and the movement started by her father, Vic Langenhoff, a newspaper journalist, changed an entire country and saved thousands of Dutch lives. Here's how 🧵

👋Big congratulations to Grendon Primary School and Queensbury School both Midlands winners at Team Modeshift STARS Regional School Awards 2024

I’m so pleased that Simon has this role, and that finally we are seeing the joining up of the health and active travel agendas at a national level (which so many people have known is needed and makes sense for so long!)

CLIMATE PROTESTORS NEED TO STOP BLOCKING ROADS!!

‘Some people never really came back from furlough’ (Entire comedy special available only on NextUp - Live Comedy)

🚨 akt’s Emergency Winter Appeal is now LIVE! 🚨 Right now, too many LGBTQ+ youth face homelessness, rejection, and cold nights on the streets. You can change that. Donate now to give them safety, warmth, and hope: akt.org.uk/donate/?utm_so…

Should be interesting watching Elon Musk doing to America what he did to Twitter.

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Think Viktor Gyokeres might be asking #Arsenal if he can come back with us on the plane from Lisbon tonight!

Lou Haigh did more to improve transport in a few months than many Secretaries of State achieve in years and was taking this brief on with passion and a strong resolve to fix things fast. A talented strong young woman, hope she goes on to do even more good. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Best reaction to an FA Cup draw ever! (especially the last twenty seconds)

I have been verbally abused twice on the way to football matches so far this season. On both occasions I was minding my own business, head down, walking to the ground. I was called 'a fucking queer cunt' by one man and another told me that 'our club doesn't want disgusting gay

Russia 2018, Qatar 2022, Saudi Arabia 2034. FIFA is an absolute joke organisation. None of these nations should ever have been chosen.

Birmingham Pride is deeply disappointed by the Health Secretary’s decision to indefinitely ban puberty blockers for trans+ young people, despite these same puberty blockers remaining available for cis young people and being supported by decades of evidence. We stand in solidarity

Caught up with a client this week who’s been doing some engagement with children all over #Birmingham and found that their common issue was that there’s nowhere in the city centre for them. Is Europe’s most youthful city the least child-friendly? #play CityPark4Brum ROAM