A major refurbishment of the Parkrose Industrial Estate could mean more than 300 extra jobs for Smethwick.

Sandwell Council has launched a website which showcases the very best of our borough. Discover Sandwell is full of information about living and working in Sandwell, as well as exploring everything it has to offer. The new website includes details about great places to visit – from Green Flag Award-winning parks such as Warley Woods […]

As we reported earlier this month, applications are now open for this year’s Aston Programme for Small Business Growth, but as well as this programme Aston University offers other business support through a variety of programmes and workshops, including the Advanced Services Programme for SMEs and the Graduate Advantage scheme.

Developers have now secured full planning permission on former school land in Oldbury to build a new multi-million pound manufacturing facility for Steel & Alloy Processing Ltd.

The Housing Zones scheme is a government initiative that will see councils around the country working in partnership with private developers to deliver thousands of new homes on brownfield land. Sandwell has been selected as one of six zones in the UK to pioneer this scheme, which is designed to address the country’s housing shortfall.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has announced a new national Cyber Security Strategy for Britain, designed to help make the UK “one of the safest places in the world to do business”. The strategy will be supported by a £1.9bn investment and will run from 2016 to 2021.

There are only two units left at the Old Park Industrial Estate in Wednesbury after the first six have all been snapped up, just six months after a major refurbishment by the landlord.

Applications are now open for this year’s Aston Programme for Small Business Growth.

A new government scheme helping small businesses to access funding has just been announced. Under the scheme small businesses struggling to access finance from big banks will be matched with alternative finance options.