I meet with lots of local businesses, who are all keen to know how they can play a part in the newly forming LEP, or local enterprise partnership. If you aren’t familiar with the LEP, its aim is to bring together public sector and private companies to work together for the benefit of the local [...]

Last week I was invited to speak to Lichfield’s Civic Society. I received a warm welcome from a group of over forty passionate local people. After a short presentation, I listened to the group’s views and spent some time answering their questions. I think that the civic society plays a really important role in our [...]

Last week I had the real pleasure of meeting a team from Chasetown Football Club. Whilst I have heard about the work of the club and the team before, I’d not realised how much of a positive impact their work has on local people’s lives – and particularly the lives of the young people involved [...]

Well it will be in Lichfield this summer! I’m absolutely thrilled that the Staffordshire Hoard is heading to Lichfield Cathedral this summer. If you’ve not heard the news, check it out on our council website. Officers and members at the council have been working with our colleages at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on [...]

I just wanted to wish all my blog readers a happy New Year, and I hope you had an enjoyable festive break, and are now getting back into the swing of things.   Over the New Year I visited Saundersfoot (near Tenby) and watched some very intrepid people take part in the Saundersfoot New Year’s [...]