Poverty in Coventry
coventrysociety CovSoc Vice Chair, Tim Brown, has been looking at recently published data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This is what he found….. The government released an…
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Coventry Business Improvement District (BID)
Jo Glover (Chief Executive of Coventry BID) gave a thought-provoking talk to a Coventry Society General Meeting on Wednesday 12 November. A BID is a geographically-defined area where rate-paying businesses…
Local Government Reorganisation in Warwickshire
The current arrangement of local government in Warwickshire is set to change over the next three years. At present there is a two-tier system of government, with Warwickshire County Council…
Peregrine Chicks at Leamington Town Hall
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire has reported that four peregrine falcon chicks have hatched at Leamington Town Hall. Two adult birds have nested in the town’s Grade II-listed building since 2017,…
What has the WMCA ever done for us?
In the spirit of Monty Python, this might have been the question asked by members of Coventry City Council’s Scrutiny Co-ordinating Committee during April. In response, the snappily named West…
Coventry Society Annual Report 2024 – 2025
With the Coventry Society’s AGM approaching this month, the Society has published an Annual Report of activities over the year from February 2024 to January 2025. You can download a…
A Quick Look in the Spam Basket
So today I took a look in my Spam folder and realised all the amazing things that I have been missing. Well, it seems that my anti-virus protection is about…
A Ghost Story for Christmas.
CovSoc Vice Chair, Peter Walters, tells us that in the late 80s / early 90s there was a tradition at the Coventry Evening Telegraph of publishing local ghost stories over…
Meet the new Chair!
The new Coventry Society chair for 2024-26 is Trevor Cornfoot. Trevor spent his working career in town planning and economic development. He has a strong belief in the importance of…
CovSoc Annual Report 2023 – 2024
Introduction This is the annual report of the Coventry Society for the year 2023 – 2024. The Society is a registered charity and this report sets out our achievements during…