Meet the new chair!
coventrysociety The new Coventry Society Chair for 2026-2028 is Tim Brown Tim has lived in Coventry for nearly 50 years and has had a varied career starting off as a planning…
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Need the Loo
This news blog was published on Grapevine’s Connecting for Good website. The problem it addresses will be recognised by many of our older members. Community-led Action: Joanna’s Story of Shaping…
CovSoc 2025–2026: A Year by the River
Coventry Society’s latest annual report (covering February 2025 to January 2026) paints a picture of a busy, campaigning and increasingly influential civic organisation. From riverside walks to planning battles, blue…
Stopping Coventry’s Decline!
CovSoc Vice Chair, Tim Brown, asks what’s to be done about the disappointing state of Coventry’s economy? Tim writes…… There has been considerable media coverage of the ‘Cities Outlook 2026’…
Motor Industry Workers Celebrated in Photo Project
The BBC has reported on a project to capture image of Coventry car workers and the vehicles they built, in a celebration of the twinning of Coventry and Dresden. Vanessa…
Poverty in Coventry
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…
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…