Sally-Anne Youll

Former Wolves stars will be taking part in a charity match as part of a big community fun day to raise money for Acorns Children’s Hospice. Wolves All Stars are captained by Jody Craddock and managed by Mel Eves, who played over 200 games for Wolves including in the 1980 League Cup Final victory at Wembley. The teams incudes players such as Karl Henry, Dave Edwards, Michael Kightly and Kevin Foley and will be up against AFC Wulfrunians at the event in July. Danielle Cashmore, from AFC Wulfrunians, said she hoped to see hundreds of people at the family fun […]

Eight charities will be taking part in a giant ‘walkathon’ through Birmingham’s Cannon Hill Park to celebrate inclusion and raise money for people with disabilities. Wheel’n’Walk 2023 will take place on Sunday, June 25, starting at 11am, raising money for Cerebral Palsy Midlands. Joining CPM for the event will be Birmingham Phab Camps, Resources for Autism, Together Minds CIC with Noah’s Star charity, SEND Socials CIC, Headway Birmingham & Solihull, CASBA Advocacy and NICE Charity UK (Conductive Education). Sarah Lilly, Cerebral Palsy Midlands development officer, said: “We all do our own individual fundraising as a sponsored walk, but we all

Students’ Union awards to honour outstanding achievements The 12th annual Wolverhampton University Students’ Union awards are set for this week – and they are bigger than ever. The glitzy event is due to take place on Thursday, May 18, at the Molineux stadium’s Hayward Suite. A new category this year is Outstanding Contribution to the Student Community Experience, which recognises an external organisation that has helped improve life for students in Wolverhampton, especially in light of the cost of living crisis. The shortlist for Placement Provider of the Year features two local primary schools – Highfields and Northwood Park –

A finance firm based in the south east of England has landed two awards at a prestigious nationwide ceremony. GSI Group was named one of the best financial advisers to work for and senior paraplanner Catherine Pappoe was named Paraplanner of the Year in the Professional Adviser Awards held on Tuesday, April 25, in London. The firm, which has offices in Westerham, Kent, and Camberley in Surrey, was also a finalist in the Adviser Firm of the Year, South East category. The awards celebrate excellence in retail financial services and over 400 representatives from the financial services industry attended the ceremony at

Young referees across the UK are being offered a helping hand through a new fund set up in memory of Joel Richards, who was killed in a terrorist attack aged just 19. Joel was a promising referee with his sights set on the Premier League, but his journey was cut short when he, his grandfather Pat and uncle Adrian were killed in the 2015 Tunisia beach attack. His younger brother Owen, who survived the attack, and his mother Suzy, from Wednesbury, in the West Midlands, went on to set up the Smile For Joel charity in his memory, helping families

A West Midlands charity has become an official partner of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s Travel Aware campaign which gives British tourists the information they need to help them have a safe trip abroad. Smile For Joel has long campaigned for holidaymakers to be made aware of potential risks when travelling abroad and now carries a whole host of advice, information and links on its website for travellers to easily access. The charity was set up following the terrorist attack in Tunisia in June, 2015, when 38 tourists were killed. Among the victims were Joel Richards, aged 19, from

A Wolverhampton campaign group is calling on the city’s MPs to back an increase in overseas aid. The group, called Wolverhampton Has Heart, recently met Stuart Anderson, Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West, and Pat McFadden, Labour MP for Wolverhampton South East, during a lobby day at Parliament. They have sent 100 postcards from Wolverhampton people supporting the campaign to Mr McFadden. Group spokesperson Emily Aitchison said: “The campaign is to get MPs, particularly Mr McFadden in his position as shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, to back the reinstatement of the aid budget to 0.7% of GDP, as it

A new website celebrating the incredible story of Mary Prince, the first black woman to have had her slave narrative published, is being launched in Wolverhampton. University of Wolverhampton PhD researcher Ifemu Omari has created the website to help share Mary’s story. It is being launched at the University’s Arena Theatre and is supported by the University of Wolverhampton Students’ Union as part of its series of Black History Year events. Ifemu said: “I want to inform and inspire both the Windrush generation and younger, non-specialist audiences about Mary Prince, the only black woman from the West Indies to have

A Birmingham company has used reclaimed material from the Commonwealth Games – including dismantled gym floors – to create unique presentation boxes for special thank you gifts to each of the 72 countries and territories who took part. Representatives from these nations and territories have received giant ‘pin badges’ bearing their own flag which had been on show in Centenary Square during the Games. A special commemorative ceremony was held in Birmingham, which hosted the Games over the summer, and the badges were presented on behalf of the people of Birmingham. They were displayed in special boxes, measuring around one

The incredible story of a teenage boy who joined the Army aged just 14 and fought at the Somme during World War One will be retold by his grandson as part of a new battlefields tour taking place this year. Dave Turner will share the story of his grandfather Alfred William Turner as guests walk in the young soldier’s footsteps on the four-day trip, run by Staffordshire-based Century Tours to mark the anniversary of the start of the battle on July 1. Dave, 55, of Stonnall, near Lichfield, only discovered his grandfather’s story when he and his son Callum, 19,