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Seven skilled volunteers have been recruited by Wyre Forest District Council to play a key role in establishing Bewdley Museum as a fully independent trust. The volunteers will work together to shape Bewdley Museum’s future by agreeing forward-thinking strategies, a business plan and more. They will become trustees when the fully independent trust is established. Councillor Hel ...

It’s Volunteer Week from Tuesday 1 to Monday 7 June. This is an opportunity for everyone to say thank you to the millions of volunteers who give up their time to help improve their local communities. Volunteers have played a key role in the pandemic response. In the Wyre Forest district, almost 200 residents registered as volunteers for Worcestershire’s Here2Help scheme. This w ...

Helping landlords understand the latest changes to regulations due to Covid-19 is one of the aims of a Worcestershire online landlords’ forum. The free event is open to all landlords and letting agents in the county and is being held on Tuesday 8 June at 2pm.  It is being organised by the six district councils along with the National Residential Landlords Association. It will o ...

A former Mayor of Kidderminster who was inspired to become a councillor to carry on the work of his late wife, has been elected Chairman of Wyre Forest District Council. Councillor John Aston, who has represented Aggborough and Spennells ward for the last 16 years, was named Chairman at Wyre Forest District Council’s annual meeting last night, taking up the reins from outgoing ...

Councillor Helen Dyke was voted the new leader of Wyre Forest District Council at its full council meeting last night (Wednesday 12 May). Her appointment followed Councillor Graham Ballinger’s announcement in February 2021, that he would be stepping down from the role at the end of the municipal year. Councillor Dyke is the third woman in the council’s history to take on the Le ...

Staff at Bewdley Museum are just a week away from launching a major new art exhibition of national significance. For the first time ever the museum will be displaying works from national collections to tell the story of The Macdonald Sisters. The exhibition opens on Monday 17 May, celebrating the four sisters Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa Macdonald. Born into an unremarkab ...

Making Kidderminster an attractive and welcoming town centre where people visit for longer is the focus of a new long term vision for the town. The Vision for Kidderminster 2040 looks set to be adopted by Wyre Forest District Council’s Cabinet on Wednesday 19 May. The Vision was drawn up following a consultation with residents and businesses in November 2020. It was produced by ...

The number of electors in the district who have requested a postal vote has significantly increased. Almost a fifth (18%) of people on the electoral register have requested a postal vote for the local elections being held on Thursday 6 May. The number of postal voters is a record 14,340 out of the 77,673 currently registered electors. The last time local elections were held in ...

Bewdley Museum is to stage a major new art exhibition next month, featuring works of national significance highlighting the lives of four extraordinary Victorian women. The Macdonald Sisters, due to open on Monday 17 May, tells the stories of Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa Macdonald. Born into an unremarkable Victorian family, they went on to forge connections with some of ...