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“Light up Your Life”: Stop smoking campaign launches across ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ and Solihull

The ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ and Solihull Tobacco Control Alliance has launched a campaign to help you light up your life, by giving up smoking.

Published 25th February 2025.

• Creating an Active ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ

  ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ are publishing a consultation on the Draft Creating an Active ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ Strategy.

  Published 20th November 2023.

• Supporting cities to improve food justice

  In 2021, ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ launched the Global Food Justice Pledge (GFJP) at the 7th Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) Global Forum.

  

  Published 24th September 2023.

• Fast Track City partners unveils ‘Red Ribbons’ AIDS and HIV Memorial

  ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ’s Fast Track City partners are set to unveil a memorial to honour those lost to AIDS and living with HIV.

  Published 30th November 2022.

• Council encourages more physical movement in August’s fitness challenge

  We’ve joined in a national campaign with WeActive and our local NHS partners to get active this August. We want you to join us, whether you are a bin man, a social worker in moving more.

  Published 29th July 2022.

• Dr David Nabarro headline speaker at international summit on sustainable food futures at ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ 2022

  Trade summit focussed on healthy and sustainable food futures to take place at UK House.

  Published 19th July 2022.

• ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ and Solihull support new plan to make smoking obsolete by 2030

  Organisations across ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ and Solihull today welcomed the publication of the Khan Independent Review into Smokefree 2030 policies and support the review’s four key recommendations:

  Published 15th June 2022.

• ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ and Solihull residents encouraged to use local parent resources for infant mental health

  Inaugural Infant Mental Health Awareness Week (IMHAW) 13 to 19 June, seeks to highlight the importance of babies’ mental health as well as the surrounding issues that affect it.

  Published 10th June 2022.

• Innovative partnership between two councils to tackle health inequalities within Black communities

  ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ and Lewisham Councils have jointly published a ground-breaking report identifying 39 ways to tackle health inequalities faced by people of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage.

  Published 6th June 2022.

• Coronavirus statement - 13 February 2020

  ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ is working closely with the local NHS and Public Health England to monitor the emerging global situation.

  Published 13th February 2020.

• Improving health and wellbeing for people in ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ and Solihull

  The following statement is from Mark Rogers, System Leader, ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ and Solihull STP and Chief Executive, ºÚÁÏÊÓƵ

  Published 24th October 2016.