The Coventry Partnership

The Coventry Partnership brings together senior representatives from the community sector, private sector, public sector and voluntary sector to work together towards the vision for Coventry to be a growing, accessible city where people choose to live, work and be educated and where businesses choose to invest.

See the latest Partnership news bulletin:

Winter 2011 bulletin

Coventry Partnership Conference 2011

The Coventry Partnership Conference took place at the Coventry Techno Centre on Monday 5th December, 2011, with 200 people from across the Partnership and local colleges and schools in attendance.

One of the key aims of the conference was to promote the agreed priorities of the Coventry Partnership which include four objectives:

• To create growth, jobs and enterprise (particularly through advanced manufacturing and green technologies)
• To make the city more vibrant
• To reduce health inequalities
• To improve Children & Young People's education and opportunities

The conference focus was on the above areas with the aim of 'raising achievement and celebrating opportunities of post 16+ in Coventry.

For more details visit the Conference page on this website

Careers event for 16 - 24 year olds

Over 1,000 young people attended the "Your Choice, Your Future" event on Thursday 15th December where combined advice on training, education and employment with some potential job opportunities were available. The Coventry Partnership teamed up with the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) in response to concerns around increasing levels of youth unemployment. You can find out more details here on the Careers Fair

Proud of my City

The Proud of my City campaign is your opportunity to get involved, to make a difference in preparing Coventry for London 2012. Whether it’s taking part in a street clean-up, your own community fun-day, becoming a Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator or just coming into the city to enjoy its attractions and the new Broadgate the Proud of my City website is your one-stop shop for more information on how you can get involved.

For more information go to www.proudofmycity.org.uk  

New Domestic Violence and Abuse website launched for the Community safety Partnership

A pioneering new website, www.safetotalk.org.uk from the Coventry Domestic Violence and Abuse Partnership has being launched to support both victims and perpetrators in Coventry

Reducing the number of victims of domestic violence and abuse has been identified as the top community safety issue for Coventry by the Coventry Community Safety Partnership. Overall violence has reduced significantly over the last 18 month as a result of the multi-agency "Not in my City" campaign. However, domestic violence and abuse still accounts for 31% of all violence in the City. For more information, see the news release