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Birmingham's bright 2026 future
In September, the BBC’s Nikki Tapper and youngsters from the Youth Parliament and Young Enterprise will launch Birmingham’s new sustainable community strategy, Birmingham 2026: Our vision for the future. The vision will set out the long-term ambitions the city hopes to aspire to and achieve during the next 18 years.

Our new community strategy is vital to the success of our city and that of the UK as a whole. It is based upon firm evidence, reflecting what local people and organisations have said were the biggest issues for the city over the next two decades.
Launching the new strategy
Be Birmingham, the city’s local strategic partnership which is responsible for the vision, aims to ultimately create the opportunities which will allow current and future generations to fulfil their potential and ambitions. 

Birmingham 2026 is based upon a 12-week consultation in which almost 1,300 people had their say on what they felt the city’s priorities should be in the coming years. Their views have formed the basis of this vision.

However, creating the vision is only the first step to delivering positive change in Birmingham. Now all of Be Birmingham’s partners must ensure that by delivering the vision will give our citizens the opportunity to:

  • Succeed economically
  • Feel and stay safe in a clean and green city
  • Be healthy
  • Enjoy a high quality of life
  • Make a contribution to the society they live in

Be Birmingham (www.bebirmingham.org.uk) brings together organisations from the business, community, voluntary, faith and public sectors. Each partner has a duty and responsibility to deliver certain aspects of Birmingham 2026 which collectively will ensure the vision is achieved. These responsibilities are set out in the vision’s delivery plan, the Local Area Agreement (LAA) which will be reviewed every three years until 2026.

Birmingham 2026 will be launched at Be Birmingham’s inaugural summit on 17th September at the Town Hall. For more information please contact natascha.bowett@birmingham.gov.uk or visit www.bebirmingham.org.uk.

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