Event Type : Drinks Reception

Join the Centre for the New Midlands for our Reimagining the Region Spring Reception, to be held at Arcadis, 103 Colmore Row, Birmingham on Thursday 19th March from 5pm – 8pm. This session has been generously sponsored and curated by Arcadis.

Powered with drinks and nibbles, this reception will provide our members with the opportunity to workshop ideas responding to the challenges and opportunities of the region – from a design perspective – and think about how we bring the recently launched West Midlands Growth Plan to life.

This event has been carefully created for all members of our network to engage with and enjoy – you do not need to have ANY design experience. What you do need to have is experience of what it is like to live, work, play or study in the West Midlands region – and a passion to explore what a ‘better’ West Midlands can look like.

‘Imagine a world where the built environment not only adapts to the challenges of climate change, urbanization, and technological disruption but thrives because of them.  A world where architecture and engineering are not just reactive disciplines but proactive forces shaping a sustainable, equitable, and innovative future’.

This is the vision that drove Arcadis to launch ‘The Design Perspective’, its inaugural design forecast.  Copies of the full report can be downloaded by clicking here.

This session will consider some of the key questions associated with how we design cities for the future, maximising the use of assets for communities and ensuring that our built environment solutions are both sustainable and economically viable.

Please note that this event is strictly for Members of our Reimagining the Region network (full and associate).

Bookings for this event can be made by visiting our event registration page

If your organisation is not yet a member of our network, please visit our membership pages to join.  Annual rates start from £450 + VAT – we look forward to welcoming you.  Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact chris@thenewmidlands.org.uk 

Join the Centre for the New Midlands for our Reimagining the Region Summer Reception, to be held in Birmingham on Thursday 4th June from 5pm – 8.30pm.

We are delighted to be welcoming Ed Cox (Chief Executive, West Midlands Combined Authority) as our guest speaker for the evening.

Following the discussion with our speaker – hosted in a fireside chat format – our delegates will be served a Thai buffet and have the opportunity to network over drinks in Chaophraya Birmingham.

Please note that this event is for Members of our Reimagining the Region network. Tickets are available for non-members to purchase, but this event is primarily aimed at our members’ network.

For further information on our current members list, please visit our website.   If your organisation is not yet a member of our network, please click here for more information and to join!  Annual rates start from £475 + VAT – we look forward to welcoming you.  Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact chris@thenewmidlands.org.uk

We are delighted to be returning to Edgbaston Stadium for Connections for Prosperity 2026  – the conference for how we shape an ‘even’ better West Midlands for all. 

#CFP26 is the Centre for the New Midlands’ Annual Conference and will bring together 300 of the West Midlands’ key stakeholders including business and community leaders, politicians, policymakers and academics to discuss and debate the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the region.

Key themes will include housing, devolution, the digital environment, transport, infrastructure, the skills agenda and crucially, the focus is solely on how we build an even ‘better’ West Midlands region for all.

As the only not for profit, non partisan and independent think tank for the West Midlands, we can we can ask the questions that others can’t. We can set the agenda for discussion in such a way that others may find difficult to do. Tickets will go on sale for THE policy conference for the West Midlands on 1st April.

If you and your organisation are interested in sponsoring this key event for the region, please contact Chris Smith via email (chris@thenewmidlands.org.uk)