Useful links: economy and labour market
Birmingham organisations
- Birmingham Community Safety Partnership: a local partnership of organisations undertaking crime reduction activities within Birmingham
- Birmingham Library Service: a range of online services and details of Birmingham libraries
- Birmingham Voluntary Service Council: BVSC is an independent charity, working with and on behalf of voluntary and community organisations in Birmingham
- BPS Birmingham: a private sector membership organisation which represents businesses from the professional, financial and business support sectors in the Birmingham area
- Business at the Library of Birmingham: the library’s free information, advice and planning service for starting up growing and developing businesses
- Business Support: initiatives and services offered by the council to encourage businesses into the area and support existing businesses
- Employment Access: matches Birmingham’s unemployed jobseekers to employer’s recruitment needs
- Economic zones: six economic zones established to maximise opportunities for economic growth in Birmingham
- Birmingham City Centre Enterprise Zone: 26 sites across the city centre offering growth potential
- Birmingham Public Health: health profiles of Birmingham, its wards and constituencies
- Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce: a membership organisation for local businesses offering a range of services and events
- Meet Birmingham: promotes the City as a conference and events venue
- Visit Birmingham: the official tourism site for Birmingham
Other sources of information
- The Bank of England: a range of publications on aspects of the national economy
- Companies House: incorporates and dissolves limited companies and stores company information delivered under the Companies Act
- Core Cities Group: draws together the city councils of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield to develop a vision of the distinctive role that big cities must play in national and regional economic development
- Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP): a partnership of businesses, local authorities and universities which supports private sector growth and job creation
- National Online Manpower Information System (NOMIS): official labour market statistics down to SOA level
- Neighbourhood statistics: official statistics at a local level
- West Midlands Combined Authority: 17 local authorities and three local enterprise partnerships working together to move powers from Whitehall to the West Midlands and locally elected politicians.