Coventry won the title for UK City of Culture 2021! We’re so proud and ready for our city to take centre stage and show the world what Coventry has to offer! According to Coventry Telegraph, Coventry tourism could grow by a third on the back winning the bid. Find out more about City of Culture on our website. The City of Culture competition is held every four years and the winner is given the prestigious title for 12 months with opportunities to run a host of arts and cultural activities. Coventry University is a principal partner and was bid sponsor for the City of Culture 2021 project. The world will be watching Coventry in 2021. Home to rich history, ancient legends and an abundance of unique arts and culture, Coventry has an exciting future as the UK City of Culture 2021 and a host city for the Commonwealth Games 2022. Coventry is just one hour from London by train and with great transport links to surrounding areas, our central location makes the city an ideal.

Sunday 3^rd July will be a special day in Coventry this year, as after around 18 months of hard work, the city’s bid to become City of Culture 2021 will be officially launched – and will do so in style!

The launch will take place at Godiva Festival, and will be a celebration of the artistic and cultural life of the city with live performances all day long.

Dr. Geoff Willcocks, Coventry University’s Director of Arts and Culture, is heavily involved in the bid, and UnCOVered caught up with him to find out what’s been going on behind the scenes, and how we can all get involved!

“I’ve worked at Coventry University for fourteen years now, and during most of that time I have been concerned with the cultural dynamic of the city. Recently, I’ve been involved in creating a cultural map of the city, an audit or survey of everything that happens in our city.”

“When I started putting the survey together, I genuinely thought that I knew everything and everyone in the city that was concerned with culture or the arts. I could not have been proved more wrong!”

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“In the early stages, on a daily occurrence I would find new parts of the city’s life that I previously knew nothing about. Groups, individuals, even entire art forms revealed themselves the deeper I dug. And the deeper I dug, the more I realised that while we often talk about the amazing diversity of our city, the picture that was emerging was even richer, more varied, and more vibrant that I had ever imagined.”

“Coventry really is a global city and the testament to our long and proud history of welcoming people since the medieval period is clear to see in the current life of the city.

“While I think the word ‘unique’ is often overused, in this case I believe it to be true. Coventry has a unique blend of global cultures, which influences everything from our food to our music.”

“I look forward to see you on Sunday July 3^rd for what promises to be a cracking day!”

Here are a few more nuggets of information about how you can support or get involved in Coventry’s City Of Culture bid!

• Over the next year as we move towards the deadline for submitting the bid to become City of Culture 2021, there will be many opportunities for you to get involved.
• If you haven’t already done so make sure that you sign up to CU Student Volunteering as opportunities will be advertised, so keep your eyes peeled!
• At the moment volunteers are wanted to help out on the Bid Launch day at the Godiva Festival (Sunday 3rd July).
• If you are interested in volunteering, visit the Coventry 2021 website or contact Juliet Colley – Juliet.Colley@coventry2021.co.uk (Bid Assistant at the Coventry City of Culture Trust.)
• Of course, another important way in which you can help back the bid is by using the POWER of social media!
• Whether you’re on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, you can keep up to date with the Bid team and events happening in Coventry.

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Coventry Marmot City Evaluation 2020

Coventry is a city with significant inequalities in health and healthy life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas of the city. In 2010-12, inequality in male life expectancy at birth was 11.2 years between the highest and lowest income deciles whilst, using the same data, inequality in female life expectancy at birth was 8.4 years. Publication of the Marmot Review was followed by the Health and Social Care Act in 2012, which legislated for the move of public health functions in England from the NHS to local government. In 2013, being aware of local inequalities, and as it took on its new public health duties, Coventry City Council decided to adopt the title of Marmot City and sought to apply local powers of the Council and partner organisations to pursuing the Marmot policy objectives.

This report provides an independent evaluation of the six years that Coventry has been a Marmot City. It was conducted by a Specialist Public Health Registrar with advice and input from Coventry City Council and University College London’s Institute of Health Equity. The evaluation also made use of Public Health England’s (PHE) Health and Wellbeing team’s knowledge and resources in the early stages when a memorandum of understanding was agreed between PHE, Coventry and UCL.

This report examines how Coventry has applied the Marmot Review recommendations. It seeks to inform future developments in Coventry and provide information and insight for other areas. It draws on interviews with senior 3 stakeholders, analysis of numerous strategies, evaluations and other local documents, and data based on indicators agreed by the organisations that have overseen this evaluation.

The six policy objectives recommended in the Marmot Review to reduce the social gradient in health are often referred to as the ‘Marmot Principles’ and include:

• Give every child the best start in life

• Enable all children, young people and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives

• Create fair employment and good work for all

• Ensure a healthy standard of living for all

• Create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities

• Strengthen the role and impact of ill-health prevention

The overarching approach to delivery recommended across all these policy areas is proportionate universalism, the idea that services should be provided universally but with a scale and intensity that is proportionate to the level of disadvantage.

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View the 2019 Director of Public Health Annual Report focusing on ‘Bridging the Health Gap'.