Our mission is to create better living environments in the Midlands region. We take this matter seriously to the extent that we have developed the idea of The Jessup Lectures where we invite leaders in all aspects of the built environment, design, architecture, sustainability, housing and urban landscape, to speak and bring new ideas and wider focus to the debate on the future of land use and urban regeneration and development. Speakers so far include environmentalist Professor David Bellamy and George Ferguson,

Past President of The Royal Institute of British Architects. 
We hold these lectures at the New Art gallery Walsall, an internationally renowned architectural icon and an example of a cultural building being the catalyst to urban regeneration.