Jak Woolley A PERSONAL trainer is excited to be opening his own studio in his hometown of Halesowen. Jak Woolley, of Feldon Lane, runs JW Personal Training and is gearing up to open a studio on High Street, Halesowen. The 27-year-old has transformed an empty unit next to Acorn s Hospice charity shop in the town centre. It is ready and waiting for the PM s go-ahead for gyms to reopen on April 12. The dad-of-one thinks this is the perfect time to be opening his first premises and has signed a five-year lease on the unit, which he has fitted out. The studio
PREGNANT women sleeping in tents under arches, smartly dressed men with no jobs and no homes wandering the streets. Every week a dedicated group of volunteers from the Halesowen area come face to face with the growing problem of homelessness in the pandemic, The Reach Out Birmingham volunteers nearly all live in Halesowen, Cradley or Colley Gate, but it’s the centre of Birmingham they go every weekend because that’s where the homeless congregate. And, according to Jess Machin, there are more and more of them, and many of their cases are just ‘shocking.’ Normally the group would expect to see people, mainly men, aged 18-25.