| WECA becomes WEMCA - December 2025 / January 2026 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 15:26, 9th January 2026 |     |
I have today discovered that the West of England Combined Authority has recently renamed itself as the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority.
There has been no public announcement of this change, so far as I am aware, and the WECA website - https://www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/ - makes no specific reference to the change.
However, as it has apparently happened, I have updated our Coffee Shop forum 'abbreviations & acronyms' page, at https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/acronyms.html to include expansions and links to 'WECA' and 'WEMCA' - they are interchangeable - in the interests of clarity here.
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| Re: WECA becomes WEMCA - December 2025 / January 2026 Posted by stuving at 18:05, 9th January 2026 | |
There was a rather silly FoI exchange on this. The response says:
The legal name of the Authority is set out in the West of England Combined
Authority Order 2017 as “the West of England Combined Authority”.
The legal name has not been changed. There is therefore no correspondence
to HM Government requesting the change of the name of the authority.
Authority Order 2017 as “the West of England Combined Authority”.
The legal name has not been changed. There is therefore no correspondence
to HM Government requesting the change of the name of the authority.
WEMCA is a branding. There is a bit more information about them being upset that they have so little public recognition (a common problem!). So there was a relaunch of the new branding in December with new logos. However, their use of the WEMCA name throughout, even before it was made public, makes it impossible to know whether December was the public launch of the name or a relaunch!
| Re: WECA becomes WEMCA - December 2025 / January 2026 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 18:50, 9th January 2026 | |
However, their use of the WEMCA name throughout, even before it was made public, makes it impossible to know whether December was the public launch of the name or a relaunch!
Thanks, stuving. It wasn't just me, wasting my valuable time trying to work out what happened, then. I'll expand the heading of this topic accordingly. Image not available to guests
| Re: WECA becomes WEMCA - December 2025 / January 2026 Posted by stuving at 21:49, 9th January 2026 | |
The launch of the WEMCA branding was in December 2024, which I missed. That date agrees with what Wikipedia says. I don't think you need to feel any shame if you missed it completely!
