Our resident partners are Birmingham Royal Ballet, formerly Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, who came to the city in 1990 Post Business Awards; International Dance Festival Birmingham won the Gold Award as Event of the Year in the Heart of England Excellence in Tourism Awards; and our Chief Executive, Stuart Griffiths, won the Special Award at Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Awards North & Midlands) With 500,000 visitors per year it is important that we are committed to the environment