Entries by Baba

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#StokeonTrentTogether continuing support

A year on since the first national lockdown, 20,500 calls have been made to the #StokeonTrentTogether helpline with 140,000 proactive welfare calls made to 30,000 households across the city. #StokeonTrentTogether was formed by Stoke-on-Trent City Council working alongside local charity and voluntary sector organisation VAST in March 2020, and was designed to meet the everyday […]

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Gladstone Pottery Museum to star in Sherlock Holmes spin-off TV series

Scenes shot in the stunning Gladstone Pottery Museum will appear in an eagerly-anticipated new series on Netflix. Crews were at the award-winning Stoke-on-Trent site for more than two weeks in 2020 to capture footage for supernatural show The Irregulars, which is due to be released Friday, March 26. The museum in Longton, which was dressed […]

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Let’s Beat Loneliness Together

A new campaign to help tackle loneliness in Staffordshire has been launched. The new Let’s Beat Loneliness Together campaign aims to help raise awareness of loneliness and promote services available to those affected by it. The campaign by, Staffordshire County Council, will also support those individuals or volunteers who want to do something themselves to […]

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Look Out – Road Safety Campaign

‘Look Out’ is a new road safety campaign urging cyclists and motorists to be more courteous and to look out for each other. The latest campaign from the Staffordshire Safer Roads Partnership (SSRP) aims to help reduce the number of collisions involving cyclists within Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. Drivers are being asked to look out for […]

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Making women’s football a level playing field

A new project is aiming to break the last taboos in women’s football from periods to pregnancy – and Staffordshire University is calling on women’s football clubs across the UK to help identify best practices which can be shared across Europe. Dr Jacky Forsyth, Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology at Staffordshire University, explained: “We know […]

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Theatre of Football project to tackle racism and unite communities

A powerful county-wide project to tackle racism and unite communities through the power of football and the arts has been launched. It’s Not As Simple As Black and White – launched by New Vic Borderlines, Port Vale FC Foundation Trust, Sporting Communities CIC and Mackman Group – will work with groups of young people across […]

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Hanley Town Hall lighting up purple in celebration of Census 2021

Hanley Town Hall will join more than a hundred buildings and landmarks across England and Wales by lighting up purple to celebrate the upcoming census and its importance to communities. The event is being organised by The Office for National Statistics (ONS) to raise awareness of census day on March 21, a survey that happens […]

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Staffordshire Day to feature first County-wide Film Competition

Organisers of the sixth annual Staffordshire Day have launched a county-wide film competition as part of this year’s celebrations. Film-makers from Staffordshire and beyond are being encouraged, by Enjoy Staffordshire, Staffordshire County Council and the county’s other local authorities, to enter the Staffordshire Day Film Competition. Any movie which promotes the county can be submitted, […]

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