Entries by Baba

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Activities for all at Christmas

Festive Activities and much more in Stoke-on-Trent…   Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Call and collect gift shop service. Choose from a wide range of items online and call the museum on 01782 232323 to order, pay and arrange a safe location to collect outside the museum. Staff also offer a post and package service […]

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Online Christmas activities plus Festive gifts

Museums and libraries in Stoke-on-Trent are providing a host of festive online activities, services and shopping opportunities to help families mark the run up to Christmas. The buildings may be temporarily closed to the public because of current Covid restrictions, but there are lots of alternative opportunities to entertain the family, as well as pick up some […]

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Christmas Guide by Phoebe

‘Tis the Festive Season and here Phoebe Phillips shares her thoughts on things to do this year in Staffordshire… Santa is out of elf-isolation & is coming to Stone! Until the 20th December you can witness Mr Claus in his magical sleigh. The 2020 Stone Round Table Father Christmas sleigh tour dates are: Thursday 17th […]

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Volunteering and how it helped me – Guest Blog Steve Bourn

Emmaus North Staffs – work to help prevent homelessness. The charity own and manage Emmaus Furniture Mine and offer various volunteering opportunities. Here Steve Bourn shares his story on how volunteering with Emmaus North Staffs helped him and why he would encourage others to volunteer… “I had quite a good childhood and a decent family […]

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Staffordshire University widens its search for ‘Future Journalists’ with national competition

An annual competition which aims to discover the next generation of journalists and vloggers has launched at Staffordshire University. The Future Journalist Awards, which is open to young people aged seven to 18, is usually aimed at budding journalists from Staffordshire and the surrounding counties. However, as this year’s awards will be streamed online, the […]

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Baba Baboon – Sponsoring journalists of the Future 

A Staffordshire public relations and media company is supporting a competition which aims to discover the next generation of journalists from the UK. Baba Baboon is sponsoring an award at the Staffordshire University Future Journalist Awards – which for the first time are welcoming entrants nationwide. In recent years Baba Baboon’s Founder and Creative Director, […]

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Game On for Staffordshire University Students who take on 24 hour hackathon

Students from Staffordshire University joined forces with Stoke-on-Trent City Council and VX Fiber for a fast and furious virtual hackathon to generate concepts for a state-of-the-art gaming hub for Stoke-on-Trent. Under the guidance of senior academic staff, undergraduates from Graphics, Product Design, Education, Engineering, Computing, Games and Visual Effects at Staffordshire University took part in […]

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Active Travel Fund for Stoke-on-Trent

Walking and cycling facilities are set to be improved throughout Stoke-on-Trent thanks to Government funding. Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been awarded more than £600,000 from the Government to improve walking and cycling facilities in the city. The cash from the Department for Transport’s Active Travel Fund will improve infrastructure and help regenerate local economies after […]

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£556,000 already given to voluntary and community groups – And advice for supermarkets

Voluntary and community groups across the city are already benefiting from more than £500,000 of funding to help them provide crucial services to residents through the coronavirus, with more to follow. Stoke-on-Trent City Council has moved quickly to administer £556,552 in funding to the sector in government grants and its own community fund, in response […]

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Arnold Bennett Book Prize awarded to North Staffordshire’s Lisa Blower

A collection of short stories inspired by strong North Staffordshire women has been awarded this year’s Arnold Bennett Prize. It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s, written by Baddeley Green-born Lisa Blower, was revealed as the winner in an online ceremony. The book had been shortlisted alongside Deborah McAndrew’s play The D Road, Peter Cash’s poetry […]

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