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Businesses instructed to close through the coronavirus lockdown will be able to apply for £4.2m of funding. Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been allocated a total of £4,192,488 through the government’s Local Restrictions Support Grant. The money will be available to businesses such as those in the hospitality, leisure, non-essential retail and personal care sectors. Council […]
Staffordshire-based Legionnaires’ Disease experts SAS Water Ltd is advising hotels, holiday parks and spas to ensure water safety is a priority as the new Covid-19 lockdown and the start of winter causes closures. Working with a luxury lodge park in East Anglia, SAS Water’s legionella consultants have doubled flushing regimes for the park’s lodges, along […]
Lifelong carer Peter Norman, from Nantwich, has been appointed general manager at Belong Newcastle-under-Lyme after leading the dementia specialist care village through Covid-19. Peter’s passion for caring for others began at the age of 11, when he became a family carer for his late great-grandmother. He has since built a career in social care that […]
The shortlist has been revealed for an annual book prize which will see one North Staffordshire author win £500. Actress turned playwright Deb McAndrew, former teacher Peter Cash, creative writing lecturer Lisa Blower and academic John Shapcott are all in the running for this year’s Arnold Bennett Prize. The annual book award was established in […]
A Staffordshire Moorlands financial services company has backed grass roots junior football by sponsoring under-14s girls football at Leek Town Lightning. Beta Commercial Finance has bought new home and away kits for the team which plays in League One of the Staffordshire League. Tom Wilkinson, Managing Director, at Alton-based Beta Commercial Finance, said: “I know […]
Remembrance Sunday will look very different this year, with residents being asked to remember our armed forces heroes at home – as social distancing measures mean that parades and services have been called off. This year, as with most things, the 102nd anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War, has had to adapt, […]
A new exhibition capturing the places and spaces close to people’s hearts in Stoke-on-Tren has opened in Longton Exchange. Falling for The City – created by Potboiler Theatre – features portraits of local people in the places that mean the most to them, from Spode Works to Longton Central Methodist Hall and places in between. […]
Volunteers at one of the most complete former colliery sites in Europe are celebrating after securing funding from the Covid-19 Emergency Heritage at Risk Response Fund. The historic Chatterley Whitfield Colliery will benefit from a £22,500 boost after Stoke-on-Trent City Council was successful with a bid to the Historic England fund, which is giving out […]
A fun filled Halloween Fancy Dress competition is open to visitors at one of Stoke-on-Trent’s leading attractions. Visitors are invited to take part in a Fancy Dress Competition at Trentham Monkey Forest – which runs until 1 November. After what has been a spooky and strange year all round, the attraction, home to 140 free-roaming […]
A Stoke on Trent art gallery has collaborated with a Potteries born artist to showcase art in a new dimension. Barewall Art Gallery – which specialises in British fine art and ceramics connected with Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire – has launched a series of jigsaws displaying work by watercolour artist Geoffrey Wynne RI. Various designs on […]
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