
Season’s Greetings Review
An extended family combined with Christmas chaos, creates comedy gold in Season's Greetings at the New Vic theatre thanks to genius Alan Ayckbourn.
As Christmas Eve gets underway finishing touches to the decorations at Neville (Matt Addis)…

Community comes together for clean up mission
Staffordshire University and VINCI Construction UK recently joined forces with the Shelton Community Partnership to organise a socially distanced litter pick in a bid to help local community efforts to keep Shelton tidy.
The litter pick,…

Eric at the New Vic
The New Vic Theatre will open its doors to audiences for the first time this year, when David Graham Productions return to the stage with the popular character of ‘Eric’, in Third Time Lucky, Eric.
Opening from Monday 17 May and running…

More than 27,000 contacts made to 24-hour mental health support service
A 24-hour mental health helpline launched at the beginning of the second national coronavirus lockdown in November 2020 has now received 27,965* contacts from people needing support.
A total of 653* contacts made during the last six months…

Charity Fitness fundraiser in Newcastle-under-Lyme
New events have been added to a month-long fitness fundraiser in aid of a small charity which supports disadvantaged and vulnerable families in North Staffordshire.
A disco dance marathon and two charity swims are now taking place at Jubilee2…

Win a year’s supply of fruit and veg and support your community with Potto Lotto
Potto Lotto players could win one of three tasty prizes of fresh fruit and veg delivered directly to their door from Boxxfresh.
All players that have joined Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s online lottery by Saturday 26 June will be entered…

Over £1m of funding set to be granted to continue the children’s Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme
Following on from its previous success the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme is set to continue throughout 2021 and 2022.
Over 4,500 children were supported under the HAF activities in Stoke-on-Trent during Easter and now cabinet…

Foster carers share their stories as part of national campaign
Foster carers from across Staffordshire are leading a new campaign to help highlight the urgent need to find more foster families.
Every year, tens of thousands of children across the UK need someone to provide foster care and in Staffordshire…

WHY Baba Baboon? – with founder Sonya Farrall
Baba Baboon is all about Community, Business & Charity News in one... Here Creative Director & Founder of Baba Baboon, Sonya Farrall gives an insight into why...
Why the name? What is Baba Baboon? - questions which I have often been…

Bringing a Festival Guide to Newcastle-under-Lyme
The team behind events including Manchester Pride, the Elrow and UK Festival Awards are aiming to put Newcastle-under-Lyme on the map with a brand-new event.
Newcastle based events specialist GoTo Live are launching a four-day street food…

Charity Landau scoop prestigious Award – plus news on their We See You campaign
Stoke-on-Trent based charity Landau has received recognition at the highest level after being awarded a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
The charity, which has provided supported employment and training services to a range of individuals…
