Josiah Wedgwood has been announced as the keynote speaker at the first event staged by a group of creative businesses based in Stoke-on-Trent.
By Wendy Dean, Group CEO Strategi Solutions and Strategi Global Having worked as an Exec leader and board member for more than 20 years across global companies of varying sizes, I’ve seen first-hand the journeys businesses go on to achieve growth. Those journeys are rarely smooth, and the way businesses
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Staffordshire digger giant JCB‘s community team and Stoke-on-Trent charity The Hubb Foundation brought a day of free professional stage performances to a community in the city as the highlight of their second half-term Hubb Holidays scheme this week. The two organisations joined forces with Newcastle’s New Vic to bring the theatre’s Stoke the Fiery Dragon interactive show and fun workshop to Bentilee’s St Maria Goretti Primary School – entertaining more than 50 youngsters. Stoke the Fiery
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The hunt is on to find 10 Stoke-on-Trent ceramics workers whose skills and stories can help protect the city’s world-renowned industrial heritage for future generations.
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Stoke-on-Trent’s ceramics industry has received a second major boost in less than a week, with tile production set to return to the city through a new low-carbon manufacturing partnership. Johnson Tiles is working with materials technology company Dekiln to scale up a kiln-free, low-energy alternative to traditional ceramic tiles, with
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Staffordshire business leaders are stepping up pressure on government and National Highways to deliver long-awaited improvements to the A50/A500 corridor, warning that further delays risk undermining a nationally significant route at the heart of the UK’s road network. Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce has written to Jacob Collier, MP for Burton
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University of Staffordshire Director of Commercial Strategy Martin Tideswell on why actively “bigging up” the area where we live and work – Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire – has big picture benefits. I want to talk about place… and why I’m always banging the drum for Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. On social media
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The National Forest Adventure Farm, in Tatenhill, Burton, which attracts over 175,000 visitors a year, is marking its 15th anniversary with a fun-filled half term celebration. With plans to introduce two new Farm Nights in August with live music, wildflower picking and street food stalls as well as a new
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Dr Colin Rigby, Reader and Director of Enterprise at Keele University, is an academic with long standing links to the Staffordshire ceramics sector, where he worked in manufacturing of sanitary ware and conducted a number of high-profile research projects in manufacturing innovation with the industry Research Technology Organisation. When the national
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Foodies in Staffordshire have a new opportunity to help shape the future of innovative chef Cris Cohen’s latest venture.
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Award-winning Stoke-on-Trent chef Cris Cohen is taking his exclusive H I D D E N dining experience to Stone Food & Drink Festival for the first time.
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