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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Returning services to support residents as lockdown restrictions ease

Various public services and country parks across Staffordshire are re-opening as part of a "mapping" out return by Staffordshire County Council. Libraries, household waste recycling centres and country parks are among those looking to restore…
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Project to upgrade County’s street lights

A project to update thousands of Staffordshire street lights that will use less energy and save money is underway. Staffordshire County Council is replacing 47,000 conventional bulbs with LED lighting after taking out an interest-free loan…
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New Urban Quarter plans for Stoke-on-Trent

An exciting new urban quarter is to be developed at the Swift House site - near to Stoke-on-Trent's railway station. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is working with award-winning social impact developer Capital & Centric – the stars of…
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Hanley Town Football Club offering community Covid-19 testing

Hanley Town Football Club is to become the latest venue in Stoke-on-Trent to host COVID-19 rapid result testing for residents. The community testing centre will begin on Saturday 30 January, at the club and will be open seven days a week,…
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Public consultation to shape masterplan

A public consultation exercise has begun, the results of which will drive major improvements in housing, highways and sports provision for residents in Knutton. Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is asking residents, businesses and partner…
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New chair for Stoke-on-Trent Health and Wellbeing Board

Councillor Abi Brown, leader of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, has been appointed as the new chair for the Stoke-on-Trent Health and Wellbeing Board. The role is to help to ensure health services provided by a range of organisations are tailored…
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Further £50,000 of funding for Stoke-on-Trent Voluntary and community groups

Voluntary and community groups (VCS) across the city are to benefit from a further £50,000 of funding to help them provide crucial services to residents through the coronavirus pandemic. The initiative follows a previous successful grant…
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Further support grant available for Stoke-on-Trent based businesses

Stoke-on-Trent businesses are set to receive a further grant to help them through the coronavirus pandemic, under phase two of the ‘Additional Restrictions Grant’. This comes as phase one of the fund saw a total of £266,488 allocated…
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Mental Health Helpline 24/7

A mental health helpline set up in response to the second national lockdown caused by the COVID 19 pandemic has received more than 11,000 calls since it first began operating at the beginning of November 2020. During December 2020 helpline…
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New Lockdown Business Grants welcomed by Borough Council

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is poised to act quickly to distribute one-off top up grants designed to help borough businesses through the latest Coronavirus restrictions. The Government has announced that businesses in the retail, hospitality…
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More than £11m to Transform Newcastle-under-Lyme Town Centre

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council has secured more than £11million in a landmark bid to change the shape of the town centre. The news is the result of a successful bid by the Council to the Future High Streets Fund and has been warmly…
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