The High Street Accelerator project is a pilot which is funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
£237k was awarded to Stoke Town through Stoke-on-Trent City Council to be spent in the financial year 2024/25.
The pilot project aims to bring together local authorities, residents, local businesses, and community organisations to work in partnership to develop and deliver projects to improve their town and create a long-term vision to regenerate Stoke Town Centre. It is an opportunity to test and trial new ways of working to revitalise the high street and to tackle vacant units.
To date 13 projects have been approved for funding through the Pilot project which are now being delivered.
Following the submission of an expression of interest an additional £500,000 has been awarded by the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities (DLUHC) for Green Space Funding to enable Accelerator partnerships to deliver projects to improve green spaces and parklets around Stoke Town Centres high street. To date 14 projects have been approved through the Greenspace funding the majority of which are now in delivery.
The businesses below are working with and received funding from the Stoke HSA Project. Please click each logo to read more.
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Baba2025-04-11 16:13:002025-04-11 18:58:26Litter Pick with Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
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Baba2025-04-08 13:44:482025-04-08 13:47:27Free Family Fun Easter Egg Hunt
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Baba2025-04-02 17:33:202025-04-02 17:33:20Volunteer applications open for Unique Stoke Project
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Baba2025-03-19 11:23:532025-03-19 11:24:20Stoke Square Saturday Series
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Baba2025-03-18 10:25:402025-03-18 10:25:40Bamboo Dome set for Stoke-on-Trent thanks to exciting collaboration
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Baba2025-03-04 17:50:382025-03-04 17:54:37Bird Walk and Bird Feeders eventB Arts (Beavers Arts ltd) is a combined and participatory arts organisation founded in 1985 with an artistic vision to produce high quality arts experiences with people from many different backgrounds who would not normally engage with the arts. B Arts aim to strengthen the cultural infrastructure in the area; increase the diversity and range of artists and producers working in the region, and offer quality and depth of engagement in the arts to all.
BCB develops, sustains and expands innovative ceramics practice and improves lives together with artists and creative communities. BCB deliver an engaging year-round programme of artist commissions, education and community projects – all of which feed into a biennial showcase of contemporary ceramics which takes place in Stoke-on-Trent.
Blossom Ladies Brunch CIC is a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering and educating ethnic minority women on personal and business growth through career conferences, business support webinars and education on financial literacy.
Blossom Ladies Brunch mission – to empower, educate and provide a network for ethnic minority women to build confidence, self-esteem and achieve their full potential in their personal development and business growth in the community.
Vision: To educate and promote the importance of personal growth, provide mentorship and employability training, supporting and publicising minority ethnic women businesses in the community.
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A North Staffordshire community interest company which aims to explore the use of bamboo for the benefit of communities and the planet is looking for land where they can create a small park.
Brilliant Bamboo was set up in 2023 by Gemma Thomas with a mission to marry the arts, communities and professionals from across the sectors in exploration and collaboration around growing, building, and creating from bamboo.
Brilliant Bamboo aim to develop environmentally positive projects that explore sustainable materials for people and the planet. We’re developing our organisation and projects all the time and we’ll be looking for you to be involved by coming along, taking part, volunteering, becoming a partner or collaborator, or as a funder.
https://brilliantbamboo.co.uk/
Spode Rose Garden is a Pocket Park located on the historic Spode factory site in Stoke Town. originally a garden space for the factory, the site gradually fell into disrepair until 2012 when AirSpace Gallery renovated a slice of the garden to act as a physical proposal for the renovation of the entire space.
Over the last 12 years, the garden has developed through a series of different stages. In 2015, which has seen the development and naming of a bespoke real hybrid tea rose – an old-type rose, fragrant and pure white – The Spode China Rose which can only be foiund here. in 2016, the garden was officially designated a Pocket Park, and we formed The Friends of Spode Rose Garden group, a team of volunteers who help to develop the garden and now maintain it and organise a program of events within the garden. In 2017, they took a physical design to the annual RHS Tatton Garden Show and won a Silver Gilt medal in the Blooming Borders section. This “Blue Italian” inspired border returned to Stoke and is now a permanent feature of the Garden.
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust is a wildlife charity which was established in 1969, and is dedicated to protecting the county’s wildlife and wild places. A leading conservation charity in Staffordshire with more than 45 nature reserves in the county, totalling over 1,980 hectares of land. Theywork with local land owners and partners to carry out conservation projects to create and restore habitats for wildlife and ensure wild creatures in the county have secure places to shelter, feed, and breed.
Host events to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to discover, enjoy, and care about the natural world.
https://www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk/
Access is a media-based Charity that runs a range activities involving audio/radio, video, social-media and web. Also operate a ‘Social Enterprise’ arm selling donated items on-line which helps to support the charity work. Based in Stoke Town Centre, Access Radio engages with the local community by providing work experience and training opportunities through activities and organising/supporting community events in the local area.
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