Free Blacksmithing Workshops
Ever wanted to try your hand at blacksmithing? Join us for a FREE Blacksmith Experience Day and learn some of the traditional metalworking skills that have been used for thousands of years. Under expert guidance, you’ll experience the heat, tools and techniques of a working forge — and you’ll take home your own hand‑forged creations […]
Staffordshire Moorlands Community Social Action Grant
An exciting new grant is now available. This fund is designed to help grassroots organisations run community activities or projects that bring people together and lead to improved community cohesion within the Staffordshire Moorlands. Support Staffordshire is delivering the Community Social Action Grant funded by the UK Government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund on behalf […]
The Chain Reaction Project
Community is at the heart of all we do at Support Staffordshire. We strive to create links between key individuals and groups within areas across the county to support them in working collaboratively to ensure their own communities can thrive. A fantastic example of this is the Chain Reaction Project based in the Staffordshire Moorlands, […]
Base for your charity/organisation in Leek?
There may be a group, charity or organisation that would value a home or base in the centre of Leek? Trinity Church in Derby Street has premises on Russell Street which are now vacant. Once a Victorian school room and now divided into separate office and counselling booths, the centre has its own entrance, kitchen, […]
Introducing Support Staffordshire’s new Head of Operations – North Staffordshire: Baz Tameez
I am delighted to have been appointed as the New Head of Operations at Support Staffordshire. I am passionate about working with people and communities. I have been responsible for the strategic focus and delivery of Healthwatch Staffordshire and built good relationships with key partners to ensure the public voice is heard at all levels […]
North Staffordshire Environment Fund – New Grants Programme Now Open!
Are you: – Part of an organisation based in or working in Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme or the Staffordshire Moorlands AND – Delivering projects to create a healthier and more environmentally sustainable future? If so, you may be eligible to apply for a grant of up to £5,000. Grants are available for projects that have positive outcomes for […]
We Love The Moorlands – Community Foundation for Staffordshire
We Love The Moorlands is a local place based fund that was established in 2009 and provides small grants to a wide range of projects working in the Staffordshire Moorlands. In April 2021, the fund was launched and holds two rounds of funding spread throughout the year to award funding to local community organisations. Grants […]
Adult Community Mental Health
The Community Mental Health Framework for Young Adults and Older Adults (CMHF) model means that NHS community mental health services will be developed with community organisation working together in a seamless way, with people who use services at the centre of service provision and much more involved in their own care and support. The aim […]
Support Staffordshire’s Volunteering Team needs you!
We have some volunteer roles available within our Volunteering Team – could one of them be the perfect role for you? We need Volunteer Advisors who are happy to chat to volunteers to find out what skills and experiences they have and use this information to match them to available volunteering roles. This is a […]
New Volunteering Roles at Read Easy UK
Read Easy UK is a charity which offers free one to one coaching for adults who struggle to read. Most of us take reading for granted, but 2.4 million adults in England alone cannot read at all or can barely read. Read UK’s vision is for all adults in the UK to have the literacy […]