Residents have been trained to offer energy saving advice to their friends and neighbours in an innovative community programme. Staffordshire Housing Association and energy advisory services Beat the Cold and NEA (National Energy Action) have used money donated by energy company E.ON to develop an energy advice service and a network of volunteers, offering energy savings support to over 300 …

  Interviews and Photo opportunity: Toddlers and parents from Stoke-on-Trent Children’s Centres at the New Vic Theatre’s Tale Trail to The Hundred and One Dalmatians workshops, the New Vic Theatre, Etruria Road, Newcastle, ST5 0JG.  Time: 10am Wednesday, 18 December, 2013. An arts programme designed to capture the interest of mums, dads and carers will culminate with a chance to participate …

Creative North Staffordshire companies joined forces to help Sir Bobby Charlton’s landmine research charity to put on a major awards ceremony. PR agency Howle Communications works with Find A Better Way on its media and communications.  And when a series of videos were needed to help tell the story for Find A Better Way’s £1,000,000 awards competition dinner, Howle Communications’ …

Staffordshire and Cheshire residents are being asked to abandon their homes for one night to take part in the annual Arch charity Mega Sleep Out. Hundreds of people are expected to take part in the annual event which raises funds and awareness of homelessness. A midnight walk has also been organised by Arch as part of the Mega Sleep Out …

Two young men who risked being homeless at Christmas will now have a roof over their heads thanks to a scheme launched by a Staffordshire charity. Ben Sheppard, 25, and Zak Machin, 21, expected to spend the festive season in hostels before they contacted Arch. Ben, who hails from Bristol, moved back to Stoke-on-Trent earlier this year to be closer …