Sophie Owner of IL Capo Barbiere based in Newcastle-under-Lyme is in the spotlight in our new series Meet The Local Business which features the person behind some of your favourite locally owned business.  Tell Us A Little Bit About You.   My name is Sophie, I'm 33 and I'm from Newcastle-under-Lyme right in the town centre. […]

Connor Owner of Volcanic Potions based in Stoke-on-Trent is in the spotlight in our new series Meet The Local Business which features the person behind some of your favourite locally owned business.  Tell Us A Little Bit About You.   My name is Connor, I'm 26 and I'm from Smallthorne in Stoke-on-Trent and I am a […]

The next episode of our Meet The Local Business is with Cameron from Flux and Co Barbershop Tell us a bit a bit about you. I'm Cameron, I'm twenty four and I run Flux and Co Barbershop here in Newcastle-under-Lyme, We've been here since the end of October 202. I originally opened in King Street […]

Mark from Eggettes Kitchen in Newcastle-under-Lyme is in the spotlight in our new series Meet The Local Business featuring the person behind some of your favourite locally owned business.  Mark owns and runs a bubble waffle and bubble tea cafe. They make bubble waffles, street waffles, bubble tea, milk teas and fruit teas in a […]

It’s BACK… The Lymelight Festival in Newcastle-under-Lyme is back after a two years break because of covid. Based in the heart of the town centre it offers a fun filled Bank Holiday Weekend from Saturday 30th April to Sunday 1st May. With live music from lots of local bands, this festival is all about promoting […]

Paul Wilcock from Paul's Portraits based in Tarporley in Cheshire is in the spotlight in our new series Meet The Local Business featuring the person behind some of your favourite locally owned business.  Paul is a premium level professional branding photographer and helps business owners not just be seen but be noticed by creating a […]

Laura, Owner of Flying Teaspoons based in Stoke-on-Trent is in the spotlight in our new series Meet The Local Business featuring the person behind some of your favourite locally owned business.  Laura makes greetings cards, wall art, cushions and coasters. Inspired by her love of Stoke-on-Trent and the local dialect her work reflects many of […]

Darren, Owner of Dreams To Goals and Darren Brookes Life Coach based in Stoke-on-Trent is in the spotlight in our new series Meet The Local Business featuring the person behind some of your favourite locally owned business.  Tell us what a life coach is and what you do.A life coach is someone who helps you […]

Jamal, Owner of Vagabonds Barbers based in Baddeley Green in Stoke-on-Trent is in the spotlight in our new series Meet The Local Business featuring the person behind some of your favourite locally owned business.  Tell us about you and your business.Vagabonds has been going for three years and we came up with the name with […]

Ok, so it's official we've started a new series featuring the person behind some of your favourite locally owned business. It will give us all an insight of what it's like to run and own your own business. Especially the trials and tribulations of what it means to be an entrepreneur and how we must […]

Local communities are built around resourceful and reliable local businesses that provide services and sell goods such as shops, beauty salons, restaurants and bars places to take your family to have fun and socialise. Local businesses can offer so much more than the products that they sell and the services they offer. They provide a […]

We Made Oatcakes At Home From Ingredients in A Bag... As a proper born and bred Stokie one of my favourite things of all time is obviously the Stoke-on-Trent delicacy oatcakes. When I heard you could buy the oatcake mix from The Staffordshire Oatcake Company and have it posted through your door so you could […]

Are you looking for something to do with the kids this weekend FOR FREE? As part of Stoke-on-Trent’s regeneration of the city the seventh British Ceramic Biennial Festival based in The Goods Yard in Glebe Street in Stoke-on-Trent, is a yearly festival that celebrates everything to do with clay and ceramics with commissions from local […]

Shopping Local Makes A BIG Difference Have you heard the phrase when you shop local an actual person does a little happy dance? We approached local businesses in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire and created a promotional video to show how much it means to a local business owner when someone spends money with them. […]