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City council helps businesses create apprenticeships
Stoke-on-Trent shared £63,000 with 15 businesses and organisations in the city last year to help them create 37 new apprenticeships.
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Trading standards team investigate underage sales of disposable vapes and alcohol
Trading standards team investigate underage sales of disposable vapes and alcohol
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Interest-free loans for businesses to cut bills and energy emissions
Businesses in Stoke-on-Trent can now get an interest-free loan to help them cut their energy bills and carbon emissions.
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Stoke-on-Trent Trading Standards seize counterfeit football shirts
A total of 178 fake football items were found, including tops, strips and tracksuits.
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Closure order served by council on Stoke-on-Trent vape shop
Following investigations by Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s trading standards team Suli’s Vapes will now be closed for a minimum of 3 months.
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Start-up secures new business grant through city council’s UKSPF funding
A start-up business has secured a grant from a new scheme to help kick-start the organisation and invest in its people.
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Apprenticeship Levy helping to boost the city’s skills pool
As part of its drive to create more apprenticeship opportunities for local people, Stoke-on-Trent City Council has provided almost £100k of funding for apprentices at local engineering firm KMF.
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Thousands of cigarettes seized in major crackdown land culprits in court
More than thirty thousand packets of illegal cigarettes worth more than a hundred thousand pounds have been seized following an investigation by the City Council Trading Standards team.
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£10,000 of illegal vapes, tobacco, and other products seized by trading standards officers
Trading standards officers are continuing work to protect residents by confiscating a substantial amount of illegal vapes and tobacco.
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Stoke-on-Trent named as one of the best places to be an apprentice
Stoke-on-Trent has been named as one of the leading locations in the United Kingdom for the take-up of apprenticeships.
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Crackdown continues as illegal vapes sold to underage shoppers
Three local traders under investigation as Trading Standards officers carry out under age test purchasing of vapes.
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Stoke-on-Trent businesses can ‘fly high’ with new start-up grant scheme
Stoke-on-Trent start-ups are being given the chance to ‘fly high’ with a brand-new business grant scheme.
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£220,000 in grant funding to support the city’s tourism economy
Work to support Stoke-on-Trent’s visitor economy has been given a £220,000 boost as Stoke-on-Trent City Council has today (Wednesday, October 11) launched a new grant programme.
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Stoke-on-Trent organisations awarded £487,470 to support local businesses
Two local organisations have been awarded a share of £487,470 to support local businesses as part of the wider UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) programme to back projects in the city.
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Intelligence-led investigation success with over £80k of counterfeit cigarettes found
The counterfeit cigarettes were discovered in a self-store unit in the Hanley area.
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Home Office makes long-term commitment to Stoke-on-Trent
The Home Office has reconfirmed commitment to Stoke-on-Trent with plans for a long-term base in the city.
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Organisations encouraged to apply for share of £6 million UKSPF cash
Businesses, organisations and community groups across Stoke-on-Trent are being invited to apply for a share of £6 million government funding.
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New prospectus outlines how local organisations can access UKSPF cash to benefit the city
A prospectus outlining how organisations can access government funding to spend on projects to benefit the city has been launched today (February 14).
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Triple celebration for Unitas
A repair and maintenance company which has successfully carried out more than 400,000 repairs since 2018 is marking three huge milestones in 2023.
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Hundreds of jobs on the way as Home Office sign lease for new base in Stoke-on-Trent
Hundreds of jobs are on their way to Stoke-on-Trent after the Home Office signed a lease for a new base in the city.
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Etruria Valley Link Road and Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone celebrated at major event
Two major milestones have been celebrated at a key event marking some of Stoke-on-Trent’s greatest achievements.
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Two shops under investigation after selling vapes to underage children
Stoke-on-Trent City Council teams organised a day of test purchases at premises across the city this week.
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Shop selling pre-loved items up and running thanks to cash boost from Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Shop selling pre-loved items up and running thanks to cash boost from Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
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Significant national investment in arts and culture organisations welcomed by city leaders
City leaders have welcomed news that Arts Council England is to more than double the number of local arts and cultural organisations being supported through a significant national investment programme
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council launches ambitious Visitor Economy and Cultural Strategies
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has announced ambitious plans to shape the tourism and cultural offer of the city, through two new strategies
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City council continues to crack down on shops selling vapes to children
Stoke-on-Trent City Council Trading Standards officers’ latest exercise to ensure shops across the city are correctly asking for identification from under-age customers, has resulted in three premises
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City Forum attracts leading figures from UK art and culture scene
Leading figures in UK arts have today (Friday) spoken at an event to celebrate and strengthen the significance of culture in the future growth of Stoke-on-Trent.
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£100m ‘lifeline’ funding has helped city businesses survive and recover from Covid-19 pandemic
Businesses across Stoke-on-Trent have benefited from a total of £100m in crucial funding to help them through the paralysing impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Local leaders urge businesses to become ‘Be The Future’ employers
Local leaders urge businesses to become ‘Be The Future’ employers
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Plans approved for £60m Stoke-on-Trent levelling-up project The Goods Yard
PLANS to turn a prominent industrial site in Stoke-on-Trent into a vibrant new neighbourhood have been given the green light.
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International developers to hear how Stoke-on-Trent is leading the way in its Levelling Up opportunities
Stoke-on-Trent’s Levelling Up initiatives are already delivering results, with ready-made opportunities for developers and investors, a global real estate conference will hear today (Wednesday).
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Help local good causes and win prizes this spring
Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s online lottery is offering the chance to support local good causes and win bumper prizes in time for the spring.
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Recipients of Stoke-on-Trent Community Renewal Fund announced
Organisations who were successful in applying for £2.6m of government funding gathered to celebrate the launch the Stoke-on-Trent Community Renewal Fund.
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A consultation event is being held on plans for the Etruscan Square development in Stoke-on-Trent city centre.
Residents & local businesses are being urged to have their say on the landmark scheme, which made headlines in November when it received £20 million in backing from the Government’s Levelling Up fund.
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Levelling Up successes ‘give confidence to national leaders and investors that our city delivers’
City leaders have praised successes in attracting Levelling Up funding and support as giving confidence to national decision-makers and investors in Stoke-on-Trent’s ability to deliver.
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Stoke-on-Trent Recovery and Growth Grant
Businesses across Stoke-on-Trent can apply for grants of up to £10,000 – giving them further support to get through the coronavirus pandemic.
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£150,000 fund to help people in Stoke-on-Trent this winter
Voluntary and community groups across the city are being given the opportunity to apply for a further £150,000 in funding to help them continue delivering services throughout the winter season.
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Launch of Stoke-on-Trent Levelling Up Prospectus
More than £620million of potential investment opportunities across Stoke-on-Trent have been launched to investors – showcasing a bold and exciting range of opportunities for investment & redevelopment
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The name for the new multi-million-pound city centre redevelopment has been revealed.
Etruscan Square, which will incorporate a new conference centre and event space...
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Nearly £100,000 funding awarded to help those most in need over Christmas in Stoke-on-Trent
Nearly £100,000 has been awarded by Stoke-on-Trent City Council to help those most in need over Christmas in the city.
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New grant scheme aimed at repairing and enhancing buildings in Longton
Owners of historic buildings in Longton town centre can get help to repair their properties and bring them back to life as part of a new partnership scheme launched today.
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Further support available for Stoke-on-Trent businesses affected by Covid-19
Businesses across the city are now set to receive a further grant to help them through the coronavirus pandemic, under phase five of the ‘Additional Restrictions Grant’.
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New partnership formed to drive forward city’s plans
A new partnership has been forged to drive forward plans for Stoke-on-Trent.
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Four-fold increase in city centre visitors and £6m in additional support grants to Covid-affected businesses
Visitors to the city centre increased by a factor of four on the first day of non-essential retail stores reopening earlier this month, local data sources have revealed.
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A further £2 million pounds paid to 418 local businesses
Stoke-on-Trent City Council yesterday (February 25) paid out £2,389,561 to businesses across the city.
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Council welcomes £2.8m from Government’s Getting Building Fund
City council leaders have welcomed the £2.8 million cash injection from the Government’s Getting Building Fund to deliver jobs and skills and support the economy across Stoke-on-Trent.
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Stoke-on-Trent open for business with a return to the city centre by shoppers and work on the Smithfield development increases
Shoppers have returned to Stoke-on-Trent’s town centres and the city centre for the first time in three months as the unlocking of the High Street got under way across England.
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