The next issue of Local Edition will be out on April 4th. If you have any articles, updates, information or advertising requirements, please get in touch before Tuesday next week. If you have any email lists with information about your organisation or business, please do add me to it: clare @ localedition.org.uk
There are lots of exciting new projects being developed as Social Media CIC finds its feet as a social enterprise and the excellent contributors of Local Edition find new directions for their talents. I wanted to update you on a couple of them.
One is Stoke Sounds, www.stokesounds.co.uk, which is led by Steve Dean and Simon Bamford. After just a few weeks, it is packed with high quality writing and photography, showcasing talent from across the region. We have had really positive feedback from local musicians and are exploring new ways to help people and bands connect. We're also working on a launch party in August. If you would like to subscribe to updates by email, there is a box on the website.
The second is Illuminate, which is an award from Social Enterprise West Midlands. For this we will be working with Social Enterprise North Staffordshire, Voluntary Action Stoke and Bizfizz, plus any other social enterprises or community groups or organisations that want to be involved and will be running a campaign in Local Edition to promote social enterprise as a business model and a way for people to contribute to their communities while still making a living. There is an email list for anyone who wants to be involved in this, so if you are interested please email me to be added to that list.
There is more, so keep an eye on the website for more announcements.
No update from me is complete without a hint, so I'll just say that sponsorship and advertising is vital to our continued survival as a social enterprise creating projects to connect people and (we hope) to thrive. The financial support provides a framework for a growing network of volunteers who really make the projects happen. We give the newspaper out on market days and have direct feedback all the time on how much people enjoy reading it and how they learn a lot about what is happening in our local communities from it.
- Clare-Marie White clare @ localedition.org.uk
So a big thank you to all of you who have been so supportive with your money and your time!
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2 comments:
Hello there.
I would love to work with you.
I write music reviews for Keele University's newspaper The Concourse.
I'm not talking money or anything there.
It's just a passion I would like to share.
I go to many gigs but as I'm a student it is difficult to go everywhere in the Stoke area.
I've been to the Sugarmill recently to see a band called 'The Seconds' and I would like to talk about them.
These four lads from Stoke know each other from high school and have been playing for a few years now. They managed to get the headline of the Sugarmill on March 20th and it was a massive success.
Their music is indie/alternative and really appreciated by the audience. The lead singer Matt has got the charisma of Liam Gallagher and the middle class hero attitude of Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys. Their music is very catchy and the audience already know their songs and enjoyed singing along to them. I go to the Mill quite a lot and it's the first time I've seen it like this. There were people from 14 to 50, all of them clapping and tapping along to the panache of this band. The Seconds are also one of the finalists or Battle of the bands in Keele University, competition they already won last year in Blackpool and are most likely to win in Keele this year.
Definitely a band to watch out for in England soon.
Please get back to me.
I would love to go to gigs in the Stoke on trent area and do reviews about them for you.
I've got a lot of spare time and music is a real passion.
My e-mail is : highway-61-revisited@hotmail.com
Thanks,
Charlie
Re: Dimensions - the meeting today with councillors was very positive. We now look forward to the staff at Dimensions being given the chance to implement some of their fantastic ideas to take the centre forward.
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