Bankeyfields community site

The Bankeyfields community website is a brilliant example of a highly localised website helping to connect the community and it has many features that local residents groups might want to follow:

- discussion forum, featuring a great big debate about the roundabout at Goldenhill. Since Stoke is packed with confusing road systems, this is a great taste of Stoke culture!
- regular news updates with an RSS feed so it can be fed to other sites, like this one
- events calendar with space for organising
- reports of problems - hopefully council wardens are keeping an eye on the site.

Although the architects of the site have built it themselves using Drupal, all of these tools can be found free or very cheaply online and people can chip in to help whenever they have a bit of time (and of course internet access). It's great to see such an active community site in a corner of Tunstall. It takes a long time and hard work to build up support for websites like these, so hopefully Bankeyfields will provide inspiration to others.