1000 Lives community champions and partner organisations meet at Network events for mutual support.
Stoke 1000 Lives Community Connection Events
With our Know Your Neighbourhood Funding for Stoke 1000 Lives, we are holding monthly Community Connection events hosted by different organisations in communities around Stoke on Trent.
These events bring like-minded people together who care about our communities. At the events we share ideas and find out how to make a difference together. The events are for everyone. We want to make sure you feel welcome.
- Meet people and share experiences of volunteering and social action.
- Find out how to get involved!
- Share information, experiences, skills and resources!
- Join in and have fun!
The next event will be hosted by MAC, at Fenton Community Hall on Wednesday 6th March from 10am to 1pm. Lunch and refreshments are provided.
We had events hosted by Middleport Matters in December 2023, B Arts at their Climate Cafe in January 2024, online on Zoom in January 2024 for the Great Winter Get Together, and a Raising Voices Chat for Change event hosted by Birches Head Get Growing at the Bridge Centre in February 2024.
Got It Want It events
At every event we create an online Got It Want It wall, and have talks and group discussion to share our know-how, skills and stuff!
With All the Small Things we organised regular Community Share Network events for Totally Stoked in 2022 and 2023.
In 2021, for Volunteers Week, we held two online events.
We organised the events by working together with people from VOICES of Stoke, Expert Citizens and All the Small Things CiC.
In 2023 we plan to organise events together – at least one face to face indoors and one outdoors, and one online, to include more people.
On the 2nd June 2021 the Big Workshop Day had 11 really interesting workshops.
Read all about the workshops and download the information on the Big Workshop Day page.
On Friday 4th June 2021 we held a Big Thank You Celebration event
We heard 10 personal stories from people about their own experience as volunteers or of people they know who are doing amazing things to help their communities through COVID.
We had music, art work and poems shared. The feedback people said included:
- Very inspiring morning, we have an amazing community!
- This has been a lovely way to celebrate and see each other…thank you! 🙂
- Thanks everyone for a lovely Big Thank You
- Thank you for sharing and celebrating us all. creates a joyous feeling x
In the past 10 years we have had events about Food, Stories of community action, Digital media skills, Funding, Planning community events, Five ways to wellbeing, Evaluation, Volunteering, and Community Learning.
We have held events in Bentilee, Burslem, Shelton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke town, Blurton, Sneyd Green, Meir, Hanley and Middleport.
Celebration events are open to everyone. We invite people to nominate community champions. In 2013 we had a celebration event just for young people.
Here are lots of photos of the events. Scroll down to read more.
Past 1000 Lives Events
The last in-person 1000 Lives Event was the Your Network Your Community Event in November 2019. Click the link to read more.
The 1000 Lives Big Workshop event was held in December 2018. Click the link to read more.
The Big Community Conversation at Staffordshire University in May 2018 was all about sharing our stories of community action. We talked about what research we want to happen in Staffordshire to find out more about health inequalities. We celebrated over 60 people who were nominated as community champions.
The 1000 Lives Events Team
Lynne Ball is the lead facilitator of 1000 Lives events.
If you would like to know more about 1000 Lives events or to join the events team please contact Lynne.
Email 1000livesnetwork@gmail.com
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