For the last few years, Stoke-on-Trent City Council has distributed the Household Support Fund across Stoke-on-Trent. Ensuring this has reached the most needy and vulnerable has involved creating innovative schemes that have enabled local groups and organisations to distribute the funds.
Our ‘Silicon Stoke’ agenda continues to go from strength to strength, and building on our slot in the Innovation Zone at this summer’s LGA Conference, I was asked to submit an article for the latest LGA ‘First’ magazine.