Connections for Connectors

Connections for Connectors is back at The Dudson Centre on Tuesday 3 November, starting at 10am. It's a supportive sharing session run by VAST, aimed at anyone working in social prescribing, care navigating or community connecting roles across Stoke-on-Trent. If your day-to-day depends on connecting people with the wider VCSE sector to help them get better health and wellbeing outcomes, this is your crowd.

The format is built around the people who've been there before. Each session features at least three speakers showcasing VCSE-led services, and the themes they cover aren't picked at random — they're drawn from feedback gathered in the previous year's planning sessions. So, the services on display are the ones the community has actually flagged as priorities. Around that, there's informal networking and time for Q&A, which is where the real value usually lies: chatting with other people doing similar work and finding out who's doing what across the city.

It's also a hybrid session, so you can join in person at the venue or tune in online via Zoom if you can't make it into the city that morning. The Dudson Centre is on Hope Street, ST1 5DD, and it's free to attend. If you're working in one of those connecting roles, it's a good chance to see what's out there and meet the people behind the services.