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2025 at The Portland Inn Project!
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A few weeks ago our team came together for a couple of away days to reflect on our work last year and share personal goals for our roles, in line with our mission!
Thank you to our team, neighbours and funders for all your work, contributions and your support.
Our Easter programme has got off to a brilliant start and we’re so excited to be in the final chapter of building work.
Can you believe we’ve done all this from a shipping container and temporary office?! A warm space soon for us all feels dreamy - let alone under floor heating 🤯💛✨

Thank you to our neighbours, volunteers and team w

Thank you to our neighbours, volunteers and team who contributed and supported the last couple of days sessions towards #TheNeighbourhoodPact - and a huge thanks to Kirrin for leading this project (and Nettle!)

We are writing a Radical Safeguarding Policy for our organisation with our neighbours and the last couple of days have provided huge insight from neighbours’ perspective. We have discussed what safe and unsafe feels like in our neighbourhood - and begun to share ideas for an ethos around safety for our building.

Swipe to the end to see an illustration drawn by a neighbour during the session 💛

PS while writing this post, a neighbour knocked on with a bag of ginger, fresh turmeric, lemon and thyme for a cold - a beautiful act of care to end the last two days ✨✨✨

✊Reminder! DEADLINE April 10. 👉Just one PDF

✊Reminder! DEADLINE April 10.
👉Just one PDF with 3 examples of your work and a cover letter response to the 3 questions from our Youth Board!
🙂Click the link in our BIO for all info!
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➰We are looking for a graphic designer or illustrator in the West Midlands to collaborate with our Youth Board as part of a small project to create a visual identity for the Youth Board and campaign materials for an upcoming youth-led social action project in our neighbourhood.
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This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside young people who are passionate about making change in their community. We’re looking for a designer or illustrator who values collaboration and can work with our young people to turn their ideas into a bold, authentic, and engaging visual identity. This new social action campaign will amplify youth voice and address issues identified by the board. The designer will play a key role in helping bring this vision to life.
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✍️Deadline April 10
🤝Project May-June
👉Fee : £1750 (anticipated approx 5 full days work in total across the project)
Plus – across the project :
£150 materials
£100 expenses (if you are coming from outside of Stoke in the West Midlands and need more budget for travel, we will support this!)
🌍 Location: IN PERSON sessions with us in the neighbourhood – Hanley, Stoke On Trent

How to Apply: Please send one pdf that includes the following:
1. A response to the following 3 questions from our Youth Board (600 words total) :
A>What motivates you to be a graphic designer/illustrator?
B>Why would you like to do this project with us at the Portland Inn Project Youth Board?
C>How can you help us to make our project successful and get our ideas across?
2. X3 examples (description and images) of relevant work (particularly collaborative or community-based projects)
📩 Send in ONE PDF to REBECCA@THEPORTLANDINNPROJECT.COM by 10 April at 12pm

LINK IN BIO FOR MORE INFO! (Scroll to bottom of the team page on our website)

PIP staff will short list from the applications, members of the Youth Board will select which applicant they want to work with from the short list.

Spring Day yesterday was beautiful — even the su

Spring Day yesterday was beautiful — even the sun showed up ☀️

Huge thanks to everyone who made it special: bike fixing, Hook a Duck by @vastvolunteering, sunflower planting with @msdmeanar, biodiversity hunt with Anna F, skills mapping with Rebecca and Kerry, the first Youth Board swap shop (15 swaps!) + food from @hubbfoundation. We also planted a plum tree for Steve who recently passed ❤️

#easterholiday