WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED A SANDFORD AWARD! Our amazing Learning Team here at Middleport Pottery have been awarded the Sandford Award. The Sandford Award is a standard of excellence in education & learning programmes in heritage sites, museums and galleries across Britain. Middleport Pottery is the only venue in Stoke-on-Trent to be announced as a 2026 winner, making us only venue in Stoke-on-Trent to receive this award since 2013. Amanda Phillipson, Sandford Award Lead Assessor said “Middleport Pottery offers pupils a unique opportunity to learn about a craft and art form that has been at the heart of the site for more than 130 years. The combination of hands-on activities, factory tours and heritage tours helps to foster a strong sense of local pride among pupils from Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding area, and this is achieved successfully. The value of learning about the past in the very place where history was made, while traditional pottery-making processes can still be seen in action today, cannot be overstated. Through enthusiastic delivery and memorable first-hand experiences, pupils leave with a deeper understanding of their local heritage and a genuine sense of pride in the achievements of their area.” WELL DONE TO OUR AMAZINE TEAM – WE ARE PROUD OF YOU! To find out more about our Learning Programme please email [email protected] #sandfordaward #leaning #middleportpottery #middleport #stokeontrent #staffordshire

31st October Halloween Theatre Night – A Fright in the Museum Arrive: 6pm, Start 7pm Tickets: £18 We are bringing the dead to life for a special instalment of our popular Don't Go Into The Cellar theatre nights! For one night only, spend Halloween in the presence of vampires, ghouls & Egyptian mummies in this one-man theatre show, written and performed by Jonathan Goodwin, and adapted from classic terror tales by H.P. Lovecraft & others. Tickets: re-form.org/heritage-buildin… #middleport #middleportpottery #stokeontrent #staffordshire #theatre #halloween