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An update on the building from our contractor! 🌞✨👌✊🌻 Have a lovely weekend all!

🌿✨ Happy Friday everyone! ✨🌿 We’re so

🌿✨ Happy Friday everyone! ✨🌿

We’re so excited to kick off our very first Gardening Club session with @msdmeanar tomorrow! 🥳🌱

🗓 Saturday
⏰ 1–3pm
📍 The Pippin Area

Come and join me and Deb for a relaxed afternoon on the grass 🌼 Whether you’re green-fingered or just fancy getting stuck in, everyone from the neighbourhood is welcome!

🌦 The weather is looking mild, but please dress for the outdoors just in case.

💚 No need to bring anything — just yourselves!

We can’t wait to see you there 🌸🌿

#GardeningClub #CommunityGarden #GetOutside #GreenSpaces #theportlandinnproject

What do you get when you combine 👉A giant ritz

What do you get when you combine
👉A giant ritz cracker gong
👉A social club
👉A skateboard Park
👉A community cinema
👉A canteen where ppl make the food together and sit and eat together
👉a huge library
👉A smoking area
👉A luscious roof garden
👉A building where all spaces are the gallery - to stage interventions, exhibitions and performances with 24 hour access and no judgement of if you want to work day or night
👉a luscious roof garden
👉a gig venue and night club
👉All the art facilities to print, paint, film, perform!
👉studio spaces with massive windows
👉THAT ARE ACTUALLY WARM and fully accessible!
What do you get?!!!
An Art School for Stoke On Trent!!!
It was a total pleasure to host @emerrrhhhh and @ames_pennington_ who shared their stories from Emma setting up @theotherma and Ames studying @islingtonmillartacademy ✊🌞💛 “ @theotherma was built from the rubble of austerity. What can we build from this rubble here tonight?” And OMG did the artists, organisers, teachers and organisations of Stoke deliver!
What a brilliant space to reflect and dream. We know @theportlandinnprojectcic offers an alternative space for creative learning - and its so exciting to think about how this can grow in our future building with our neighbours and art community 💛🌞✊✨✨✨
Huge thanks to Emma and Ames our team for supporting such a rad and dreamy evening with this great crowd 🤸🏽‍♀️🤸🏾🤸🏾‍♀️

Join our team at The Portland Inn Project! Role :

Join our team at The Portland Inn Project!
Role : Studio Manager
Organisation : The Portland Inn Project
Location : Stoke On Trent, UK
Contract: 0.6 FTE (3 days per week)
Salary:  £29,000 FTE (Full Time Equivalent)
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Deadline : May 18, 2026 6PM
Interviews : May 27, 2026
Position Start : As soon as possible
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At The Portland Inn Project, we are passionate about the impact of arts and culture in community development, and we’re looking for a Studio Manager who shares our passion for people-led change.
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This is an exciting opportunity to be a key part of a growing and dynamic organisation, where your work will directly impact our local community.
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You will have the chance to help shape and sustain the future of our new studio in collaboration with our team and neighbours. You will work with a creative and dedicated team and contribute to the development of a trailblazing cultural centre that serves the needs and aspirations of the people of Stoke-on-Trent.
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The Studio Manager leads the day-to-day running, development and delivery of the creative studio and workshop provision at The Portland Inn Project (PIP), with a particular focus on clay and ceramics.
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As the studio is currently in development as part of a wider capital project, a key focus of the role in its initial phase will be to support the set-up of the space - establishing systems, processes and working practices that enable its safe, efficient and sustainable long-term operation.
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Click the link in our BIO for full Job Description
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Deadline : May 18, 2026 6PM
Interviews : May 27, 2026
Position Start : As soon as possible
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How to Apply:
Please send a CV and details of two references, along with (max 1000 words) details of how you match the job specification and why you would like to work with The Portland Inn Project.
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Email this in one PDF to REBECCA@THEPORTLANDINNPROJECT.COM with the heading STUDIO MANAGER.