We're excited to announce that the May edition of COGNEWS Monthly is now available. It's still advert-free, and with a bumper 28 pages this month, there is something to interest everyone. If you wish to obtain a printed copy, you can find it at: A & C Stores - Froghall Road Cheadle Bargain Booze - High Street Cheadle Cheadle Library - High Street Cheadle Fresh Produce Cheadle - Tape Street (Access via Tape Street Car Park) Post Office - 3 Shopping Centre (Tape Street Car Par

Community and voluntary organisations, and parish councils, are being invited to apply for funding to support practical projects that make rural areas more attractive, accessible and welcoming. Staffordshire Moorlands District Council’s new Rural Regeneration Fund will help pay for small community-led projects that improve the experience of visitors and enhance the quality of life for residents such as: Improvements to public information boards, interpretation panels, and s

Wellspring Methodist Church, Cheadle 6th May at 2pm Donation £2 Wellspring Methodist Church is hosting a fundraiser event to support the Cheadle and District Food Bank and is inviting anyone who is interested in the vital work of the food bank to come along. Light refreshments will be available, and Diane White, the project manager for the food bank, will be the guest speaker. If you regularly donate to the food bank or are interested in their work in our local community, you

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Cecilly Brook volunteers Anne Beardmore & Adrian Paddocks setting up for Nature in Your Neighbourhood On the 16th of April 2026, the exciting Nature in Your Neighbourhood Project officially began at Cecilly Brook, in Cheadle. This is part of a five-year project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund to monitor habitat health and how much boosted biodiversity benefits local people and the planet. The lottery grant of £752,000 started in 2024 and includes partners such a

Cheadle Town Council met in their Leek Road Chambers at 7 pm on the 7th of April, 2026. The main item for discussion was a report regarding a meeting that had taken place between the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor (both district councillors), the chief executive of the district council, Andrew Stokes, and Cllr Paulette Upton to discuss potential asset transfers that could take place as part of the reorganisations, which will result in the demise of the district council next year. St

Moneystone Quarry | Reprofiling of Whiston Hall Golf Course | Cotton Solar Farm and the Preservation of the Caldon Tramways | Whiston Action Group & Churnet Valley Conservation Society | Could You be a Parish Councillor? Update 26th April 2026 In Staffordshire Moorlands we are blessed with some of the most beautiful countryside in the world, Cheadle has been heralded for many years as the gateway to the Churnet Valley. It's not just beautiful it's important to us al

"You've been Cogged!" is a peek into someone else's world. It's something the team at COG has the opportunity to do on a regular basis, and hearing those stories, appreciating the work and life of the person, celebrating them even, is something we're honoured to be able to do. We've worked together to create a new segment focusing on the role individual people play in their local communities, often unheard but essential for the mechanism to work, just like the humble COG. We

Arts programme OUTSIDE has awarded 30 Creative Community Commissions to artists, community groups and organisations across the Staffordshire Moorlands. The successful funding applications, totalling over £24,000, were selected by OUTSIDE’s advisory group and youth advisory group made up of local residents, and will support a wide range of arts activity to take place over the next year in the district’s towns, villages and rural areas. Funded projects span all kinds of art for

Local businessman and Team Cheadle volunteer Paul Keeling is planning to take part in the London Half Marathon. COGNEWS caught up with him after a hard training run on Sunday morning (5th April 2026). His mother, 71 years of age, has undergone a successful open-heart operation, and as a token of thanks to the wonderful team that treated her, he is planning to do a sponsored run. He has already managed to raise £350 before the event. We wish him the best of luck and hope he co

Last week we caught up with Reform Party Candidate Lee Bentley, a Cheadle man born and raised to find out what his plans are for Cheadle if he's elected in the Cheadle West Ward By-Election on the 16th of April. The conversation flowed here's what we learned about Lee. Lee told us that he's been married for over thirty years, with two grown-up children, and both he and his wife have worked in the care industry for most of their careers. He's been a manager for residential hom

We're excited to announce that the April edition of COGNEWS Monthly is currently being distributed to stores. If you wish to obtain a printed copy, you can find it at: A & C Stores - Froghall Road Cheadle Bargain Booze - High Street Cheadle Cheadle Library - High Street Cheadle Fresh Produce Cheadle - Tape Street (Access via Tape Street Car Park) Post Office - 3 Shopping Centre (Tape Street Car Park) South Moorlands Leisure Centre - Allen Street Cheadle Wooliscrofts Butchers

Wishing you and yours a pawfect Easter! from the COGNEWS team. Thank you CC for creating this lovely spring image of NEWSHOUND all ready for his Easter celebrations! Easter Greetings! - Created 3rd April 2026

Wanted at Cheadle Food Bank. Here is the list of food bank shortages for this week and we thank you for your continuing support.

On Thursday, 19th March, at the Guild Hall, Cheadle, a small group of residents was treated to a free event provided by The Friends of Cecilly Brook and Hales Hall Pool. It was a talk given by Jody from Baddeley Green Hedgehog Rescue Centre. She described how hedgehogs help to increase biodiversity and are our garden friends. Hedgehog Facts | Hedgehog Babies | 5 Things We Can Do for Garden Hedgehogs | What to do if you spot a hedgehog in daylight | Rhian's Story

On behalf of everyone who has benefited from having a mum, a mother figure, a dad who did mum's job, etc., we'd like to say a big thank you—with heartfelt gratitude. Mothers are not perfect; you lot don't come with a manual, and she/he never received any training or even a warning label! Mums are just like you: imperfect, unsure, figuring it out as they go along, and yet somehow managing to achieve awesomeness without really understanding how or realising that they have. For

Following the government's announcement to empower ordinary people to enhance their communities, small meetings have begun between local people keen for Cheadle to be improved. One resident told COGNEWS that "we've lost so much. Years ago, we had a cinema, indoor and outdoor markets, and a thriving town centre." While some things can't be reinstated and new needs have emerged, Cheadle certainly needs the investment and improvement a connected community can bring. To be a part

A lucky Leek resident has won the jackpot in the Staffordshire Moorlands Community Lottery. The winner, who wishes to be identified only as Kevin, won the top prize of £25,000 in a recent draw. Describing it as a “shock at first,” he said he chose to play the Community Lottery because: “The principle of supporting causes that are more locally based to the area I live in is something I like the idea of. In this way, I know financial support is directed to my local community, w

Dougie Mac Hanley Superstore, Etruria Road, Hanley. Saturday March 14, between 9am and 5pm. Brides-to-be can pick up their dream wedding dress for less at a special wedding dress event being held at a Dougie Mac shop. The Hanley Superstore is holding its first wedding dress event where it will be offering a range of brand new and sample dresses, in a selection of sizes, from just £30, as well as bridal accessories. The new dresses, with tags, typically retail between £800 to

Festive residents in a Stoke-on-Trent street have raised nearly £30,000 for Dougie Mac. Each year, families living in Bromsberrow Way, Meir Park, dress their homes with Christmas lights and decorations to raise money for the hospice. The cul-de-sac – known locally as ‘Christmas Street’ – attracts thousands of visitors from Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire every year, with some people making it part of their Christmas tradition on Christmas Eve and even Christmas Day. Ov