Are you retired or approaching retirement? Want to know what help is available? Come along and talk with helpful local organisations.

Meet the police officers, dogs, volunteers and emergency responders working hard to keep them safe each and every day across the county. Lots in store for everyone in the family to enjoy and entry is completely free.

If there’s any young aspiring police officers in the making in your family, they’ll be able to sit in a police car or on a motorbike, talk to the officers serving in their neighbourhoods and speak to the specialist teams about what they do each day to protect the public. Our brave police dogs will also be there alongside their specially-trained handlers, including demonstrations on live incident scenarios, drills from our police cadets, arena performances, children’s activities and, of course, food and drink stalls.

Parking isn’t available on site, so we have arranged a park and ride service, costing £3, that can be purchased in advance of the event for families wanting to leave their vehicles at the Staffordshire County Showground. A double-decker bus will be running all day to bring visitors to and from each site.

To book your park and ride ticket in advance, visit: Staffordshire Police Open Day for all the family - Park and Ride Tickets, Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite

Create your own butterfly effect: citizens and environmental statistics
Join the ONS and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on at for an introduction to environmental statistics – from measuring air quality, recycling, and climate change concern, to learning how you can play a part by taking part in citizen science, like the Big Butterfly Count.

It’s more important than ever to understand what’s happening to our natural world. By collecting and analysing lots of data, we can closely monitor the changes that are happening to the environment and create statistics that make a difference – and you can play a part in this too.

This online event for beginners is free to join with plenty of opportunities to get involved and ask questions through Slido. Please share this event with friends, family, or colleagues. We look forward to seeing you on the call!

Come along to our regular COG meeting where we'll be joined by the NHS to discover how best to connect with urgent and emergency care.

COG will be launching our Plastic Free Community Program & you can find out more about Nature in Your Neighbourhood and what the changes to the Governments housebuilding plans could mean for the town.

Wellspring will be revealing their exciting plans for new indoor and outdoor community spaces for Cheadle.

If you have any questions or concerns about rural crime in your area, you can ask the team during their online chat. If you can't make it, don't worry as you can submit your questions in advance and they'll be answered on the night.

Would you like to discuss something with the COG team? You can book a one to one, face to face or zoom meeting.

Members of the public are welcome to attend.

Find out the latest COG activities, share your organisational updates and meet other members. Members will recieve an email invitation each month