This is just a flavour of the events that are happening in the region over the next year. Many of these events provide volunteer opportunities for our students, credited work experience and some organisations become partners in our research. The Peak District is the most popular national park in Europe and provides a great laboratory for our  field visits as well. So see the link if you want to know more about our courses in Events Management and Tourism Management or visit us on an Open Day.

• AED Charity Ball at the Moat House Stoke on Trent 16^th April   TEL 01785 472224 being organised by some of our Level 6 Events Management students
• Sandon Hall Spring Fair 23 and 24^th April some more of our students involved here
• Bakewell Food Festival 30^th April and 1^st May
• Tideswell Food Festival 30^th April
• Staffordshire Day is 1^st May – first ever Staffordshire Day, you can download a kit for your own event
• Newcastle under Lyme Jazz and Blues Festival 28-30th May includes Courtney Pine students usually volunteer here
• Hot Air 2016 Stoke Literary Festival 9-11^th June 
• Dovedale Arts Festival 10^th to 12^th June (occurs every two years)
• Iron Man Staffordshire June 12th 
• Eroica Britannia (my favourite festival) is back in Bakewell 17-19^th June
• Ride Staffs Cycling Festival 2^nd and 3^rd July students involved here this year
• James Bay is playing Cannock Chase 8^th July 
• Buxton Fringe festival 6 to 24 July 
• Rewind Festival 5-7th August Capesthorne Hall Cheshire
  80s stars including Marc Almond, Adam Ant, Rick Astley, Go West and many more
• Stone Food and Drink Festival 30 Sept, 1 and 2^nd October lots of our students will be working on this again
• Global Entrepreneurship Week at Staffordshire University 14^th to 20^th November – organisers Prof Jon Fairburn and Clair Hameed

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If you are reading this from abroad here is a guide for how to get to Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire